Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practically numb with the wish to be a WASP, to let the Jewishness drain out of him and get a life-supporting transfusion of blue blood. Buddy, just out of high school, works in a summer resort, tries running a roulette game on the sly, is hoodwinked into smuggling heroin for a fat-fingered hood, concocts on his own all sorts of wild-eyed quick-money schemes. The revenue from these assorted enterprises goes partly to help his brother through medical school and into the country club, and largely to buy himself a huge slice of lakeside real estate...
...Casting are currently in Marseille filming The French Connection II, a sequel to the award-winning 1971 dope flick. But as any real narc could tell them, this time they have the wrong location. For the moment at least, the French connection has been largely broken, along with the heroin-processing laboratories on the Cote d'Azur and the Corsican drug rings that ran them. The new center for the European heroin trade is, of all places, the jewel-box city of Amsterdam...
drug and law enforcement officials also fear that Turkey's decision last week to resume planting opium poppies after a two-year prohibition will soon cause another deadly byproduct, "Turkish white" heroin, to appear back on the streets of New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles...
...Administration crusade against the worldwide drug trade. Before Turkey originally agreed to halt its planting in return for a threeyear, $35 million aid program from the U.S., its annual crops followed a trail that led through the processing labs of Marseille ("the French connection") to the U.S. Turkish-grown heroin accounted for fully 80% of the total U.S. supply...
Physically and spiritually depleted, he retired at 26-a heroin addict...