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...Jackson. For about the next 112 years, the FBI believes, Lee's Cleveland operation--and a direct subsidiary in Milwaukee, Wisconsin--handled as much as 10 kilos of Los Angeles cocaine a month. And then around February 1993, investigators believe Q sent representatives--Terry (``Kit'') Cooper and Derrick (``Book'') Slaughter--into the Pacific Northwest to set up a cocaine distributorship in Seattle. The local competition was fierce, so Kit and Book handled less volume: an estimated 4 kilos, or nearly 9 lbs., a month on average for about a year...
...Birmingham. That city was to afford investigators the clearest glimpse into one of Q's distant branches. Following a number of scouting trips to test the local market, an enterprising threesome flew into the city to stay. Two were among Q's suspected Crip affiliates, Horace (``Dink'') Slaughter, 29, brother of Book, and Larry (``Drak'') Neal, 29, both of whom weighed more than 260 lbs. The third was a petite, reddish-haired woman from Long Beach, California, named Renee Stephens. For the team's headquarters, Stephens rented a three-room, $250-a-month apartment in a white-frame triplex...
...standing press members is not enough, a huge press truck carrying an expansive, coarse-looking wooden platform and frame cage is full to the brim with photographers and videographers, milling about on the platform like cattle being taken to the slaughter...
Those of us interested in pursuing careers as college professors, were advised to challenge vested interests only after being granted tenure. I found it (remember I was young) difficult to imagine that the ritual slaughter of the elders would have any appeal whatsoever to the newly tenured, since they would in effect be attacking themselves--now custodians of the sacred grove [academia...
...lesser evil. But the most important issue is, Should we watch unconcerned the emergence of what could be another Khomeini in the world's most volatile region? If the answer is no, then it is high time Western powers took more concrete actions to combat the mad dogs who slaughter innocent people. Governments must realize before it is too late that there is another Iran or Iraq lurking around the corner, and that could spell catastrophe for our fragile world. Samuel O. Adenekan Winson Green, England...