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...moved away, while the predominantly black community has grown from 30,000 in the mid-1960s to 42,000 (Hispanics, few in number in 1965, now constitute 25% of the total). On "Mother's Day," so called because it marks the arrival of welfare checks, sales surge in cocaine, heroin and PCP. Riot? No, says Baptist Minister Charles Mims Jr., explaining, "The militants are all high. You can't be angry and high at the same time...
...ARRESTED. HAJI BASHIR NOORZAI, 44, Afghan narcotics trafficker called a "drug kingpin" by U.S. President George Bush last June; for allegedly smuggling 500 kg of heroin worth more than $50 million into the U.S.; in New York City. U.S. prosecuting attorney David Kelley said Noorzai was involved in a 14- year "unholy alliance" with Afghanistan's former Taliban leaders, trading drugs and weapons for government protection. Noorzai, who faces 10 years to life in prison if convicted, pleaded not guilty in a U.S. District Court last Wednesday...
...overhead fan pushed sultry air around the courtroom in Penang as High Court Justice Mohammed Dzaiddin Abdullah, wearing black robes and a white wig, pronounced the death sentence last week on two Australians arrested in November 1983 for possession of 179.5 g, or 6.3 oz., of heroin. Kevin Barlow, 26, and Brian Chambers, 28, are the first Westerners to face Malaysia's gallows under the 1983 Dangerous Drugs Act, which mandates death for possessing more than 15 g of heroin. They join 52 other drug traffickers on death row. Since 1975, when Malaysia passed its first law imposing the death...
DIED. Auguste Joseph Ricord, 74, French-born drug trafficker who from his base in Paraguay during the late 1960s and early '70s masterminded the Latin Connection, the syndicate that shipped $1.2 billion worth of Turkish heroin from Europe through Central and South America to the U.S.; of undisclosed causes; in Asunción, Paraguay. Arrested there in 1971 on U.S. conspiracy charges, Ricord, one of the biggest drug kingpins ever snared by the U.S., was sentenced in 1973 to 20 years' imprisonment, but was released after ten because of poor health...
...police now play in areas such as major drug busts (particularly for amphetamines, for which illicit factories in southern China are a major source). "The biggest threat to Australia where we require assistance from China is in drug trafficking," he says. "China is a major transit country for the heroin coming from the Golden Triangle." On the other side, China's focus is currently on 500 economic fugitives who have absconded with billions of dollars; six suspects have been repatriated from Australia...