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...growth. In addition to its direct-selling business, second in size only to Avon's in the U.S., Amway owns the Mutual Broadcasting System, the largest radio network in the U.S. (950 affiliates), two 50,000-watt radio stations in Chicago and New York, the Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids and a resort in the British Virgin Islands...
Shortly after his warm handshake with González at the royal palace (González, a nonpracticing Catholic, bowed but did not kiss the Pope's ring), John Paul II spoke at a Mass in Madrid's Plaza de Lima before more than a million cheering spectators, one of the largest crowds he has drawn in any of his 16 trips abroad. Standing beneath a 30-ft.-high cross on a podium draped in white and yellow papal bunting, the Pontiff put forward in exceptionally strong terms his conservative position on marriage and the family. The Socialists...
...snare was set for springing. Last week Hetrick telephoned Benedict to say he would take Pan Am's Flight 442 on Monday from Miami to Los Angeles. He would be bringing the cocaine. Benedict met Hetrick at the airport and drove him to the nearby Sheraton Plaza Hotel. On the way, Hetrick admitted he had brought only 25 of the expected 100 kilos. He would sell this share for $1.8 million. If everything went well, the other 75 kilos would soon follow. Hetrick was being cautious?but not cautious enough...
...Sheraton Plaza's Room 501, a glass-divided minisuite, the C.I. and the ubiquitous FBI cameras were waiting when Hetrick arrived at 4 p.m. Benedict assured Hetrick that the $1.8 million would be in the room shortly. Hetrick said he was "ready to go." It was not until 7:45 p.m., however, that yet another self-styled drug distributor, actually DEA Agent Gerald Scotti, arrived with Vicenza. Hetrick was wary, but in Scotti's briefcase, which was placed on a Plexiglas coffee table, was a vast amount of cash...
...Lorean went directly, and unsuspectingly, to well-wired Room 501 at the Sheraton Plaza. Waiting were the Government's trio: the C.I., Benedict and Vicenza. One of them showed De Lorean a suitcase containing 20 kilos of coke. De Lorean picked up one bag and said, "It's as good as gold and just in the nick of time." Actually it was too late. Only hours earlier, the British government had closed De Lorean's plant in Northern Ireland (see following story...