Word: crescent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...verse from any of Maurice Sendak's clever, malicious little tours de force--take "Stir it once, stir it twice, stir it chicken soup with rice"--means virtually nothing, and therein lies its charm. Blow it up to the size of the Loeb mainstage, add reddish lights and a crescent moon, choreograph it for 30 people in black lectards, and what have you got? Nothing, Nothing...
...drug bust last week between the Khyber Pass and Peshawar in northwest Pakistan was one of the biggest in history. Yet it represented just a fraction of the exports from the so-called Golden Crescent, an area spanning parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran that produces the lion's share of the world's heroin. The raw material for the drug is grown in 100,000 acres of opium-poppy fields, processed in local laboratories and smuggled out through Pakistan. The Golden Crescent accounts for as much as 90% of the heroin sold in Western Europe and more...
Khan, a specially trained Pakistani customs official, has cultivated a network of informants throughout the Golden Crescent. All of them are smugglers who turned to informing to make more money or to settle old scores. Since moving to Peshawar three years ago, Khan has seized 1,458 kilos of heroin. "I do not feel any sense of elation when we make a big bust," says Khan. "What I worry about is whether my informant's cover has been blown. If it has, then it means we have a lot of time to make...
Khan has no illusions about what can really be achieved. In the Golden Crescent, smuggling and smugglers' routes are almost as old as the Khyber Pass. Says Khan of the prospects for his antidrug crusade: "When the hills disappear, only then can you expect the traffic...
...death and destruction" is cited as evidence of the violation of the supposed "norm of proportionality" in the use of force. Yet it must be noted that many of the initial, unsubstantiated casualty figures have been discredited as being gross exaggerations of the actual total by the Palestinian Red Crescent, headed by Yasser Arafat's brother...