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SENTENCED. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 30, arrested last September for possessing two-tenths of a gram of heroin; to two years of probation, continued drug treatments and 1,500 hours of community service; in Rapid City, S. Dak. The suspended sentence, Circuit Judge Marshall Young told Kennedy, was standard for such a first offense and had "nothing to do with your name...
...growers in the Golden Crescent, which cuts across Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, rushed to exploit the high prices. But when the rains returned to the Golden Triangle in 1980, bumper crops followed, and suddenly growers from Iran to Thailand were saddled with a burgeoning surplus. Prices for high-grade heroin are still falling, as Asian dealers try to undercut one another in a multimillion-dollar scramble for new users. Hong Kong's 45,000 addicts can now shoot up for about the price of a movie ticket, $3. In Malaysia, a fix costs less than $2, no more than...
...Asian nations have been afflicted with heroin. Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are largely free of hard drugs, thanks to firm law enforcement and strongly held traditional values. China, Indonesia and the Philippines serve primarily as transit points for shipment to the U.S. and Europe. Singapore, with its draconian antidrug laws, honest and efficient police force and intensive rehabilitation programs, reports a decline in heroin addiction...
...Pakistan, however, President Zia's measures have hardly disturbed the more than 400 drug dens still operating all along the highway from Peshawar to Karachi. An addict there can order a fix almost as easily as a meal in a restaurant. The nation's heroin trade is further bolstered by Afghan refugees, who peddle the drug to help pay for the rebellion against the Soviet-backed government in Kabul. Western intelligence sources say that the Kabul regime, with Soviet connivance, is also injecting Pakistan with heroin in a deliberate attempt to destabilize Pakistani society. Officials in Karachi have...
...Bangkok last year, but the arrests merely prompted the owners of refineries in the Golden Triangle, which were already overloaded with stock, to market their wares independently. To attract new buyers they lowered prices and peddled their product aggressively in the south, where more than 70% of all Thai heroin users reside. The country's authorities report that they are now catching more traffickers. Nevertheless, as usual in the heroin business, more arrests also mean that pushers have to cut prices and redouble their efforts to find buyers, which in turn increases the number of Asian drug addicts...