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Typically, the big-time operators deal in more than just drugs. After they deliver their opium to smugglers on the Thai border, Lo's huge caravans???often 200 mules and 200 porters, guarded by 600 troops?frequently return to Burma with contraband ranging from trucks and airplane parts to bolts of cloth and auto engines. Lo, says one U.S. official, "doesn't go empty-handed either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NARCOTICS: Search and Destroy--The War on Drugs | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

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