Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Burnett-Alleyne, a convicted smuggler who once recruited mercenaries to invade Barbados. The Charles administration believes the ten Americans, who were apprehended with an arsenal of automatic weapons and plastic explosives, were to enforce a government takeover by John-in cahoots, perhaps, with the island's marijuana growers...
...Beach Park, waiting for a bus that would take her back to Honolulu. But she did not arrive at her hotel until late the next day. During the intervening hours she was raped repeatedly, a11 night long, by more than a dozen local punks, many of them stoned on marijuana. Hawaiians, especially those concerned with an enormous tourist industry, were already deeply disturbed about the state's rising crime rate. The brutal 1979 gang rape of the innocent tourist who came to be known in the press as "Anna" made headlines at once. Hawaiians started a Help Anna fund...
...defendants' lawyers. The case finally hinged on the singular is sue central to nearly every rape prosecution: the victim's degree of resistance. The case posed special problems for the prosecution because Anna had voluntarily accompanied some of the boys to their surfside tent - and smoked marijuana with them - before the attacks began. The prosecutor asked, "How much torture must a woman endure before she is believed?": But Anna's imprudence was apparently enough to stir a shadow of doubt in the jurors' minds. After deliberating for only five hours, they found all four teen agers...
According to his lawyers, Peter L. Krutschewski, 35, was "the most decorated helicopter pilot of the Viet Nam War" and "the oil genius of Michigan." According to federal prosecutors, he was also a big-time narcotics importer who smuggled $15 million worth of marijuana from Colombia to Gloucester, Mass., in 1975. During his trial in U.S. district court in Boston last year, Krutschewski did not deny the charges, but asked to be acquitted on grounds that he was temporarily insane, a delayed reaction to the stress of combat. His effort failed and Krutschewski, who runs an oil and gas exploration...
Eartha Kitt, singer, on why she is moving from the West Coast to the East: "Everyone's on cocaine or marijuana. There's no one out there for me to play with any more...