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...inter-office agency, the League of Official Vice and Extortion (LOVE). The League will cut across all departmental boundaries, and unite federal, state and local efforts of similar concern. Tentative plans call for LOVE to operate everything from urban prostitution rings (based on conscription, if necessary) to computerized heroin delivery systems to massive protection schemes aimed at America's largest private institutions. If gasoline rationing is imposed LOVE reportedly hopes to set up a nationwide bootlegging agency to bring illegal but lucrative fuel to all parts of the country...
More acceptable alternatives are hinted at. There is St. Christopher's Hospice in London, where the dying are given "highs" on alcohol and heroin that kill pain and sometimes induce euphoria. There is the Maryland Psychiatric Center at Catonsville, where LSD is used as a kind of rites-of-passage drug, making death less alien while making the last chapter of life more tolerable-or so it is hoped...
...conspiracy involves narcotics it is a different story. Chile has recently been voluntarily expelling a group of its own citizens who allegedly were shipping cocaine to the U.S. Still more striking is the case of Auguste Joseph Ricord, 62, now serving a 20-year sentence for conspiracy to smuggle heroin into...
Born in France, Ricord was a pimp, dope peddler and Gestapo collaborator before he emigrated to Argentina and became naturalized. Then he moved to neighboring Paraguay and entered a syndicate that piped more than five tons of heroin into the U.S. Although he had never set foot in the U.S., he was convicted last year in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan. For a year and a half he had fought the U.S. extradition demand. But impoverished Paraguay, threatened with the loss of U.S. aid (currently $9,000,000), finally gave him up. The State Department insists there was nothing...
...Washington, D.C., black man with a narcotics record was stopped in his car by police, and he showed a driver's permit that the officer knew to be invalid. The man was arrested, then thoroughly searched. Because the police found 14 caps of heroin, the man was convicted of a narcotics felony. A Florida college student was pulled over at 2 a.m. after police saw his car weaving. When he said he had left his license in his dorm, he, too, was arrested, then fully searched and finally convicted for possession of marijuana joints found in a cigarette...