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Experts believe that about half of the cocaine entering the U.S. is funneled through Miami. A quarter of all the coke seized by authorities last year came from one bust at Miami International Airport; the shipment would have been worth more than $100 million wholesale. But the business is not strictly urban, and intensified police pressure seems to be pushing big-league traffic north and west from Miami. Last year in New Iberia, La., federal agents found nearly 1,200 lbs. of cocaine in two dozen gunny sacks that were supposed to be filled with cattle feed. Near Santa Rosa...
SURPRISINGLY enough, Barbie led a high-profile existence in his newly adopted homeland. With the generous help of various right-wing military dictators. Barbie obtained Bolivian citizenship in 1957 and soon established a profitable external commerce company-in reality a front for an arms shipment network. The ex-Gestapo officer, appreciated for his contacts abroad, made friends in high places. As unofficial leader of a fairly large collection of exiled German war criminals hiding in Bolivia, Barbie was able to organize his cronies into a sophisticated paramilitary back-up unit for General Banzar, who took power...
Prosecutors termed the shipment from Houston to Libya the largest illegal movement of explosives ever investigated by the U.S. Jerome S. Brower, a California explosives manufacturer and distributor who is an unindicted coconspirator, testified that Wilson, who left the CIA in 1970, said he wanted "as much as I could get" of cyclotrimethylene trinitramine, a plastic explosive known as C4. Brower said he shipped 42,300 Ibs. in 856 5-gal. cans disguised as "drilling mud," a chemical lubricant used in oil-drilling rigs, from California to Houston, where it was loaded aboard a leased...
...years it has been no secret in Western Europe that Bulgaria's secret service has tolerated the shipment of billions of dollars worth of arms from Turkey, much of it for use by terrorist organizations. The new allegations, however, raise fears that Soviet-directed terrorism and subversion reach farther, and with far less restraint, than had previously been believed. Italy's relations with Bulgaria are already badly frayed. But with so much at stake, Italy and its Western allies are prudently waiting for more solid evidence before making any additional charges public. -By Kenneth W. Banta. Reported...
...week sided with the prosecutor's views that greed, not patriotism, had led Wilson to export an M-16 automatic rifle and three pistols from the U.S. to Libya in 1979. It convicted him on seven counts of arranging to transport the guns, samples of a promised larger shipment that later won him a $22 million contract to arm and train Libyan fighters. He faces a maximum prison sentence of 39 years and a $240,000 fine...