Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students bank robbing revolutionaries? "No," he answered, "I have two daughters in college and they're not revolutionaries." A precarious friendship with Mayor White after the Hemenway incidents, a nation-wide wave of radical bombings, a timid Boston citizenry, afraid to go on the streets at night, a soaring heroin problem, a dead herocop, a police department that wants to bust some heads, and two daughters living right in the midst of the enemy! Commissioner McNamara broke all rules on pre-trial publicity and ... blew his cool...
...dope and music were, and they came to cash in. Some estimated the average daily floater population of Cambridge as above 4,000. People working at Project Place estimated by the end of the summer that one out of six street freaks sitting at Forbes Plaza was on heroin...
...agents two weeks ago helped to break up the largest smuggling operation on record. Acting on American-supplied information, French and Swiss agents arrested two of the ring's three members in Nice and Geneva. Since 1965 the smugglers had slipped an estimated $500 million a year in heroin into the U.S. by secreting the white powder in washrooms of U.S.-bound jets, in banana crates, in imported autos, and sometimes in sealed cans labeled as fish. Meanwhile, in Lyon, French police arrested two American smugglers and seized the small plane in which they intended to fly drugs...
...effort has centered mainly on Mexico and Turkey, where the poppies that are converted into morphine base grow in abundance, and on France, where gangsters in "laboratories" around Marseille refine crude morphine into heroin, which is then smuggled into the U.S. The U.S., for example, has given Mexico $1,000,000 for the purchase of five helicopters, three light aircraft and other equipment to be used specifically to detect and catch violators. Dogs have been trained to sniff out marijuana. Since last October, the Mexican army has sought out and destroyed a total of 1,450 acres of poppy fields...
...Thomas George, 44, was accustomed to sell such sweet delights at a neighborhood park in The Bronx. But the New York City police suspected him of peddling an illegal variation of the dreamsicle. Last week a patrolman staked out George's truck and arrested him for allegedly selling heroin to a teen-aged customer. Police claimed that the Good Humor Man also had 81 horse-race betting tickets and eight more packets of heroin in his truck. Who is left whom little children can trust...