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...school had always assisted police in drug investigations and would continue to do so. Fairleigh Dickinson's President Peter Sammartino declared that "no institution has the right not to cooperate with any law-enforcement agency." They have good reason to cooperate. Last week U.S. Narcotics Commissioner Henry L. Giordano reported that arrests for use of marijuana have doubled since 1965. One cause of the upswing is "increased traffic among college-age persons of middle or upper economic status...
...Bureau's new chief, Henry L. Giordano, seems more enlightened than his predecessor; nevertheless, a change in official attitudes toward marihuana is unlikely unless serious opposition crystallizes. The Leary case should be noteworthy because Leary's lawyers have announced their intention of disproving the assumptions on which marihuana legislation now rests. They may, in fact, be able to convince the court that getting high on pot once in a while is less harmful to body and mind than boozing it up. Then, perhaps, the control of this interesting drug--and surely there will always be control--may be based upon...
...world has both favored and feared the philosophers' answers. Thomas Aquinas became a saint, Aristotle was tutor to Alexander the Great, and Voltaire was a confidant of kings. But Socrates was put to death, and Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake. Nowadays, Historian Will Durant has noted, no one would think of doing that-"not because men are more delicate about killing, but because there is no need to kill that which is already dead...
Controlling the torrent of narcotics traffic into the U.S. is the job of a seldom-seen band of 295 agents bossed by Bureau of Narcotics Commissioner Henry Luke Giordano, 49, a tough veteran of 22 years with the bureau and an ingenious undercover operative. Last week a House appropriations subcommittee released testimony from Giordano, who described some of the triumphs and perils of his adventurous colleagues. Items...
...morphine base. The ex-mayor made the delivery-accompanied by 20 Turks armed to the teeth. When the agent and Turkish police got the drop on the crooks, they tried to shoot their way out. After a furious gun battle, six men, including the ex-mayor, were arrested. Said Giordano: "Very few cases in Turkey end up in other than gunfire...