Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...onetime security guard and a relative newcomer to Texarkana. His troubles began in 1974 when one of the town's leading attorneys, Harry Friedman, staged a country-music concert in back of a nightclub he owned. Nervous state troopers moved in to make a number of drug and liquor collars; Friedman's son was nailed on a driver's license violation, and Friedman himself for interfering with a police officer. Some troublemakers were tossed into Sabo's jail, and the sheriff could not be located to approve bail for hours. In what Sabo claims was retaliation...
...National Institute of Drug Abuse reported that 10 per cent of the Mexican marijuana it examined was contaminated. The defoliant, similar to those used in Vietnam, can cause death--or at the least, very unpleasant high...
When Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, appointed his Morehouse College roommate, A. Reginald Eaves, as the city's first black public safety commissioner in 1974, white critics were quick to charge cronyism. Eaves, a lawyer, didn't make matters easier by hiring a drug addict as his secretary, ordering an $800 love seat for his office and a luxury car for his travels around the city. But Eaves also proved a highly effective and popular official, cutting violent personal crimes by 10% and drastically curbing cases of police brutality...
...likes the way U.S. society is forever jumping on its horse and riding off in several directions (example: "Saccharin would be banned in prepared food and beverages, where the unsuspecting consumer might not know it was an ingredient, but it would be sold as an over-the-counter drug in containers warning that it could cause cancer"). He cannot fathom American Puritanism but admires the national trait of altruism. He cherishes our chronic forgetfulness and blithering unawareness of history (talkshow gabber to ex-Premier Cao Ky of South Viet Nam, who now runs a liquor store in California: "We still...
...peccadilloes escape the attention of officials? Dr. De Corte, who instigated the investigation that uncovered the murders, suggested that there had been a conspiracy of silence about the nun. She had finally been suspended last August and dispatched to a Ghent hospital, where she underwent an unsuccessful drug cure. Someone -police suspect the roommate, who visited her at the hospital-provided drugs during her stay. At a press conference, Dr. De Corte revealed that in January, when she returned unchanged, the geriatric-ward nurses decided to confront the hospital administrator with their growing diary of horrors. "When...