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In November federal drug officials busted what one agent called “the world’s largest LSD lab,” run from an abandoned missile site near Wamego, Kansas. Indicted as the alleged principals were two establishmentarians: William L. Pickard Jr., 55, deputy director of a University of California drug policy analysis program, an expert on the illegal drug trade in Russia, and a vegetarian, nonsmoking marathon runner with a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard; and Clyde Apperson, 45, a Silicon Valley computer consultant. Pickard obtained personal bail recommendations from both the San Francisco district attorney and a British lord.
The name of the leader of the organized crime family that allegedly controls prostitution in part of southern California, nine of whose members were arrested in October in Los Angeles: Mr. Hung T. Dong. Two University of Nebraska dentistry professors profiled in an October Lincoln Journal Star report: Jeffrey Payne and Randy Toothaker. A Clover, South Carolina, planning commissioner charged in October with lewd behavior toward a child: Mr. Rusty Cockman.
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