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...government is secretly working to develop nuclear arms. Zia firmly denied all such allegations. The Administration refused to press Zia about allegedly widespread human rights violations by his martial-law regime. Zia also insisted that Pakistan, which is the illicit source of an estimated 70% of the heroin coming into the U.S., was "doing its best" to reduce drug trafficking. While Zia's explanations were not always wholly convincing, the timing of his state visit could hardly have been better. Aid to Pakistan will be decided by Congress before Christmas. In order to fulfill its promise of $275 million...
...told her, "Be strong." At that, Warden Pursley gave the cue ("We are ready") to a technician hidden in the next room, and a fast-acting barbiturate came flowing through one of the IV tubes. Brooks yawned, shut his eyes and wheezed. Within minutes, Brooks, who had been a heroin user, was dead from a drug overdose meted out by the Texas department of corrections...
Several contentious issues remain. Zia, a devout Muslim who supports the Arab cause, is troubled by Washington's firm backing of Israel. The Reagan Administration would like Zia to curb Pakistan's opium production. According to drug-enforcement agents, an estimated 70% of the heroin (derived from opium) coming into the U.S. either originates in or passes through Pakistan. But overshadowing all else is Soviet activity in Afghanistan, which has driven 2.8 million Afghans to seek refuge in Pakistan. Says a Western diplomat in Islamabad: "Sometimes Zia's streak of religious fanaticism scares...
...codes, but they seem to have lost some of their glamour. Certain drugs have a fatality about them that cannot be concealed in jaunty language. The comedian Richard Pryor introduced the outer world to freebasing a couple of years ago, and John Belushi died after he speed-balled (mixed heroin and cocaine). Punk language has made a couple of its disarmingly nasty contributions: sleaze (as in, "There was a lot of sleaze at the party," meaning much of the transcendentally rotten) has passed from the homosexual vocabulary into punk, and is headed for mainstream English...
...third grade at the New Lincoln School in Manhattan, a clever sex education teacher showed my class a movie on drugs. In the style of classics like Reefer Madness, the film showed how different drugs were produced, how people could ingest them, and their extremely nasty side effects. Heroin was fashionable at the time, so glistening hypodermics and needle-tracked arms were prominently featured, along with short biographies of celebrities who had died of overdoses. Although the effect of such films on children today has probably been greatly diffused by constant exposure to drugs in all forms...