Word: opium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...floor manager for the bill, Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairm'an of the House Ways and Means Committee, explained that of the four types of excise taxes now in effect-user taxes (gasoline, airline tickets), regulatory (opium, betting, machine guns), sumptuary (alcohol, tobacco), and selective, or so-called luxury-only the luxury tax would be affected. Said he: "The excise taxes which this bill repeals were initially levied as emergency revenue-raising measures at the time of the Korean War, World War II, or at the time of the Depression of the 1930s. As a result, they represent...
...Burma's countryside has been racked by 17 years of warfare anyway. Besides the Communists, the Burmese army is battling such dissident tribal groups as the predominantly Protestant Karens and the hill-dwelling, opium-smoking Shans. While the fighting has nowhere come close to the proportions of the Vietnamese war, any week's reading of Burmese newspapers makes the land seem less than idyllic. Recent examples: "Rebels" have damaged the railway between Mandalay and Lashio. Five armed rebels "who seemed to be Communists" carried off a village chief and shot him. A band of police escorting seven provision...
...Phoui Sananikone, as Premier six years ago. One of the clan, General Kouprasith Abhay, is military governor of Vientiane, and he has recently been quarreling with a Phoumi partisan, General Siho Lamphouthacoul, over who should control such imports as liquor and medicine, as well as the lucrative fees from opium and gambling dens. As a result, licensing patrols of Kouprasith's soldiers and Siho's police have been arresting each other, while gamblers and opium-den keepers loudly complained at having to buy two licenses to operate in peace...
Even if this concern does not worry him there is no reason for Dr. Blaine to virtually promote the use of marijuana. Will we next hear the cry--"Dope man--I got cocaine, heroin, opium, bennies, peyote, and mari-WAN-nah"? George H. Arnold...
...good travel agent will tell, Hong Kong is a paradise of sights and sounds and is perfumed with the scents of opium, spices, incense and the special sensuous fragrance of warm silk. The tourist who arrives by plane and is whisked along an airy boulevard to an air-conditioned hotel may not disagree -until he explores the island colony. Then he will wonder why it was ever called Hong Kong, which means Fragrant Harbor...