Drug smuggling rivals tourism as S Florida’s top business
AP report by Fred Bayles describes a sprawling network of 70 ships and 10 planes seized in the Miami area amid pot trafficking. Beer trucks from Key West and mother ships off Fort Lauderdale illustrate a marijuana trade reshaping the regional economy. Jim Dingfelder of U S Customs notes a chance encounter between smugglers sums up the scene.
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Fred Bayles
Miami
South Florida
Key West
Fort Lauderdale
Florida a prime stop for marijuana smugglers says DEA
The article notes that federal seizures in 1977 reached about 700 tons nationwide, with nearly 500 tons off South Florida. It cites Coast Guard interdictions, a Jose Gregorio seizure worth millions, and critiques tougher laws as needed to curb the drug trade.
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Drug Enforcement Administration
Southeast
United States
South Florida
Florida
South America
Coast Guard
Caribbean
Dingfelder
DEA
Columbia
Jose Gregorio
Bahama
Guajira Peninsula
Yucatan
Yucatan Peninsula
Cuba
Haiti
Mona
Dominican Republic
Puerto Rico
Cutter
Diligence
Key West
Gregorio
Immigration and Naturalization Service
van Diver
At 70, naturalist still pursues elusive birds
Roger Tory Peterson, famed American naturalist and bird watcher, plans to see more than half of the 8,600 species in his lifetime. He has seen about 3,500, will publish a revised Field Guide to the Birds next year, and still seeks the bachman's warbler among about 700 unseen species.
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George Esper
Old Lyme
Conn
Roger Tory Peterson
America
Peterson
King Penguin
Jamestown
N.Y
Audubon Society
Colorado Sunset Law costs more than it saves
Colorado's Sunset Law, first to require agencies to justify existence to the legislature, has cost more to operate than it saves. In its debut year, three of 13 agencies were eliminated, with total annual budgets of 6,810 and review costs of 200,000. The program aims for accountability, not mass abolition, and while some praise oversight, critics note weak political will to shut down agencies.
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Denver
Colorado
Sunset
Rosalie Schiff
Colorado Common Cause
State Athletic Commission
Board of Registration For Sanitarians
Board of Shorthand Reporters
Hospital Charge Commission
Athletic Commission
State Auditor
Board of Mortuary Science
Carl Bledsoe
Bledsoe
Senate
Fred Anderson
Public interest lobby lauds nationwide sunset laws momentum
Common Cause applauds the spread of sunset laws after Colorado first enacted the measure. In two years, 24 states have followed with proposals in many legislatures to require state boards and agencies to justify their existence or shut down.
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Washington
Colordao
Sunset laws spread across states affecting agencies
Betsy Sherman of Common Cause notes happiness with reactions to sunset reviews. States vary in approach as agencies face legislative or auditor scrutiny to prove public service and efficiency. Colorado eliminated three boards in year one, under Craig Barnes's guidance, while other states like Alabama and Iowa debated speed and costs.
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Betsy Sherman
Common Cause
Colorado
Athletic Commission
Board of Sanitarians
Board of
Robert Ray
Iowa
Alabama
Feld the Greatest Showman Keeps Redefining Cirque Spectacle
Irvin Feld, 59, president of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, has watched the circus about 3,000 times in 11 years and plans to see it 3,000 more. He doubled the show in 1969 and envisions a third domestic unit by 1980, while expanding clown training and international circus connections. Feld compares himself to a modern P T Barnum, insists the circus is real, and remains ever-obsessed, promising bigger crowds and bigger acts with talent nurtured from Harlem to Europe. He continues to lead the production as Mattel owns the company.
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Irvin Feld
Feld
Ringling Bros
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Earth
United States
Washington
Chubby Checker
Bill Haley
Nat King Cole
John Ringling North
Barnum & Bailey
Bigtop
North
Feild
P.T. Barnum
Mattel, Inc
Feldian
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U.S. Customs
South
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Antarctic
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Brookline
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Boston
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Texas
Anderson
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Ms. Sherman
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Hawaii
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Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Oregon
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
President Feld
New York
Harlem
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