Word: illicited
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...replace the Turkish supplies, Mexican "brown" heroin-a cruder, more cheaply produced variety-was put under extensive cultivation two years ago. Mexican officials have tried to stamp out the traffic, even using soldiers and helicopters to search out illicit crops. Nevertheless, John Bartels Jr., head of the Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration, says that Mexican heroin has become "our No. 1 target...
...agency was hunkering down. Former Director Richard Helms, under whose stewardship the most recent abuses ostensibly occurred, is now ambassador to Iran. Before he left Tehran last week for a vacation trip through Europe to the U.S., he "categorically denied" in a cable to the State Department that the illicit operations had taken place. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, who was Helms' immediate successor, remained silent...
...these conversations, he concluded that the selection of either Fukuda or Ohira might fatally split the L.D.P., ending its 25-year domination of Japanese politics. Shiina was also aware that the public had become seriously disillusioned by factional bickering within the party and by the still unrefuted charges of illicit financial dealings that drove Tanaka from office...
...spelled disaster to a considerably less vocal segment of U.S. society: the Southern moonshiner. All the essential ingredients of corn likker have skyrocketed: sugar (up 300% in a year), grain and yeast, as well as the copper used for piping and kettles and the plastic jugs in which illicit hooch is transported and sold. A gallon of moonshine that used to sell for $1 now goes for $6 or more. As a result, the tide of "white whisky" that used to flow from Appalachian hills and hollers is now only a trickle...
...swoops, twitches and all sorts of physical mannerisms. Los Angeles must indeed be the City of the Angels, for during the show's run its citizens poured over $100,000 a week into the coffers of this theater and got a two-bit performance in return. And more illicit box office loot lies ahead. The play moves on to Denver, Chicago, Boston, Toronto and New York...