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Earlier this month, at greater length, the Drug Enforcement Administration began providing Vermont realtors with a so-called drug-trafficker profile. New England DEA Chief Robert Stutman mailed two-page, single-spaced letters asking the state's realtors to "help locate properties that are being utilized to conceal illicit drugs" by flagging the agency when dealing with customers who fit that general description. Stutman said the pusher profile was based on DEA experience. Vermont is located in the middle of the heavily traveled Montreal-Boston smuggling corridor. Says Stutman: "We need all the help...
...roomed with Robert Kennedy's son David, who has had his much publicized drug problems. Other friends, groping for an explanation, speculate that Breindel's chronic physical pain-he had undergone several operations in recent years for wrist and kidney ailments-led him to seek an illicit painkiller. Yet it is hard to understand why he would not stick to prescription relief: both his father and sister are physicians. Still, the friends who say they were unaware of a heroin problem are not alone. The FBI, Pentagon and CIA investigated Breindel after Moynihan tapped him for the intelligence...
Virtually every civilization except that of the Eskimo has indulged in the use of drugs. When the choice is illicit, such as cocaine, the users are vilified as criminals. The question is: Can society deal with the problem if it persecutes and prosecutes the people it purports to be helping? The U.S. will continue to lose its battle against drug abuse as long as the antidrug bureaucratic Establishment prevails...
Washington received another boost last week in Brazil. The government of President Joao Baptista Figueiredo announced that it had seized four Libyan transport aircraft loaded with a reported 200 tons of illicit arms and explosives. The destination of the clandestine shipment: the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. For the U.S., the discovery constituted welcome proof that leftist Central American insurgencies are being abetted from outside the hemisphere. Nicaraguan Ambassador to Brazil Ernesto Gutierrez implausibly said that his government knew nothing about the contents of the airlift...
...separation between church and state...They create an intrinsic conflict of interest." If a taxation policy were to be adopted, he said, it should follows the policy recommended by the British Indian Hemp Commission in 1894: "taxation should be at such a level that you do not encourage illicit cultivation and traffic...