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NATION, Page 22Grapevine
READ HIS LIPS -- OR ELSE. Chicago's Mob boss, Joe Ferriola,
has passed the word that the "street tax" bookies pay to stay in
business and in one piece will double from an average $1,000 to
$2,000 a month. Ferriola, reportedly about to be indicted on
racketeering and other charges, apparently needs the money to pay
his lawyers.
BENNETT'S BIG BATTLE. Since it wouldn't look right for the
commander of the war against drugs to be in thrall to a
habit-forming substance, drug czar William Bennett spent a $700
week in a West Virginia resort to learn to just say no to his
two-pack-a-day cigarette habit. A lot of fruit, gum and lollipops
later, Bennett pronounced the experience "character building." At
press time, it had been 13 days since the czar's last smoke.
ALL FOR OLLIE. Back in 1983, New Mexico businessman Terry Reed
filed an insurance claim for the theft of his $33,000 Piper
turboprop. After the plane turned up in a Little Rock hangar rented
in Reed's name, federal prosecutors charged him with insurance
fraud, and he is facing trial. Reed, a former military-intelligence
man, blames the caper on Oliver North, who wanted the plane for
supplying aid to the contras. Reed says the plot was blown when
Ollie's partners in a Mexican arms-export company (set up by Reed
on North's behalf) panicked.