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...proportion who said they had used cocaine in the previous month, and the percentage who have tried cocaine in the past year went down, 12.7% to 10.3%. Marijuana and hashish smoking also declined, continuing a nine-year downward trend. Yet 57% of seniors admitted having tried illicit drugs...
...region's countries -- Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia -- are on the U.S. Government's list of seven "big producer" states targeted for maximum surveillance (the other three: Pakistan, Burma, Thailand). Latin America produces all the cocaine and nearly all the marijuana consumed in the U.S., dominating the illicit $130 billion-a- year market...
...first time it was the top mobster bosses -- who ran a vast illicit empire financed largely by heroin sales to the U.S. -- who received the longest terms. Among 19 men who received life sentences was Michele Greco, 63, nicknamed "the Pope" for his high position in the Mafia. Greco was found responsible for scores of murders, including the 1982 assassination of General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa. Only three months before his death, Italian authorities had sent the crime-busting military man to Palermo to lead the battle against the Mafia...
...lawyers are alarmed. In criminal trials the Government must always prove guilt, but in many confiscation proceedings the burden of proof falls on the person who wants to reclaim his goods. The thorniest disputes involve prosecutors' efforts to seize lawyers' fees when the defendant's money has come from illicit profits. The Justice Department claims it uses the fee gambit only in clear cases, but a spokesman for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers charges, "A lot of people can't get a lawyer of their choice, and many can't get a lawyer at all." Civil libertarians...
Radio Stations End Illicit Broadcasting...