Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office has set up a branch in The Hague. In early August two Canadian students were arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport as they were about to board a plane for Vancouver; in the false bottom of a suitcase they had hidden 6½ lbs. of heroin, worth...
...Brown Sugar." The Dutch connection is not as big or as broad as its famed French predecessor-at least not yet. Until a U.S.-sponsored multilateral crackdown on the international drug traffic began to take effect last year, laboratories in Southern France converted staggering quantities of Turkish opium into heroin for distribution in the U.S. and other countries. Police seizures of as much as 50 kilograms (110 lbs.) of heroin were common. New York detectives two weeks ago captured 165 lbs. of Turkish-derived heroin (street value: $113 million) that was stashed in a shipment of Louis XIII furniture being...
...Amsterdam drug distribution seems to be in the hands of the small (currently about 2,000), tightly knit Chinese community that the city has had since the early trading days of the 17th century. Unlike the Marseille Corsicans, the Amsterdam Chinese do no processing of raw opium into heroin. That is done in Singapore and Hong Kong, major markets for the opium produced in the Golden Triangle area in Laos, Burma and northern Thailand. Known as "brown sugar" because of its color and texture, this Asian heroin has a purity of only 50%, compared with...
Those laws may change. Amsterdam has a local population of some 5,000 heroin addicts, and they are creating increasing troubles. Petty crimes, shoplifting and muggings have been more frequent as addicts try to get money to support their habits. Reports of death from drug overdoses have become staple items in newspapers. The city is even beginning to have New York-style gang wars between rival dope pushers. The Rosse Buurt was recently jolted by a daylight gun battle between members of the local Yellow Mafia and a Surinamese heroin dealer. No one was injured, but police found packets...
...returnees need some professional help in adjusting to civilian life. About 25% of the 800,000 veterans who have sought admission to VA hospitals or have been sent there by authorities have attempted suicide. As many as 26% of the veterans who served in Viet Nam have experimented with heroin and other drugs. So broad are the problems of this troubled minority of the Vietvets that VA authorities have given a blanket name to them: post-Viet Nam psychiatric syndrome (PVNPS...