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...past twelve months, the feds have captured 14 vessels destined for New England carrying a total of 82 tons of marijuana. Most of the pot comes from Colombia, Jamaica and Mexico, and it is usually transported on small boats from southern waters (although two years ago a light plane flying grass from South America was seized after landing in Bedford, Mass...
...attack on the excesses of a few of his senatorial critics than in its often strained and flawed defense against the most serious charges. Those charges focused on his great and persistent overdrafts at Georgia's Calhoun National Bank, and his frequent use of the bank's plane for personal trips when he was the president or chairman, from 1963 to 1974. Lance went too far, mawkishly equating his plight with that of victims of governmental oppression abroad, the human rights martyrs. No one, after all, has an inalienable right to a high Government job. But he struck...
...decades of moviemaking. Women, with a few notable exceptions, have been background music. The reason is not simply that Paul Newman and Robert Redford make a lovely pair, cuddly though they are. It is a matter of social realities and society's perceptions. A male actor can fly a plane, fight a war, shoot a badman, pull off a sting, impersonate a big cheese in business or politics. Men are presumed to be interesting. A female can play a wife, play a whore, get pregnant, lose her baby, and, um, let's see ... Women are presumed to be dull...
Upon leaving Government, Eckstein found himself in great demand as a speaker and consultant to business. In one two-day period, he jetted to Chicago, Denver and San Francisco-and concluded that "there must be a better way to disseminate economic data and forecasts." It was on the plane that he conceived the idea of putting his econometric model and other data on a large central computer that clients could tap into...
Lance's family and campaign bank accounts show significant overdrafts; he apparently secured two loans with the same stock as collateral; he may have used funds to secure personal loans, and he used his bank's plane indiscriminately. This is certainly not a record to be proud of. Lance consistently ignored the interests of his depositors, violating sound banking practices and probably the law. His dealings with the Comptroller's Office investigating him raises additional questions about his integrity...