Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) bans the transport of the drug over state lines, four states including Indiana and Alaska have already approved the production and distribution of it within their boundaries...
...Starr County drug trade has long been controlled by a few tightly-knit Mexican-American families who own land along the Rio Grande; in some cases, their relatives hold property on the Mexican side. For years they were virtually a law unto themselves. One of the indicted traffickers had even ordered auto license plates spelling out MAFIA. "They don't deal with anyone they don't trust," says Texas Antidrug Official Neal Duvall, "and they only trust family." According to a grand jury report, 10% to 35% of the population of Starr County have been involved...
County law enforcement has been lenient, with no major drug arrests for several years. Sheriff Reymundo Alvarez has only ten full-time deputies, five part-timers and one patrol car, which usually needs jumper cables to get it started, to cover 1,211 square miles. Four of the deputies cannot read or write English. "We can't do everything here," says Alvarez. "We have to escort funerals and settle family arguments and investigate accidents all over the county...
...have a criminal case tried with a jury in Starr County," says Judge Joe Evins, who filled in for 16 months after the impeachment. "I could sense the reluctance of witnesses to testify." And with good reason. Five years ago, a local grand jury started to look into the drug traffic; after two girls who had testified were found floating in the Rio Grande, the jury dropped its investigation...
Roman Stoicism. Morante does not try to account for the carnage of this century. Her characters bleed and fall, or carry on with Roman stoicism, the buffeting of their lives "a natural consequence of being born." The only sustained political argument in the book is given to a drug-addicted anarchist who argues, tautologically, that people would be better if people were better...