Word: illicitness
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...international assault on Latin America's illicit drug industry was unprecedented. In Operation Snowcap, made public only when it ended last week, antidrug forces from 30 nations cooperated for 28 days in a blitz on the dope trade -- dynamiting airstrips, assaulting coca-processing operations, searching travelers. Among the participating nations were Belgium, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Britain, the U.S. and Venezuela. Results: 11 tons of cocaine and 244 tons of marijuana seized; 114 guns, 122 boats, planes and vehicles confiscated; 22 cocaine labs destroyed; and 1,267 arrests made. Yet no major kingpins were nailed. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh applauded...
Freshman supervisors take some comfort in the fact that drug use seems to be tapering off: 57.6% of the high school seniors graduating in 1986 reported that they had tried an illicit drug, down from 65.6% in 1981. Yet freshmen are considered to be at high risk for drug and alcohol abuse and the academic and disciplinary problems that follow. At the University of New Hampshire, for example, freshmen constitute more than half of all students who end up at the health services for overconsumption of alcohol and drugs. Drinking also makes students more vulnerable to other dangers. Between...
...test on the blood, along with the name of a legitimate Medicaid recipient. The Panshi labs would perform tests on the blood to generate legitimate-looking data, and the Government was billed as much as $2,000 a sample. Surplus vials of the blood were trafficked to other illicit clinics at a markup...
...would consecrate four of his disciples as bishops on June 30. Since Roman Catholic canon law requires papal authorization to create new bishops, the step would automatically excommunicate Lefebvre and his newly minted prelates. By making possible the perpetuation of a sect with its own hierarchy, the consecration of illicit bishops would produce the first schism since the 1870s, when the Old Catholics rebelled against the First Vatican Council's proclamation of papal infallibility...
After a storm of protest over the so-called zero-tolerance policy -- under which Brobdingnagian yachts were confiscated if lilliputian amounts of marijuana were discovered on board -- the Coast Guard and the U.S. Customs Service have decided that perhaps they can tolerate a trace or two of illicit drugs on the high seas after...