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...fighting gradually fades in Indochina, Southeast Asia's other war intensifies. Up in the cool highlands of the Golden Triangle where the borders of Burma, Laos and Thailand meet, fighting rages for control of the area's 700-ton illicit opium crop-a full two-thirds of the world's output. A major participant in that war fell last week when Thai agents, advised by U.S. narcotics agents, captured Lo Hsing-han, long suspected of being Southeast Asia's largest and most powerful heroin tycoon. In a rare display of cooperation, Burmese armed forces, which...
Weicker did some self-righteous dissociation of himself and the Republican party from the bugging, burglary and other illicit campaign activities conducted by a segment of that party. Yet he is afraid to set out on his own. He is still a captive, rather than a leader, in the Republican party...
Husband with a wandering eye meets divorcée who has no current attachments. They fly off together on an illicit holiday, fight and joke with each other, and fall in love. Back home again, they set up a mutually convenient rendezvous, a small, snug apartment. The affair, always frazzled, starts to look a little frayed, worn by convention, threatened by guilt and irresolution...
Others took advantage of his lethargy. Cronies at the state capital started negotiating improper contracts and picking up cash in other illicit ways; Lieutenant Governor Jere Beasley and State Attorney General Bill Baxley began openly maneuvering to run for Governor. In a speech last winter that received national attention, Harold Martin, editor-publisher of the Montgomery Advertiser and the Alabama Journal, urged Wallace either to retire for the good of the state or appoint a committee of businessmen to help him govern...
Mental Ward. The St. Louis area has been the scene of considerable illicit drug traffic, and DALE agents based there have made some valid arrests. Still, as one federal law-enforcement official acknowledged, "this isn't the first time" that agents in the vicinity had staged lawless raids. Nor has St. Louis been the only site of such excesses. On Jan. 9 in Winthrop, Mass., DALE agents went along on a morning foray led by state and local police that also turned out to be a terrifying case of mistaken identity...