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...illicit opium crop-a full two-thirds of the world's output. A major participant in that war fell last week when Thai agents, advised by U.S. narcotics agents, captured Lo Hsing-han, long suspected of being Southeast Asia's largest and most powerful heroin tycoon. In a rare display of cooperation, Burmese armed forces, which at one time winked at Lo's operations, attacked Lo and men from his private army, forcing them across the border into Thailand and into the hands of the Thai Special Narcotics Organization...
After 1970, with Turkish production of the narcotic curtailed by U.S. pressure, the major dealers in the Triangle began large-scale exports. They had discovered that they could reap huge profits by selling their heroin-which they refine from the morphine derivative of raw opium-to the burgeoning markets among the G.I.s in Viet Nam and elsewhere in the West. One kilo of pure heroin-which sells for $300 at the Burma-Thai border-is worth at least $3,000 in Saigon, $10,000 in Marseille and $50,000 in New York City...
Some of the new gangs in New York are animated by antidrug vigilantism; often they were formed specifically to run drug pushers out of their neighborhoods, and most of them severely punish members caught using heroin or cocaine. There is little evidence of this in the Philadelphia gangs. That is partly because drugs seem to be less prevalent there. As one young member explained succinctly, "You can't nod and gang-war at the same time." When not warring, drinking wine and listening to records appear to be the gangs' principal definition of a good time...
There is a new James Bond - Roger Moore of Sainted TV memory - and a new angle to his latest adventure. In this incarnation, 007 is the Great White Hope. He goes about beating up black men who are doing a little heroin smuggling to finance a Caribbean dictatorship and, perhaps, take over...
...major problem is one of obsolescence. Bond movies can no longer rely on the Cold War for accessible plots. No more SMERSH or SPECTRE. Consequently, Live and Let Die is no more than an elaborate heroin swindle. The movie's Mr. Big turns into an ordinary villain, and a nondescript one at that. He is at no time believable...