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...hear. Immediately we head out for the car. It is 5:00. We have neither the time nor the inclination to stop off at the bog. Its smoldering fires still darken the sky. At 2 a.m. I am on the bus from New York City to Boston, travelling down Amsterdam Avenue; a desolate, devastated area pocked with abandoned tenements. At 6:15 a.m. I am back in Cambridge...
Died. David Oistrakh, 66, Soviet violin genius; of a heart attack while on tour; in Amsterdam. Raised in the musical hothouse of Odessa's Jewish community, Wunderkind Oistrakh rose rapidly through the conservatories and concert halls of the Soviet Union. In the cold war November of 1955, Oistrakh's first Carnegie Hall recital melted American critics. A short (5 ft. 6 in.), pudgy, businesslike performer, Oistrakh produced music with a luminous, flawless tone. In his last years, he grew into a first-rank conductor as well. On hearing of Oistrakh's death, American Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...
...bulk of the Amsterdam drug distribution seems to be in the hands of the small (currently about 2,000), tightly knit Chinese community that the city has had since the early trading days of the 17th century. Unlike the Marseille Corsicans, the Amsterdam Chinese do no processing of raw opium into heroin. That is done in Singapore and Hong Kong, major markets for the opium produced in the Golden Triangle area in Laos, Burma and northern Thailand. Known as "brown sugar" because of its color and texture, this Asian heroin has a purity of only 50%, compared with...
...growing narcotics problem only when it started imposing 20-year jail terms on drug dealers. In The Netherlands the maximum term is four years, but judges usually hand down sentences of only a year or so. Laments Inspector Cor Elbersen, head of the Amsterdam narcotics squad: "The drug traffic came to Holland because the sentences are lighter. I'd like to see stiffer penalties, but I'm tied by the laws of this country...
Those laws may change. Amsterdam has a local population of some 5,000 heroin addicts, and they are creating increasing troubles. Petty crimes, shoplifting and muggings have been more frequent as addicts try to get money to support their habits. Reports of death from drug overdoses have become staple items in newspapers. The city is even beginning to have New York-style gang wars between rival dope pushers. The Rosse Buurt was recently jolted by a daylight gun battle between members of the local Yellow Mafia and a Surinamese heroin dealer. No one was injured, but police found packets...