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...increasing volume--and violence--of the drug trade. In Miami customs officials seized a $119 million 747 jet belonging to Avianca, the Colombian airline, after discovering that it was carrying more than 1,000 kilos of coke, worth $600 million on the street. The contraband was hidden in a shipment of 32 boxes of cut flowers. The incident marked the 34th time in five years that illegal drugs have been found arriving aboard an Avianca plane. Meanwhile, in the Mexican narcotics center of Guadalajara, an agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was kidnaped, apparently by drug dealers. Hours...
...point, the 1,500 men of Colombia's U.S.-supported antinarcotics squad persevered in their search-and-destroy missions and, for a time, scored one spectacular victory after another. In early December, for example, they intercepted more than 550 kilos of high-grade cocaine, packed and readied for shipment at a rambling ranch known as Villa Julia, and flushed it down a sewer in nearby Medellin. Four days later, in northern La Guajira province, squad members came upon 1,054 kilos of pure coke that had been stashed in lunch boxes, leather pouches and even official-looking CARE packages...
...risk of a leak, Walde bypassed Stern's top editors and took the information upstairs to Wilfried Sorge, assistant director of Gruner & Jahr, and Jan Hensmann, a member of the board. In the months that followed, the small group privy to the secret gathered for "reading hours" as each shipment of the black, imitation leather-bound diaries arrived. As their excitement grew, Heidemann's estimate of the number of extant volumes more than doubled. Meanwhile, in a small room near Stuttgart, Forger Kujau was laboring furiously, filling ordinary classroom notebooks purchased in East Germany with facts cobbled together from history...
...supermail is shattering old ways. In the past, far-flung customers of the L.L. Bean mail-order company waited as long as nine days for their merchandise to arrive. This Christmas season, though, Bean will guarantee shipment of its maple syrup, Chamois Cloth shirts and other items in just four days via Federal Express for an extra $7.50. Says John Findlay, Bean's senior vice president: "There's too much at stake at this time of year to make our customers wait...
Federal Express, though, now faces hungry competitors who have turned the business into a delivery-truck version of Cannonball Run. The battle pushed down Federal's average price for an overnight shipment from $26.29 in 1981 to $19.36 this summer. Many of the rivals have copied Federal's formula. In 1981, Emery built a $60 million hub in Dayton and assembled a fleet of 67 planes. Airborne constructed its hub at an abandoned Strategic Air Command base in Wilmington, Ohio. The U.S. Postal Service has entered the field with its special $9.35 express mail service. In fiscal...