Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last February, Plainclothes Patrolman Frank Serpico and two other New York City policemen knocked at the door of a suspected Brooklyn heroin pusher. When the door opened a crack, Serpico shouldered his way in only to be met by a .22-cal. pistol slug crashing into his face. Somehow he survived, although there are still bullet fragments in his head, causing dizziness and permanent deafness in his left ear. Almost as painful is the suspicion that he, and perhaps his partners, may well have been set up for the shooting by other policemen. For Serpico, 35, has been waging...
Skezag (a slang term for heroin) is a relentless portrait of three junkies who shoot up in front of the camera and drift off into their heroin fantasies of incoherent hostility and depression. Before they do, Skezag records a long conversation between Film Makers Joel Freedman and Philip Messina and a smooth-talking hustler named Wayne, who claims that he is not really addicted. Two friends of his eventually enter the claustrophobic scene: Sonny, quiet and morose, and Angel, who talks a political line. Casually and inevitably they all take heroin. Returning to the ghetto, they realize anew they have...
Tempting Buy. Drugs are rapidly becoming as great a threat to American forces as the enemy (TIME, March 1). During a sample period last year, military investigators found that confirmed or suspected heroin-connected deaths were occurring at a rate approaching one daily. Marijuana accounts for three-quarters of G.I. drug offenses in Viet Nam, but cheap (1/36th U.S. cost), extremely pure Laotian or Thai heroin is a tempting buy for men seeking temporary escape from the boredom and terror of war. It is less easily detected than pot. Moreover, G.I.s have developed the disturbing myth that if smoked-"snorted...
There are major political implications to the heroin problem. One of Saigon's leading opposition papers, the Tin Dien, asked sarcastically: "Who wants to kill this regime? The rulers or the Communists?" The fact that some of Thieu's supporters are implicated in the heroin trade does not mean that the government either condones or encourages the illegal trafficking. Nonetheless, the paper pointed out that if Thieu failed to cope with the heroin scandal, it would be a major defeat for his regime. There is also considerable speculation that Hanoi may be facilitating the flow of cheap heroin...
...heroin scandal only heightens already tense relations between Washington and Saigon. After the mauling of ARVN troops in Laos, many South Vietnamese are blaming the U.S. for sending in their troops to do an American job. "At a time when relations between the two countries have sunk to an all-time low," reports TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Jonathan Larsen, "the heroin scandal ticks away like a time bomb in the corner." Since politicking is already beginning for next October's presidential elections, the heroin smuggling will clearly be a major campaign issue...