Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear from the beginning that Shaw was innocent. Garrison's star witnesses were a heroin addict who claimed he saw Shaw and Oswald together once when he was shooting up at the lakefront; a businessman who remembered the details of conversations with Shaw after Garrison's staff hypnotized him; and an accountant who fingerprinted his children every morning to make sure the CIA hadn't stolen them during the night and substituted lookalikes to spy on him. The national and local press gave the trial heavy coverage. Garrison lost and came out looking like a fool...
...local variations. Los Angeles recently had a rash of "smell" testimony after one police officer successfully justified a search by saying that he had smelled marijuana on the defendant. In New York, judging by some recent testimony, ghetto residents often leave their apartment doors open with bags of heroin "in plain view." This allows policemen who just happen by to make arrests...
...inter-office agency, the League of Official Vice and Extortion (LOVE). The League will cut across all departmental boundaries, and unite federal, state and local efforts of similar concern. Tentative plans call for LOVE to operate everything from urban prostitution rings (based on conscription, if necessary) to computerized heroin delivery systems to massive protection schemes aimed at America's largest private institutions. If gasoline rationing is imposed LOVE reportedly hopes to set up a nationwide bootlegging agency to bring illegal but lucrative fuel to all parts of the country...
More acceptable alternatives are hinted at. There is St. Christopher's Hospice in London, where the dying are given "highs" on alcohol and heroin that kill pain and sometimes induce euphoria. There is the Maryland Psychiatric Center at Catonsville, where LSD is used as a kind of rites-of-passage drug, making death less alien while making the last chapter of life more tolerable-or so it is hoped...
...Washington, D.C., black man with a narcotics record was stopped in his car by police, and he showed a driver's permit that the officer knew to be invalid. The man was arrested, then thoroughly searched. Because the police found 14 caps of heroin, the man was convicted of a narcotics felony. A Florida college student was pulled over at 2 a.m. after police saw his car weaving. When he said he had left his license in his dorm, he, too, was arrested, then fully searched and finally convicted for possession of marijuana joints found in a cigarette...