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...worked the Republican refrain of "four more years" by listing Americans and Asians dying in Viet Nam, G.I.s hooked on heroin, hungry children at home and young mothers unable to pay their grocery bills, wiretappers, "warmongers" and purveyors of racial fears, and ended: "Can we afford four more years of that...
...86th person to die in 22 months of a vicious drug war that has engulfed Nuevo Laredo. The sprawling Mexican border town (pop. 160,000) has become the principal point for smuggling into the U.S. Mexican marijuana, South American cocaine and European heroin funneled through Latin America. Upwards of $1 million worth of drugs passes through Nuevo Laredo to U.S. buyers each week...
...guns than the gangs, have been unable to stop the killings. But the federal government frequently strikes back. Last May a tough police comandante named Everardo Perales Rīos was sent to clean up Nuevo Laredo. In six weeks, Perales collected three tons of marijuana, two pounds of heroin and quantities of cocaine and raw opium-more drugs than local police had confiscated in 20 years. Unfortunately, Perales' success was his undoing. The gangs put a $5,000 contract on his head...
...National Assembly last June reluctantly granted President Nguyen Van Thieu the power to rule by decree for six months. Thieu lost no time in issuing a series of tough decrees that, among other things, increased the income tax rate, set the death penalty for certain crimes, including kidnaping and heroin dealing, subjected some religious groups to the draft, and ordered Saigon's 40 newspapers to deposit 20 million piasters ($46,-512) each as security against government fines or libel suits...
...endemic on military bases. The Pentagon estimates that there are between 50,000 and 115,000 alcoholics among the 2.4 million men in the armed forces, and alcoholism is a factor in the discharge of several hundred men each year. Alcoholism, in fact, is a far bigger problem than heroin addiction and other, newer forms of drug abuse. It is, of course, expensive in financial as well as human terms. A radar repairman lost to alcoholism costs about $10,000 to replace; the price of training a bomber pilot is around $200,000. Among sailors alone, the Navy estimates...