Word: smugglers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tostado found a crack in a corner of the floor, crouched and sucked in the life-saving air. He watched the smuggler's two aides dig at the floor with the spikes. "They ran out of strength, and they were the first to die." Others took up the task, but never completed it. "People started dying, little by little," he said. Desperate for more air, Tostado hacked away with one of the spikes and finally punched through the wood. He dropped to the floor, gulping drafts of air. Tostado was now alive but alone, surrounded by bodies...
...winner is . . . Walter Hill (once a Peckinpah writer) for Extreme Prejudice, which stars Nick Nolte as a modern-day Texas Ranger; Powers Boothe as his old buddy, now a master dope smuggler and chatty amoralist; Maria Conchita Alonso as the woman they both love; and a wild bunch from the CIA or somewhere. Their task is to supply the movie with a little mystery and a lot of obscurantist firepower, enough to drown out conventional logic's objections to a vast silliness...
Police have said they think that the smuggler probably addressed the package to the academic department so it would pass through customs, Lane said. Lane added that the police also said the large quantity of drugs indicates that this probably isn't the first shipment...
They will pack their entire family into the trunk of a smuggler's car and ride for several hours until they reach Los Angeles. They will spend hundreds of dollars for a safe passage just to San Diego. And many will die in the process...
...have smuggled into the U.S. at least 58 tons of cocaine from facilities like Tranquilandia, a massive complex of coke-processing laboratories in the Amazon jungle that Colombian authorities busted in 1984. The Medellin drug barons were also indicted for plotting the murder of Adler ("Barry") Seal, a drug ( smuggler turned informant who was gunned down last February in Baton Rouge, La. Seal was to have been the Government's star witness in the trial of the cocaine kingpins...