Word: kilo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trips into the countryside, Perón carried gifts for everybody-candy, bakery goods, a kilo of meat, a pair of shoes. Rarely did peasants realize that the gifts had been "requisitioned" from local shopkeepers. But they were ready to cheer when Evita told them, "There is only one Perón. He is God for us, so much so that we cannot conceive of heaven without Perón. He is our sun, our air, our water, our life...
...addicts are shuddering through the third month of a major heroin drought. In Montreal, a major port of entry for French heroin, one dealer complained last week that "the stuff is scarce as hell. I can pay but my man can't deliver." In Marseille, the price of a kilo of heroin has risen in past weeks from $2,500 to $5,000, partly as a result of the shortage, partly because the heat...
Narcotics experts say that big drug dealers share something approaching a community spirit. On one occasion a trafficker loaned a competitor 20 "keys" (kilos of narcotics) in order to make up a shipment. The real common denominator in the business is an addiction to immense profits. At the labs in Marseille, a dealer must shell out anywhere from $120,000 to $350,000 for 100 kilos of heroin refined from Turkish opium. On delivery to a U.S. wholesaler, however, the 100-kilo package is worth about $1 million. After expenses, the net profit can be as high...
...operator may never even see the drugs he deals in. They are handled by a small platoon of hirelings: "plant men" who package the stuff, "chemists" who turn morphine base into pure heroin for $400 a kilo, and "mules" who will carry it to its destination for $1,000 plus plane fare. The narcotics trade has been a boon to Paraguay's so-called "Mau Mau" pilots. The pilots fly contraband drugs north to the U.S. from Buenos Aires or from any of 500 tiny airstrips that dot Paraguay. The pilots joke that they have a "Cessna 500" (which...
...Corsican and Italian middlemen in Montevideo, Buenos Aires-or Auguste Ricord's Asunción. The economics of the trade are such that the professional trafficker is usually assured of great profit-and power. Along the various steps from Turkish farm, where enough opium to produce a "key" (kilo) of heroin can be bought for $22, to New York market, the value of a key rises dramatically...