Click2Flicks - Blow - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b><i>"BLOW"</i></p> <p>STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="blow_story_ch2.htm">2. GEORGE AND CARLOS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="blow_story_ch3.htm">3. COCAINE - IT'S NOT CHOCOLATE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="blow_story_ch4.htm">4. COCAINE AND THE COCA PLANT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="blow_story_ch5.htm">5. COCAINE-LACED DRINKS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="blow_story_ch6.htm">6. WHAT DOES COCAINE DO?</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0 height="192"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="blow_story_ch7.htm">7. GEORGE MEETS COCAINE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="blow_story_ch8.htm">8. GEORGE MEETS PABLO ESCOBAR</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="blow_story_ch9.htm">9. GEORGE'S FAMILY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="6"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="blow_story_ch10.htm">10. GEORGE MAKES A DEAL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="blow_story_ch11.htm">11. PABLO'S END</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="blow_story_ch12.htm">12. A GLOOMY FORECAST</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">George,<br> Do you know anything about<br> Cocaine?<br></i> <p>Carlos Lehder to George Jung<br> Danbury Prison<br> 1974</b></font></p></div></b> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">It was a fateful meeting that would lead to dire consequences for many people. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/art/jungp.jpg" target="_blank"><b>George Jung</b></a>, doing time for smuggling marijuana, met <a href="http://www.sptimes.com/News/112899/photos/turn3/RIVAS.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Carlos Lehder</b></a>,* doing time for smuggling cars across the US/Canadian border. </p> <p>Within a few years of their discharge from Danbury Correctional Facility, Jung and his cell mate Lehder (who was also serving time for marijuana possession) found a way to do business together. Carlos had a plan: To flood America with cocaine which would destroy the political and moral structure of the United States.</p> <p>As Carlos liked to say: Cocaine was the atomic bomb, and he was going to drop it on America. </p> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size=3>*In the movie "<a href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXWV.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" target="_blank"><b><i>Blow</b></a>,"</i> Diego Delgado is the Carlos Lehder character.</p></font> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="blow_story_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>