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...poor boy from Hepzibah (pop. 400), W. Va., Samuel Desist had every reason to live down to his patronym. But, setting his sights on an Army career, he enlisted and persisted. By 1962, when he was 39, Sam Desist wore a major's gold oak leaf and was press officer for the U.S. Army at Orléans in France. Desist also acquired a chic French wife, who bore him two sons, and a taste for la vie as it is not lived in Hepzibah...
...know some of the city's first families, the American major soon became a familiar figure at chateau parties and hunts. After the French Ministry of the Interior awarded him the honorific Croix de Chevalier de l'Ordre du Merite Civil for promoting Franco-American relations, Desist's local reputation zoomed along with his popularity. He had found a home. When he retired from the Army last year, Desist decided to settle down near Orléans, and took a job with a metallurgical concern...
Biggest Ever. He did not, it seems, devote all his hours to metallurgy. Last week agents of the Brigade des Stupe-fiants-France's counterpart of the U.S. Narcotics Bureau-showed up at Desist's 14-room home at Saint-Jean-leBlanc and arrested him in connection with smuggling 209 Ibs. of pure heroin into the U.S. The narcotics, worth $2,800,000 wholesale and as much as $100 million retail (after cutting and diluting), had been found in a shack at a Columbus, Ga., trailer court. It was the biggest single haul of heroin ever captured...
...Besides Desist, seven other men and women were arrested, including Chief Warrant Officer Herman Conder, 35, who was recently transferred from Orléans to Fort Benning, Ga.; Frankie Dio, 48, operator of a Miami Beach nightclub and younger brother of Brooklyn Mobster Johnny Dio; and Jean Nebbia, 52, and Jean-Claude Le Franc, 50, both leading figures in France's Mafia-backed dope-smuggling fraternity...
...they want to kill me, let them. I shall die for the nation." His antics prompted ailing President Cemal Gursel, 70, head of the junta that overthrew Menderes, to hint that if Demirel tries strong-arm tactics now or after the election, the military will force him to desist. "We are not a mature nation," said Gursel. "We take many roads, legal and illegal and sometimes dangerous, to exploit the people. I promise that no one ever again will have enough power to make the country turn back to the dark past...