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...American pressure because of its poppy cultivation. Turkey then was an easy scapegoat for the concerned parents of American drug addicts and the U.S. administration. It is certainly ironic that "Midnight Express" puts the country once again in the culprit's seat: this time not because it is lax in its regulation of opium cultivation, but because it is harsh with misguided foreigners who try to smuggle hashish out of the country. If Billy Hayes got a "raw deal" from the Turkish government, this was due not to any wickedness on the part of the Turks, but to the constant...
Shevchenko's easy exposure has embarrassed the CIA. One of its former top officials complained that the agency handled the case "like a bunch of Keystone Kops." It is also quite possible that the CIA has been relatively lax with Shevchenko because he has been far less valuable as an intelligence source than had been anticipated. Although one of the highest-ranking Soviets ever to defect, he had little knowledge of the inner workings of current Soviet policies or intelligence operations. His reputation at the U.N. for heavy drinking and a weakness for shapely women may have...
Police estimate that 70% of the thefts are inside jobs. Says Houston Police Lieut. J.B. ("Bill") Bradley: "It goes right down to the roustabout in the field." Identification procedures are so lax that some firms wind up buying or renting back their own equipment through various "midnight" dealers. When it is sold, the stolen gear usually goes for bargain prices ?$500, say, for a high-pressure valve that costs $5,000. But some thieves with business savvy have been known to make really big money. In July, Houston's special "fence detail" arrested a middle-aged veteran salesman with...
...their representatives in Congress would go along. A case can be made that the issue is not ideological, that Carter has simply not been very competent or consistent in economic policy. The fact remains that, in general political perception, he is too tight and conservative for one side, too lax and liberal for the other. The Washington Post's David Broder wrote the other day that Carter must come down harder on one side or the other, that he should deliberately "divide and politicize" the country to get things moving. Perhaps so. But it is at least understandable that...
...LAX LOOSELEAF: Faught now has 48 goals on the season, only ten shy of the school record held by Dexter Lewis '55. He had eight points (7-1) by the end of the first half...