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...wide-ranging report on the global narcotics picture. According to the account, worldwide production of marijuana declined last year by more than 10%, thanks in large part to the war against drugs in Colombia, the leading exporter of marijuana to the U.S. Worldwide production of opium, the base for heroin, slipped by a similar amount, mainly because of a poor poppy harvest in Afghanistan...
...possible in America," Reagan introduced two special guests seated with wife Nancy in the visitors' gallery: Jean Nguyen, 21, a cadet at West Point whose family fled Viet Nam as refugees in 1974, and "Mother" Clara Hale, 79, a Harlem social worker who specializes in the care of heroin-addicted infants born of drug- abusing mothers. The President had scouted both of these "American heroes" himself: he read about Hale in a magazine and noticed Nguyen in a brief TV appearance...
...helping monitor some of the CIA's most embarrassing top secrets, including dirty tricks directed against Australia's Labor government. By this time Daulton was an important man in his own right, in his own eyes: he had established a lucrative trade in cocaine and heroin, living high on the profits and slick-talking his way past a judicial system as indulgent as his parents. Soon, the renegade idealist and the venture capitalist joined forces to foul up the system by selling U.S. spy satellite codes to Soviet emissaries , in Mexico City. What delicious revenge on America's bland malevolence...
Lewis: If a newspaper runs a story saying, "An informed source tells us that Mr. Jones, who has been a hostage in Iran, was actually a runner for the heroin ring," is that right? Should you do that? And if he sues, shouldn't he be entitled to probe to get that name? He's a private citizen. He's not General Westmoreland...
...focused on Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese gangs. Attorney General William French Smith, the lead-off witness, warned that "organized crime has entered a new historical phase-its international phase." Judge Kaufman contended that some of the Asian gangs terrorized their immigrant communities and accounted for fully 20% of the heroin smuggled into the U.S. Said he: "We cannot ignore this threat on American life...