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...ready. The troops belong to a 2,300-man special force drawn from the best units in the Mexican army. They are carrying out a mission, code-named "Operation Condor," that began last month. Their enemy is an empire where marijuana grows by the acre and the blood-red amapola poppy-the opium plant-flourishes...
Traveling by helicopter, STOL transport and on foot through dense and hidden areas, Hernández Toledo's army so far has arrested 770 people and uprooted or destroyed 1,214 fields of amapola poppies and 419 stands of marijuana on "farms" that sometimes cover 30 acres. But there are at least another 11,000 places to be attacked before the job is completed. The general will do well to obliterate 85% of the dope fields in this annual exercise, since many are carefully camouflaged in the mountains to protect them from the scourgelike troops and from effective baths...
...amapola war is difficult because nearly all the estimated 20,000 peasants of the area are involved in the trade. Small children and women tend the crops, while the men handle the processing and marketing end of the business. Once harvested and processed, the heroin is sent across the border to the U.S. by "mules," or couriers. Sometimes the dope is buried in otherwise legitimate shipments. The drugs also move by air and sea, but it is hazardous to fly into any of 1,800 makeshift landing strips that have been dug out of the mountains. At least 50 hulks...
...kids," says Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst. Last year alone, U.S. officials estimate, 1,200 tons of marijuana were brought across the Mexican line. Only 70,210 Ibs. were detected. Also, the border leaked 20% of the heroin used in the U.S., refined from Mexican Amapola, the poppy, and an unknown amount of U.S.-made drugs such as amphetamines, which can be bought without prescription in Mexico...
...kind of jazz, and it might be your kind, and then it might not. Because too many people get the idea that it's got to be smooth to be good, that you've got to have soft lights and Ray Eberle singing Amapola with a sickly look on his face while all the Pine Manor Promtrotters swoon in droves. If that's what you like then Nick's isn't the place for you, because you'll be saying "Why that's old-fashioned stuff. It's corny, nobody plays that way any more. Give me the Andrews Sisters...