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Even so, the potential for widespread harm prompted demands that something be done about paraquat, notwithstanding the fact that marijuana itself is illegal. In Washington, Senator Percy called for a temporary halt to Mexico's marijuana spraying (but not its poppy spraying; the poppies are used to make heroin). Said he: "The U.S. Government has not fulfilled its responsibility to stop poisoning our own citizens." Dr. Peter Bourne, White House special assistant for health issues, indicated last week that he was urging Mexico to switch from paraquat to some less toxic marijuana spray. Also under consideration: coloring sprays...
...happened to the people he went to college with and the people he played in Sha Na Na with. Most have gone on to careers--doctors, lawyers, professor, owners of apartment buildings. Some of those who stayed with the group seemed to have fared worst--one died of a heroin overdose, another had a nervous breakdown...
Since then he has seen quite a few changes and made fine, weird, wired rock-'n'-roll music out of all of them, no matter how bizarre or diverse-high school memories and heroin jags, sweet romances and violent one-night stands, soirées with Warhol's underground crew and cruises through the lowlife. There has been one constant throughout. That gun is still drawn, and likely loaded. Danger is what Lou Reed's music has always been about. And that makes it classic, vital rock 'n' roll...
...generative force behind the Velvet Underground, a band notable in the era of peace, posies and good vibes, for laying down rock music that virtually throttled the listener. Some of the Velvet's music is still among Reed's finest work, including a lengthy threnody called Heroin that is as devastating a drug song ("I'm goin' to try to nullify my life") as anyone has ever written...
...accusations against Moisés Torrijos, now Panama's Ambassador to Spain, went back to 1971, when two Panamanians were arrested at New York's Kennedy Airport carrying 155 lbs. of heroin. A federal grand jury subsequently handed down a sealed indictment?which the Justice Department unsealed last week?charging that Moisés had helped to arrange the smuggling operation. Along with the indictment, antitreaty Senators cited a four-year-old, 20-page Senate intelligence committee report, also released last week, which said that "some sources" had testified that President Torrijos "knew about" drug trafficking by his brother and other Panamanian...