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Spencer decides to test Esteva's patience by hijacking a dope shipment. He succeeds, and the take is 300 kilos of cocaine. Just how he is going to sell it back to Esteva becomes the main focus of the last third of the book...
...ordered his staff to keep the rebels' cause alive after Congress banned U.S. support in 1984 and 1985. He carefully monitored the contras' fortunes, asking questions about troop strength, supplies, battlefield activities. He welcomed contributions from one foreign leader and lobbied another head of state to expedite an arms shipment...
Reagan was briefed "dozens" of times on the contras' on-the-ground progress and on the Administration's efforts to sustain the movement, McFarlane said. Occasionally, the President became directly involved in providing assistance: when Honduras blocked a shipment of arms to the contras in October 1985, McFarlane said, Reagan contacted Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova and persuaded him to release the weapons...
...closer to reality this month when Procter & Gamble dispatched a truck from its Cincinnati headquarters to the Food and Drug Administration in Washington. Its carefully guarded cargo: 30,000 pages of documents detailing tests of a new cholesterol- and calorie- free fat substitute that P&G calls olestra. The shipment included a petition asking the FDA to consider approving the substance's use in deep- fried foods, oils, shortenings and salty snacks...
...together a private network to take over the delivery of arms to the contras after Congress had $ passed its ban. Just as he was getting his group of ex-military officers and CIA men together, Secord asserted, North called on him in November 1985 to rescue a shipment by Israel of U.S.-made arms to Iran that had run into snags in Portugal. That led to some quasi-diplomatic assignments, meeting with Iranian Middleman Manucher Ghorbanifar to hear his proposals for the exchange of U.S. weapons for American hostages (or "boxes," as Ghorbanifar termed them in a particularly repulsive code...