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...miles of deeply indented Florida coastline, through which most drugs sneaked into the U.S. come, and the 2,067-mile border with Mexico, gateway for much of the rest. The smugglers they are up against have almost unlimited funds. "They can afford to lease an entire ranch for one drop," says Marion Hambrick of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Houston. They can also buy the best equipment: advanced fiber boats that elude radar, scuba-diving gear, "voice privacy" scrambler radios and single-sideband transmitters, which are hard to intercept, and light planes that are often faster and have better radar...
Other Presidents have had their Falas and King Timahoes. But since well before their 688-acre ranch became the Western White House, the pet-loving Reagans have been opening their gates and arms to just about anything that barks, meows, whinnies or quacks. The most recent additions to the First Couple's ranch menagerie are three kittens that Caretakers Courtney Trisler and Barney Barnett found wandering outside a Santa Barbara, Calif., supermarket last month. Confident that the Reagans would be happy to shelter the unfortunate felines, Trisler and Barnett toted them up the mountain. Nancy welcomed the cats and, after...
Reagan is currently vacationing on his mountaintop ranch in Southern California. (See related story, page...
Today an estimated 18,000 sons and daughters of America's oldest college will throng to the same location to hear a similar speech. But the president, also one of the most popular in the history of the country, is vacationing at his ranch retreat in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...wreck one of these days, and nobody seems inclined to do much but ask his brother along for the spectacle. The dismal economic reports this week -- slow growth, housing starts down, deficits unabated -- heightened the foreboding even while the politicians celebrated tax reform and Reagan rode horses at his ranch...