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Nongovernmental antidrug initiatives are also surfacing. In Poland, a semiprivate, government-funded organization called Monar sponsored a demonstration against drug use that attracted thousands of young Poles across the country last September. In an effort to discourage farmers from selling poppy stalks, Poland's powerful Roman Catholic Church has pasted up posters in dozens of villages proclaiming, THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT: THOU SHALT NOT KILL. The church is also considering its own sanctions against drug sellers. Says Warsaw's Father Boguslaw Bijak: "There is a strong possibility that people who sell poppy straw will not be given a Christian burial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe Shooting Up Under a Red Star | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

There was just one Old Bolshevik left: Stalin sent out his new operatives after him. Halfway round the world, a young Spanish Communist named Mercader, alias Monar (with an assist from the New York Communist Party), found Trotsky in Mexico City and killed him with an alpenstock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In The Kremlin: Killer of the Masses | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

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