Word: kilo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second Government. A number of Cosa Nostra families, including Valachi's, outlawed drug trafficking because it brought too many federal agents around. Still, Joe found the profits irresistible. When he began importing heroin from France (purchase price-$2,500 per kilo, U.S. selling price-$11,-000), he brought down on his head both the Cosa Nostra and the Bureau of Narcotics...
Eight months ago, Burt's parents stumbled on four "bricks" (each a compressed kilo) of marijuana hidden in his bedroom closet. "What the hell is this?" demanded Burt's father. "Stuff, of course," answered Burt, nonchalantly adding that he had been taking pot ever since he arrived in California...
...getting a shot at the movies in an Italian opus called Stop the World I Want To Get Off (no kin to the London-Broadway musical). By way of burnishing the image, Donyale told the Italian press that she keeps her figure (31-21-36) by eating only a kilo of meat per day-which comes to 2.2 Ibs., enough to sate a good-sized mastiff...
...Bureaus. The bureaus are manned by local police whose sole job is trading Interpol information with other bureaus and with Saint-Cloud. One payoff for Americans: interdiction of the narcotics pipeline that runs from Turkish farmers to French labs to New York pushers-pushing the price of an illicit kilo of opium from $500 to as much as $400,000 worth of heroin along the way. "Thanks to marvelous harmony between the world's police forces," says Rome-based U.S. Narcotics Agent Michael Picini, "a greater number of seizures is being made overseas today than on the American continent...
...Thanks for Warning." Hilder's only hope of keeping Gidrofon out of the way of the less maneuverable carriers and cruisers is to place his ship between them. When the Conserver gets too close, the Russian quickly hoists three indignant signal flags: Code Kilo X-ray ("You should keep farther away"). On one occasion Hilder replied by flashing a light with a warning that U.S. subs were operating in the area. The Russian replied in clumsy English: "Thanks for warning. I are seeing submarines." Late last month the Gidrofon finally departed for its home port-probably Vladivostok. For days...