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Marseille is the halfway house on the world's main route of illicit drug traffic. Crude morphine from the Middle East is smuggled into the tough, jaded Mediterranean port and converted to heroin. It is then sent to New York by clandestine carriers as diverse as diplomatic pouches and the Air France stewardess caught three years ago with the stuff in her bra. Balding little Louis Lavalette, chief of the police judiciare for Southern France, has long had a good hunch who was behind the operation: "Monsieur Jean" Cesari, a quick-witted courtly Corsican who, in 20 years...
...dockers, often had them make quick changes at midday while they shadowed Cesari and his henchmen. Several times they discovered raw morphine on incoming freighters ticketed to Cesari's hirelings (one shipment was packed in a carton of snails). But the police were unable to catch Cesari manufacturing heroin-until a laborer named Albert Veran laid out $15,000 for an old stone farmhouse last...
...other on his shoulders. Reaching the door, one shouted: "Open, quick! My friend has just been badly wounded!" Veran's wife opened up; the agents grabbed her before she could push an alarm button, let Lavalette and 14 more policemen in. Upstairs they surprised Monsieur Jean stuffing heroin into cellophane bags destined for the U.S., and also uncovered not the usual kitchen-sink and gas-stove rig for boiling down morphine but an ultra-modern four-room assembly line-"a veritable factory," cried Lavalette...
...only low point in the score is a tasteless lament for Harlem: "Don't Forget 127th Street," contains lyrics like "there's no slum like your own . . . the neighborhood is classy--we've got rats as big as Lassie . . . H is for the heroin they sell here. A is for the alleys where we play . . ."The audience loved it. There was even a loud round of applause just after a mention of the white man's wild ideas about the Negro's dancing ability. This, of course, was followed by an amazing display of dancing from the chorus. Such...
...poor and uneducated, and you only need three strikes all over the world to be out, and I have nothing to live for but this shot of dope," says one addict. But the habit is costly: $1 for a marijuana "reefer," $3 for a "bag" (a single grain of heroin), $5 for a "deck" (three grains). A heavy user may need up to $75 a day, and that often means mugging people and sometimes killing them for the wherewithal...