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...that about 600 tons of opium is harvested each year in the area, most of it in the vast poppy fields of northern Burma. Of this, at least 125 tons is lashed to mountain ponies and carried to the Thai-Burmese border, where it is refined into 90% pure heroin. The 12% tons of heroin thus produced provides about twice the world's demand...
...head. When a group of Thai paramilitary troops set off to capture Khun Sa and cop the reward, they were ambushed by Shan mercenaries. The open clash on Thai soil enraged Bangkok, already under mounting pressure from both the U.S. and Australia to crack down on the heroin trade. Says a Western diplomat in Bangkok: "The Thais finally concluded it was not in their interest to allow Khun Sa to function in Thailand. The domestic and international costs became too high...
...destruction of Ban Hin Taek may disrupt the heroin flow for a while. Thai officials claim they have swept Khun Sa's mercenaries out of Thailand and captured ten tons of guns and ammunition worth $2 million. But narcotics officials admit that the opium war is far from over. Says one Bangkok agent: "The syndicate will start up again. The problem is not supply but demand. People will continue to want heroin and be willing to pay big money for it." -By Marguerite Johnson. Reported by David DeVoss/Bangkok
...only young German film maker to veer sharply from the baroquely stylized work of Fassbinder and Herzog. Four of the five new German films in the U.S. are rooted in headline reality. Christiane F. is based on interviews with a 15-year-old Berlin prostitute and heroin addict that appeared in the newsmagazine Stern. It is a tale to blanch the parental conscience, for here are children barely in their teens who whore, steal, shoot up and, too often, drop dead. Chic-pretty, lipsticked and long-haired, dressed in Annie Hall punk, negotiating puberty on stork legs, Christiane (Natja Brunkhorst...
...accuser, Montuoro, has obvious credibility problems. He has been convicted of possession of heroin and firearms. He has worked near explosives on tunnel-digging jobs for so long that he does not hear well. But jurors tend to believe him. He was a principal Government witness when Sanzo was convicted last June of income tax evasion for failing to report bribes received from another construction company. Claims one federal prosecutor about Montuoro: "What he says turns out to be true...