Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skipper. An initial search revealed nothing. Then, a full day later, the agents suddenly noted that the ship's concrete ballast seemed to be oddly positioned. They attacked the concrete with pickaxes. In the center they discovered a cache that contained 40 plastic bags of pure heroin-presumably processed in the South of France and destined for the U.S. French officials announced that the narcotics haul was the largest in history: 937 Ibs. of pure heroin worth between $180 million and $400 million on the streets of New York City, depending on the extent to which it is diluted...
...London vainly noted that the schoolboy could have received a much more severe sentence. The outraged British found the Turkish court's heavy-handed treatment of the boy difficult to understand. For centuries, Turkish farmers have grown fields of poppies that have become a prime source of the heroin sold in the U.S. Only last June, in response to pressure and financial aid from Washington, the Turks promised to stop growing poppies after the 1972 harvest...
...talking to people as people instead of as sterile percentages, Coles paints faces on the nation's oppressed and allows the full dimension of reality to flower. He is always saying yes-but; yes, the mountaineer is racist but he always qualifies his racism; yes, the ghetto youth takes heroin but he worries about his mother who is old before her time; yes, the ghetto teacher is irritated and irritating, but she also cares deeply...
...Marijuana is not addictive, and the idea that pot smoking escalates to heroin use is "totally invalid...
...Even partial legislation of marijuana (sale and public smoking would remain criminal acts) might cut the use of heroin by taking "the young marijuana user out of a criminal drug-using subculture...