Word: opium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world has the U.S. spent so much for so little. Laotians happily joined the army, now 28,000 strong, but it soon became clear that the attraction was not patriotism but the pay, which amounts to roughly triple the amount an average Laotian makes farming or growing opium, the country's only cash crop. Economic aid largely disappeared in graft among Vientiane's ruling politicians, mostly related to one another, who alternate between government office and vacations on the French Riviera. Despite the U.S.'s best efforts, the main highway out of Vientiane is still paved only...
...Premier Mohammed Mossadegh and now an advocate of Gandhi-style protest, last week rallied 2,000 young Iranians to a meeting of his new movement, the "Protectors of Liberty." Speaking in quiet classroom tones from a stuccoed Teheran balcony, Baghai declared: "Premier Eghbal is a traitor. Among the big opium smugglers are high government officials, deputies, ministers, directors of independent agencies. Dr. Eghbal knows every one of them. If this Cabinet does not resign or is not removed, there will be an end to the Kingdom of Iran...
Once back in Hong Kong, the gold goes into the vaults of some 200 Chinese banks where it may be used for such delicate transactions as financing a shipment of Calcutta opium to Hong Kong or buying off Chinese Communist officials who have put the squeeze on the relatives of rich overseas Chinese businessmen. But the final market is most often India. Indian central bank officials estimate that India's private gold holdings exceed $3.6 billion (at the U.S. gold rate), up from $3.2 billion in 1948. The enormous trade in smuggled gold is a major reason India...
...living in misery, improve their humble position with products of the soil. Our vines are our glory. Do not the leaves entwine themselves about the capitals of our cathedrals?" Deputy Hervé Nader accused Debré of "favoring the Anglomania of whisky galore, which will soon become the opium of the middle classes...
...because her tone of voice is always the same is as absurd as criticizing a Byzantine ikon because it is static and badly drawn." Sniffed Kauffmann, in what tellectuals" undoubtedly is like not the Updike, "a last film word: to theater "in is a kind of steam bath or opium den to which one goes for a faintly wicked and figuratively supine little debauch . . . Pre sumably Miss Novak as Medea would raise him to the heights of Kimiolatry." . . . In her modest home by a Southern California orange grove, Hannah Nixon, 75, widowed mother of the Vice Presi dent, was chatting...