Word: fourfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Social Costs. The French narcotics bureau has since been increased from 47 to 350 agents. By midyear, predicts Commissioner Marcel Carrere, there will be 40 operatives in the Marseille bureau alone, a fourfold increase. Two drug cops will receive permanent liaison assignments to the U.S., and others will take special training in American cities. In an effort to save itself the high social costs-and the inestimable human ones-that are now taking their toll in the U.S., the government of President Georges Pompidou has taken one other step. It has introduced a bill increasing the maximum sentence for drug...