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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Village Other, speak for the counterculture in a zany, raunchy and often obscene idiom. In one issue of the East Village Other, a strip depicts an Army company in Viet Nam. The sergeant's command "Present arms!" literally brings out the arms of the men in his company, heroin addicts all. Later, when all of the men are dead of overdoses -including the sergeant, whose name is, of course, Smack-it turns out that the CIA is the ultimate pusher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE COMICS ON THE COUCH | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...sworn statements buttressed with lie-detector tests, De Louette said that Fournier (the name is an alias) recruited him to smuggle the heroin last December. Using money given to him by Fournier, De Louette bought the camper, then drove to Pontchartrain, outside Paris. There another man delivered the heroin and helped hide it inside the car. De Louette arranged for shipment of the car and flew to New York. After his arrest, he asked for help from a staff member of the French consulate. De Louette did so, he said, because Fournier had given him the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: The French Connection | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...sought an agreement from the French government on the prosecution of Fournier. At one point, Herbert Stern, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, flew to Paris to discuss the case. Relations between the U.S. and France have been strained over drug traffic; American narcotics experts estimate that 80% of the heroin brought to the U.S. is purified from raw opium in clandestine laboratories around Marseille. John Cusack, the chief American narcotics agent in Europe, had criticized the French for protecting hoodlums running the drug traffic in France. The French stiffly replied that the U.S. is looking for a scapegoat on which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: The French Connection | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...significant dissent came from the director of an agency believed to serve as a front for French espionage. In a Radio Luxembourg interview, Colonel Roger Barberot of the Bureau for Agricultural Production Development speculated that the SDECE had used the heroin-smuggling incident to railroad De Louette. Said Barberot: "My conviction is-and some will tell you so officially -that the operation was mounted by a certain number of SDECE ageats in Paris. De Louette had to be got rid of in the United States. It is the sequel of that operation that is coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: The French Connection | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...much for dialogue. Jennifer on My Mind is the saga of the ill-fated relationship born at this moment. Hero Marcus (Michael Brandon) is a footloose heir with a wallet and a head full of dough. Heroine Jennifer (Tippy Walker) is a flighty little psychopath with a couple of nasty habits-bitchiness and dope. After leading Marcus a merry chase from Venice to New York City and back again, she gives him the slip. He returns to the U.S. and settles down in an apartment in New Jersey, of all places, to try to forget. Jenny, by now badly strung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Smack on the Balcony | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

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