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Many had witnessed John Belushi's final, drug-filled days in Hollywood, but no one could steer the actor away from his relentless drive for cocaine and, in the end, heroin. Among friends, reports of the comic's marathon binges made his untimely death seem inevitable: another star caught in the darker currents of celebrity...
Suspicions about the sect have circulated since 1979, when California Temple Leader Alexander Kulik was convicted of distributing heroin. He was also accused, with others, of laundering drug money through an investment company, Prasadam Distributors, controlled by sect members. The new questions could hardly have come at a worse time for the Hare Krishna movement in the U.S. (membership: about 3,000). Since the death in 1977 of Founder Srila Prabhupada, the sect has split into mutually hostile factions. The internal trouble was dramatized publicly last fall when a disillusioned devotee bludgeoned the leader of the West Virginia temple, Kirtanananda...
...increased pace of drug smuggling across the border has intensified strains that have existed ever since the U.S. took over half of Mexico's territory in 1848. These days Mexico is producing roughly a third of all the heroin and marijuana consumed in the U.S. It has become a transshipment point for 30% of the cocaine flown into the U.S. from Colombia and further south. Unless De la Madrid acts soon, Washington fears, official corruption, already widespread, will become even more deeply rooted. "How long does it take for drug dealers to penetrate the government?" asks Assistant Secretary of State...
...peddlers in the city's Washington Heights section. Many New York law-enforcement authorities believe that a substantial increase in crime this year might be attributed to the crack epidemic. In May of this year cocaine arrests were up 68% over the figures for May 1985, while arrests for heroin, marijuana and other drugs had dropped. Crack has all but consumed parts of neighborhoods such as Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant and the South Bronx that are primarily made up of poor blacks. Says the Rev. Wendell Foster, a Bronx city councilman: "It's a new form of genocide...
...contradictions in the U.S. stance were evident last week during a state visit by Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo. Did the Reagan Administration press Pakistan to stop producing the more than 100 tons of opium that will reach the U.S. this year as heroin? Not very hard, since the Administration was arranging to give Pakistan a six-year, $4 billion military and economic aid package with no drug-strings attached. President Reagan had other serious matters to discuss with Junejo: Pakistan's reputed effort to produce nuclear weapons (which Junejo denied) and Pakistan's support for mujahedin rebels...