Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cleaver and Philip Roth, near Joan Baez records. The Sizemores loved John Kennedy and hated Johnson, hate Nixon. Once they alienated all their neighbors when they had a black friend of one of the kids stay at the house for a couple of weeks. He was trying to kick heroin at the time, and wearing an afro before the style was too big in the area...
...Crop. The downtrend of 1973 was a result of Turkey's ban on the cultivation of the opium-poppy plant, which had been the source of 80% of the heroin in the U.S. But last July Turkey lifted the prohibition. Growers planted a new crop this fall for harvest next June...
...European heroin dealers, who had stockpiled their remaining stashes of Turkish heroin in view of the shortage, released their goods in anticipation of renewed supplies from the coming harvest. Despite Turkish pledges to control processing of the new crop, U.S. drug enforcers predicted a serious increase in available heroin on American streets...
...replace the Turkish supplies, Mexican "brown" heroin-a cruder, more cheaply produced variety-was put under extensive cultivation two years ago. Mexican officials have tried to stamp out the traffic, even using soldiers and helicopters to search out illicit crops. Nevertheless, John Bartels Jr., head of the Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration, says that Mexican heroin has become "our No. 1 target...
...financial and human cost of the heroin plague is horrendous. In fiscal 1973, according to Bartels' estimate, heroin addicts required $5.6 billion to support their habit. More than half of that, authorities believe, comes from crime. If DuPont is correct when he says that "we can no longer talk about turning the corner on heroin anywhere," crime is likely to increase...