Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says, will no longer tolerate the draft. He also plans to study racism and drugs. With the Army providing "a captive research population," Segal hopes to make discoveries that will benefit the whole nation: "The boundary between civilian and military society is permeable. The soldier who begins using heroin today will be a civilian addict tomorrow...
Filmed in Jamaica and New Orleans, with scenes yet to be shot in Harlem, the movie takes Agent 007 to the fictional island of San Monique, where Mr. Big, the first black villain in a Bond movie, runs a heroin-smuggling ring. There Bond-played for the first time by Roger Moore, star of TV's The Saint -meets a telepathic beauty named Solitaire (Jane Seymour), a black double agent (Gloria Hendry) and the usual assortment of outrageous villains, their seemingly indestructible henchmen and an obstacle course of hazards that would have sent even Superman running for his Valium...
...thefts from the New York City police department's supposedly secure evidence stacks continue at the present rate, there will soon be nothing left to guard. Two weeks ago, Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy announced that 57 lbs. of heroin confiscated in the famous 1962 "French Connection" case were missing from the property-storage room. The following day it was discovered that an additional 24 lbs. were lost. Then last week the abashed commissioner learned that another 88 lbs. of heroin and 131 lbs. of cocaine had been stolen from the police department. Still more losses are expected...
...widow Anna and her attorney, John Meglio, who said: "Joe wasn't the kind of man who would commit suicide." Indeed, mob sources have been saying that Nunziata's death was a "hit," ordered by the Gambinos because they feared the detective might talk about the heroin thefts...
...didn't the police destroy the heroin and cocaine caches? The bureaucratic answer is that evidence must be kept while there is any chance of legal appeals or additional prosecutions in a case. Still, it would seem that the possession of such valuable and tempting evidence as hard drugs called for the most stringent security measures. The property clerk's office is a midden of paper and confusion, where tons of pieces of evidence are stored under the casual supervision of an understaffed force. Incredibly, no inventory of confiscated goods has ever been made...