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Dark Habits: a chanteuse brings her boyfriend to her Madrid apartment, where he ODs on heroin and dies. What Have I Done to Deserve This?: an illiterate woman has quickie sex with a muscular student in the shower stall of the kendo academy where she scrubs floors. Matador: a beyond-gorgeous woman picks up a stranger, makes violent love, then stabs him to death with her hatpin. Law of Desire: a young stud is directed through some steamy autoeroticism by an unseen older man. Shock the bourgeoisie? The opening scenes in Pedro Almodovar's films seem designed to shock...
...getting to them in a way they can understand." Despite the specter of AIDS, the number of addicts is still rising. At drug treatment centers run by New York City's Beth Israel Medical Center, 13% of the patients currently seeking treatment had begun shooting heroin in the past two years. "Given the information that's out there, that's pathetic," says Dr. Stanley Yancovitz, director of clinical AIDS activity at Beth Israel. As gays have grown more cautious about sex, intravenous drug abuse has become the dominant mode of AIDS-virus transmission. New York State expects...
While the Mafia fed the world's drug habit, the problem initially did not seem urgent in Italy. In 1975 Parliament passed one of Europe's most liberal drug laws, which allowed individuals to possess an unspecified "modest quantity" of narcotics -- even heroin and cocaine -- for personal use. The legislation was hard only on dealers: they could be sentenced to 30 years in prison...
...scourge has hit home. Italy is ravaged by an epidemic of drug addiction more widespread and lethal than anywhere else in Europe. The country has the largest number of addicts on the Continent: an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 are hooked on heroin alone. So far this year, 700 Italians, mostly young people, have died from overdoses -- another tragic record -- with the highest death tolls in industrial centers like Milan and Turin. Says Milan Mayor Paolo Pillitteri: "The problem has exploded this year. The quantity of heroin and cocaine on the streets is enormous." Every day, he says, special...
...Geneva, the U. S. comes under political and legal fire. -- A case for opening talks with the P. L. O. -- One Palestinian family' s struggle demonstrates why the intifadeh burns on and on. -- A flicker of opposition introduces democracy to a session of the Supreme Soviet. -- Italy' s great heroin scourge...