Word: hashish
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...been taking hashish, I could not have dreamed of this." In the fashionable Los Angeles community of Cheviot Hills, every mail brings bulging sacks of letters to Alex Haley?all of it evidence of the astonishing impact produced by his saga of a black family's tortuous trail to freedom. Haley thinks he knows why Roots touched all America. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent William Marmon, he explained his own theory of the Roots phenomenon and told how he came to write the book...
...ascetic on a fast. Mouth: mocking and self-mocking, with lips shaped for sneers and blasphemies. Dress: black with dazzling white shirt and pale pink gloves-Satan as dandy. Add a setting (thick carpets, low lights, leather volumes of the more decadent Latin poets, the fragrance of hashish everywhere, a black girl coming out of the bedroom like Venus rising from the sea) and voila: the essential Baudelaire myth...
...Bread, Hashish and Moonlight" Qabbani attacks the fatalistic attitude reflected in the other poems. He dispels as an illusion the belief the fulfillment in death can substitute for fulfillment in life. As a result he is forced to dismiss his countrymen bitterly and absolutely...
...discovery of illegal activity by the North Koreans in Scandinavia may be only the iceberg's tip. Five months ago in Cairo, Egyptian officials caught two North Korean diplomats with 400 kilos of hashish in their luggage. A North Korean official assigned to Malaysia has also been recalled after dealing in smuggled goods...
...country at least 4,000 bottles of booze (mostly Polish vodka) and 140,000 cigarettes, which were then given surreptitiously to Norwegian wholesalers for distribution on the black market. In Denmark, the illegal goodies impounded so far included 400 bottles of liquor, 4.5 million cigarettes and 147 kilos of hashish, which police confiscated two weeks ago from two Danes who had just bought the drug from North Korean embassy staffers...