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Federal officials concede that law enforcement alone is not enough. "To talk only in terms of eliminating the illicit drug supply is, in my judgment, a shortsighted approach," says John Ingersoll, the BNDD director. "What we need is a concomitant long-range program that will eliminate the demand." To that end, the bureau sends out speakers and brochures to teachers, school administrators and community leaders. In the New York City school system, drug education now starts in the fourth grade...
Smuggling currency abroad has long been a national pastime for Italians. For nearly a decade they have been carting lire by the billions across the border, partly to evade domestic taxes and partly in response to better investment opportunities in other countries. Though aware of the illicit traffic, Italian governments have tolerated it as comparatively harmless in a thriving economy...
DEVOTEES live according to four basic rules. They do not gamble, drink, engage in "illicit" sex, or cat meat. They live communally in Krishna temples, and feed themselves on sweets and spices whose recipes are taken from Vedic texts. They do as little as possible to expend themselves in physical self-flattery...
...evangelistic fervor for the value of work, since his characters would not have been a tenth as fascinating if one actually saw them working. It is almost axiomatic that in the finest plays no one works. Great drama consists mostly of people fighting, hating, making love (licit and illicit), living in a family, being frightened, being bored, reminiscing about the past, wallowing in self-pity, making jokes, mourning, drinking, talking and dying. Because it contains almost all of these things, the protean stuff of life, The Three Sisters is eternally compelling theater...
...Pauli papers have been helped by prurient publicity from West German courts, which have fined the Nachrichten more than $1,000 for "encouraging and abetting illicit intercourse." Even without such unsolicited testimonials, the papers seem to have the formula that will eventually drive their circulation past 1,000,000-a readership exceeded by only two newspapers in the Federal Republic. "I don't bother with sports or politics," says Publisher Rosenberg, who has only three full-time $218-a-month writers on his staff. "I give 'em sex, lots of it, straight and enjoyable. You never read about...