Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those at Jackson State and Kent State, where students died--the U.S. bombing and invasion of Cambodia in 1970 will never rank as a popular event in American history. Those leftover sentiments--right or wrong--have shaped the analysis of recent Cambodian history--especially regarding the brutality of Pol Pot--and prevented reasonable assessment. Most efforts to discuss the issues generally reduce to a guilty hysteria which places the blame for all atrocities upon the United States. Guilt may be a justifiable response to the Cambodian invasion but to label it a definitive history is a sham...
...tiny office, reserved for visiting scholars, is a veritable library--lined with books, littered with maps and scribbled notes and piled high with file boxes and dictionaries of every conceivable kind. A cyrillic typewriter sits to one side of his cluttered desk. An American flag stands in the pencil pot...
...stepped-up Louisiana connection is similar to operations in Florida and along the Atlantic Coast: a large "mother ship" from Colombia, the source of about three-quarters of the marijuana entering the U.S., unloads its cargo into smaller vessels, which ferry the pot inland. The many unmanned offshore oil and gas wells in the area serve as excellent rendezvous points. Local fishing boats and the supply boats that serve the oil and gas drilling rigs off the coast are usually used for the ferry operation because they attract no undue attention. Pinched by rising fuel prices and foreign competition...
...October, authorities seized 80 tons of pot on a 100-ft. barge equipped with two conveyor belts for fast unloading. Last month the crew of a Coast Guard patrol craft received permission to fire on a fleeing supply boat, only the second time since Prohibition that the Coast Guard has shot at a U.S.-registered vessel in peacetime. Seized were 70 tons of marijuana; 16 Colombians were arrested...
...Redford of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. "It's hard to beat the cash flow they have. When you rip off 75 tons and don't cripple the group financially, you begin to realize how much money there is in it." Redford and other officials expect the pot smuggling activity to continue increasing in the Gulf Coast area. He adds with a grin: "But we hope to pass it on to Texas...