Word: deas
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Paraquat spraying in Georgia puts the DEA under fire
...week's end the Reagan Administration's latest anti-drug campaign was coming under siege, with both its motives and its methods being questioned by elected officials and citizens' groups. Charging that the DEA was conducting "chemical warfare" against them, a coalition of 400 area residents won a temporary order in U.S. district court barring further paraquat spraying in Georgia's White County, which includes the Chattahoochee. A motion for a similar order was denied in London, Ky., near the Daniel Boone National Forest, where the DEA began spraying Friday. Republican Congressman Harold Rogers, in whose...
...charge that the airborne spraying is not an effective way to wipe out the estimated $10 billion U.S. marijuana crop. Because it is grown surreptitiously, most pot "fields" in the U.S. are actually small plots that are most efficiently cleared by simple uprooting or by ground spraying. For the DEA's first raid, the point seemed true enough. The take from seven small Georgia patches totaling less than an acre was about 60 plants, though the Feds managed to destroy larger amounts in Kentucky...
...they are not harsh and sanctimonious. But the hills are like green breasts and buttocks, heaving perceptibly in his preferred light, that of a young spring morning. The plowshare slices into them suggestively. His best landscapes from the '30s, like Spring Turning, 1936, are votives to the original dea mater: man makes his brown tattoos on that vast pelt, but they will pass, and he and his horses are no more than fleas...
Other Vermonters took a more cooperative view. Insisted Paul Poquette, president of the Vermont Board of Realtors, which provided the DEA with its mailing list: "Anybody who can help uncover drug pushers should." Nonetheless, a DEA official conceded, "The approach could have been more subtle...