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Worldwide production of illicit opium, coca leaf and cannabis is many times the amount currently consumed by drug abusers. Some governments do not have control of the narcotics growing regions, and prospects in several countries are dampened by corruption, even government involvement in the narcotics trade...
This is Michelangelo as he was not meant to be seen. One has the illicit thrill of inspecting the mechanism of illusion, of seeing what devices and abbreviations he used to make sure the figures would "read" from restricted angles 65 ft. below. One thinks of him on the ladder, carrying the scheme of exaggeration in his head like a brimful bucket. On the curved surfaces of the ceiling and spandrels, he used cartoons, full-size drawings whose outlines were transferred to the plaster. But the lunettes, or flat semicircular panels, around the top of the Sistine's windows, show...
...lingering doubts about his rigorous stance, the touring Pontiff stressed again and again the need for a disciplined church that is attentive to official teaching. To an audience of 400,000 in Caracas he issued another in his series of traditionalist condemnations of birth control, abortion, euthanasia and illicit sex. The morning after saying Mass in Maracaibo, he moved on to Merida, where he urged a throng to accept church teachings "with meekness" and not to be "dragged away by ideologies contrary to Catholic dogma...
...since 1961, admitted that the company had suspended him after accusing him of feeding bad news to the financial press. Sources at the Securities and Exchange Commission, meanwhile, confirmed that the agency is investigating whether someone outside the company is breeding rumors about ITT in order to make an illicit stock profit...
...progress reflect well on this Administration. Crime rates are down across the country. SAT scores among high school students have risen. The Los Angeles Olympics-despite a Soviet bloc boycott provoked by the Carter-Mondale Administration became an attend of international joy and celebration. Crackdowns on organized crime and illicit drug tratficking have succeeded at an unprecedented level...