Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were troubles-as when French officials discovered her trying to take $2,260 in undeclared francs out of the country-but that only made her all the more a figure of mystery. Then, last spring, the respected Paris newspaper Le Monde alleged that a suitcase containing several kilos of heroin had been found among the princess's luggage at Geneva airport. The princess denied it all, and so did the Swiss authorities. Le Monde printed a retraction, but the princess pressed a suit for $100,000, declaring that she wanted not money but vindication. A Paris court therefore ordered...
Aside from opium and its derivatives (heroin and morphine), no drug has had a worse press than hashish. The resinous extract from the flower heads of female Indian hemp plants (Cannabis saliva) is five to ten times as potent as bulky, unrefined marijuana. Crusaders returning from the Holy Land brought back the tale that the chief of a Moslem sect used hashish to give fanatical courage to his hirelings before they set out on murder missions. Thus, from a corruption of hashshashin, they added the word assassin to the language. What has since been learned about hashish suggests that while...
...plain but obsessive writer, turned to fiction, he did not swerve far. The subject of Report to the Commissioner is a pretty, blonde New York undercover narcotics agent who gets herself killed in the line of duty -which happens to involve being naked in the arms of a black heroin pusher. The problem is that the fatal shots were fired by another cop, an enterprising greenhorn detective who was not in on the girl's game...
...exciting if preposterous 22-hour standoff follows between the cop and the heroin pusher in, of all places, a Saks Fifth Avenue elevator. Outside, the television cameras roll while the police department brass squirm-and plot their own survival. It is a tribute to Mills' adroitness that he swivels through this awkward and unlikely setup with few slips. (The few mistakes he makes are surprisingly careless: Saks has hand-operated elevators, for example, which would make his big scene unplayable...
What gives the killings a doubly ominous significance is the fact that some Chicago policemen are under federal investigation for their possible connection with the crimes. Some of the victims were believed to be heroin wholesalers who may have been killed for refusing to pay bribes; others could have been slain for stopping payoffs that put thousands of illicit dollars a month into police pockets...