Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poster, psychedelically colored, shows the Seven Dwarfs, Snow White, Goofy, Minnie Mouse, Cinderella and a naked Tinker Bell, and other Walt Disney characters indulging in what looks like one of the Marquis de Sade's more complicated performances. Meantime, Mickey Mouse is shooting heroin into his arm. In another poster, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Goofy are getting stoned on a water pipe...
...somewhat different kind seem to have become even more useful. From solemn public officials and eager corporations, from newspapers, television (and even, some dare say, from newsmagazines) comes a googol of seemingly definitive and unarguable statistics. They tell us, with an exactitude that appears magical, the number of heroin addicts in New York and the population of the world. By simulating reality, they assure us that facts are facts, and that life can be understood, put in order, perhaps even mastered...
Some 500 hostile young people, many stoned and some flashing knives, rip up fences and storm a stage at the Newport Jazz Festival, silencing the music for nearly 40,000 listeners and causing officials to cancel a scheduled folk festival and a rock opera. The heroin death of one young man and the open drug dealing of others at a Detroit rock concert lead Michigan Governor William Milliken to demand the end of all such festivals in that state...
...Nihat Erim for his "courageous, statesmanlike action." Secretary of State William Rogers told TIME Correspondent William Mader: "The decision may create difficult domestic problems for Turkey, but it was taken in the interest of the international community. When we in the U.S. have so many teen-agers dying of heroin addiction in our cities, we particularly appreciate Turkey's action, and we hope that other nations involved [in opium production] will show the same sense of international responsibility...
...Turkish decision may well prove to be the most important step yet taken in controlling the import of heroin into the U.S. But its lasting effectiveness will depend on the ability of the U.S. to persuade the other major opium producers-notably Burma, Thailand, Laos and Afghanistan-to take similar action...