Word: illicitness
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...started out as partly a drug raid, partly a well-orchestrated publicity campaign. As a helicopter swooped over the horizon of Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest, technicians on board directed the aerial spraying of selected plots of illicit greenery. Camera crews dutifully recorded the 20-min. operation. It was, said the Drug Enforcement Administration proudly, the first-ever aerial use of the potent weed killer paraquat on domestic marijuana fields. A White House spokesman hinted that similar airborne anti-pot hits might be staged this year in as many as 39 other states...
...misunderstand: in Arizona, as in every other state, it is still illegal to peddle drugs. But citizens who intend to sell illicit drugs in Arizona anyway are now obliged to get a $100 state license from the department of revenue. Still more curious, the law that went into effect last month requires that an official, yellow $10 tax stamp be stuck to every 1-oz. bag of marijuana sold, and a $125 blue stamp to each 1-oz. parcel of cocaine (or any other illegal drug). What is more, the revenuers must keep the names of all licensees confidential; otherwise...
...spawned, the great game fish face a hazardous course that only the fittest survive. Along the way they are likely to encounter far more than the simple lures of sportsmen who gladly pay up to $3,000 a week for riverbank angling rights. The fish must also run an illicit gauntlet of nets, gaffs, snares, spears, dynamite, electric shocks, even poison, believed to be cy-mag, a cyanide-based white powder that sucks the oxygen out of the water and turns every asphyxiated fish belly up within a two-mile area. Reaching river's end after such an ordeal...
...State Department seems to be unaware of the scope of the illicit deals. "We have heard these rumors of U.S.-supplied restricted military items getting to Iran for years," says Barbara Schell, the desk officer responsible for Iran, "but there is no proof." American diplomats insist that they do not secretly condone the shipment of arms to either of the belligerents in the three-year-old Iran-Iraq...
Both social arbiters offer guidance that would never have been needed in an earlier era. It is perfectly all right, Mazzei assures readers, to refuse a gift of cocaine or some other illicit drug from a business associate-but be polite. Baldrige adds that, to avoid making the person uncomfortable, the corporate class act would be to hint that you use drugs-but not this one. The two also agree that anyone who plays the radio while working should get a Walkman if a co-worker objects to the noise...