Word: smuggler
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...itinerant sorcerer and healer who travels to a remote village and falls victim to the dark powers that have supported him in his trade. The House Friend features a young man in a Warsaw cafe listening to an older man recount his amorous adventures with married women. The Smuggler describes a visitor with some books to be autographed who pays a call on a writer in his New York City apartment and reveals, with hardly any prodding at all, some secrets...
...ambulance from nearby Rio Grande City arrives for the wounded man. The other captured smuggler is taken off in a truck. Laurel issues new orders to his men, then reflects on the night's events. "I don't like it when the shooting starts," he says. "Your luck has got to run out sometime...
Those who play along are well cared for. Steven Kalish, a convicted U.S. drug smuggler who was the chief witness against Noriega in the Tampa indictment, says he personally delivered at least $900,000 in bribes to the general in 1983 and 1984. In exchange, says Kalish, Noriega gave him a diplomatic passport, a multimillion-dollar letter of credit and safe passage for hundreds of thousands of pounds of marijuana...
...period and much of it presented in raw chunks with minimum narration. For an upcoming hour on the city of Miami, for example, CBS cameras follow, among others, a Latin real estate agent tooling around town in his limousine and drug agents fruitlessly combing a suspected smuggler's boat. "The aim," says Executive Producer Andrew Heyward, "is to let the viewer experience the story firsthand as it unfolds, the way reporters...
Three weeks ago the U.S. made its largest sale ever of a single confiscated item -- a red 1963 Ferrari racer, one of only 32 of the special twelve- cylinder model in existence. Federal prosecutors claimed that a slain narcotics smuggler bought the Ferrari with drug proceeds ($345,000 in cash carried in a knapsack). He subsequently gave the car to a Connecticut mechanic for services rendered. The feds seized the car and, when the mechanic was unable to prove that he had no reason to suspect a crime connection, agreed to give him a mere $135,000 as a settlement...