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...illegal drugs. Making a similar pitch in Houston, Customs Commissioner William von Raab invited some 65 Texas lawmen to inspect a sophisticated new communications center for coordinating surveillance against smugglers. Alive with radar screens, computers and scrambled-speech telephones, the Blue Fire command post will eventually anchor a "radar picket line" along the porous 2,000-mile. border with Mexico, the passageway for one-third of the drugs entering...
...border, the high expectations raised by Operation Alliance have been belied by the program's shaky start-up. Since the kickoff, there have been few significant increases in the number of federal agents deployed in the Southwest by the Customs Service, Drug Enforcement Agency and Border Patrol. The radar picket line is at least two years from completion, and other promised equipment has yet to be delivered. The Administration has even proposed eliminating promised federal funds for state and local police in next year's budget. "The Government isn't really serious about stopping drugs," charges a veteran Customs officer...
Despite one picket demonstration and the introduction of an outside negotiator, little progress was reached until the union's final meeting with Barnard, which ended less than two hours before the union was to strike...
Commuters along Mass. Ave. from Arlington to Roxbury from 7 to 9 a.m. were greeted by 500 activists spaced at 20-foot intervals holding picket signs reading "Vote Pro-Choice--Vote No on Question...
...film opens stunningly. A blue velvet curtain furls like a stage partition, and in the foreground credits emerge and fade. Bobbie Vinton's "Blue Velvet" wells up, and Lynch gives us a picket fence punctuated by fat red roses. We see random shots of Lumberton, the film's seemingly idyllic smalltown locale. Big-hearted firemen wave in slow-motion, houses and trees and citizens stand their ground. Then a middle-aged man has a seizure watering his lawn. The hose spurts above him with sexual abandon, and a mongrel dog lunges on the misdirected spray. Lynch follows this with...