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...underscore Nixon's concern over illicit international traffic in narcotics. Last week at his press conference, in answer to a plainly planted question, the President called for a "national offensive" to fight addiction among American youth-with special emphasis on veterans who return from Viet Nam hooked on heroin. The Administration is also drafting legislation that will assemble in one organization the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation elements of drug control...
...growing concern as drugs creep into Nixon's natural middle-class white constituency. Reston, Va., for example, the planned community once heralded as an American dream suburb, has a drug problem. Two weeks ago, a 14-year-old runaway from the community, Carolyn Ford, died from a heroin overdose. In the same week, a 17-year-old Santa Barbara, Calif., youth stabbed himself to death rather than surrender to narcotics officers; he was among 41 people being rounded up in raids following a four-month narcotics investigation...
...insidious spread of addiction. Early one morning last week a 16-year-old girl and a 22-year-old man were found dead on the steps of a Queens, N.Y., hospital, both from narcotics overdoses. Police discovered that the girl's older brother had died of a heroin overdose several weeks before, and that another brother had narrowly escaped a similar fate at the same time...
...anthropology, perhaps, but excellent theater as a prologue to the stage apotheosis of the late Lenny Bruce as Taboo Breaker. In Lenny, which opened on Broadway last week, the stand-up comic with the dirty mouth who died five years ago of a heroin overdose at the age of 40 has become a folk hero of the counterculture. The smartass kid from New York with his run-of-the-strip-joint shtiks ends by challenging the hypocrisies and fears and inequities of the whole square world out there...
...clientele at first were mostly zonked by bad acid trips, and later strung out by huge, mind-bending doses of speed (amphetamine). Finally, many were destroyed by heroin. Their condition reflected a decline described by Jackie, a victim who saw it all in her late teens: "Sometimes I wish I was back in kindergarten," she told Smith. "It used to be like that here when I first came-people giving away flowers, sharing their food. Now it's turned into a big ego trip, nobody smiling or sharing...