Word: antiopium
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...only place where the U.S. is putting pressure on friendly governments to crack down on the drug trade. But where the drug fight runs counter to other foreign policy objectives, the record is decidedly mixed. Standout example: in Burma the State Department last fall suspended support for Burma's antiopium campaign and ordered the DEA not to deal with Burmese officials. The action was meant to register displeasure with a repressive military regime, but some DEA agents contend that it disrupted still productive DEA-Burmese operations...
...Peiping, the public execution of five opium peddlers last week drew 50,000 spectators. Justifying in Washington the death penalty for dopes in China, Dr. C. S. Mei, director of the largest antiopium hospital in Shanghai, observed that an addict must be cured both physiologically and psychologically. "It takes too long a time and plenty of money," said Dr. Mei philosophically. "It is from this fact that you get the reasoning of the Chinese Government and its application of capital punishment. . . . It is China's only hope of saving the nation from the dope menace...
...stuffed shirts are the Royal Commissioners who include Sir Philip ("Now It Can Be Told") Gibbs, humanitarian Editor J. Alfred Spender and antiopium crusading Dame Rachel Crowdy. But British linen is simply not washed amid cascades of abuse...
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