Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heroin...
...past heroin ("horse") was an overwhelming favorite for stimulating horses to run faster, but heroin had unfortunate side effects and some horses became uncontrollably wild. Today's stimulants are much more sophisticated and harder to detect in the post- race spit and urinalysis, but the penalty for use of stimulants- being barred from racing forever- is so severe that the unscrupulous use other methods to help their horse across the wire first...
Gradual Ban. Partly out of indifference, partly because of some real difficulties, Ankara and Paris have been slow to attack the heroin problem. Under the 1961 United Nations convention on narcotic drugs, Turkey is one of eight countries permitted to export opium poppies for medical purposes. Some 70,000 farmers, most of them supporters of the ruling Justice Party, count on the opium produce for at least some of their earnings. The government pays $5 a pound, though many growers sell part or all of their crops on the black market for as much as five times the official price...
...Frenchmen whose livelihood depends on heroin are not the sort to accept substitutes. They are members of a well-organized Corsican underworld headquartered in bawdy, vice-filled Marseille. Turkish sailors smuggle the morphine base ashore and sell it to the mob's hirelings. They in turn deliver it for the final refining process to secret laboratories, which have been discovered in everything from peaceful-looking stone farmhouses to tenement kitchens. The finished heroin is sold on order to the U.S. underworld...
French federal narcotics squad from keeping the heat on heroin dealers for long. Last summer, however, two things happened that should make drug enforcement a good deal more severe in the future. One was a visit to Paris by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the President's top domestic adviser and the architect of his heroin diplomacy, who dwelt on the subject with law-enforcement authorities and diplomatic officials, including Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann. The other event had an impact imaginable only in a nation that has never had a serious drug problem. In August, two middle-class French youths...