Word: opium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brown Sugar." The Dutch connection is not as big or as broad as its famed French predecessor-at least not yet. Until a U.S.-sponsored multilateral crackdown on the international drug traffic began to take effect last year, laboratories in Southern France converted staggering quantities of Turkish opium into heroin for distribution in the U.S. and other countries. Police seizures of as much as 50 kilograms (110 lbs.) of heroin were common. New York detectives two weeks ago captured 165 lbs. of Turkish-derived heroin (street value: $113 million) that was stashed in a shipment of Louis XIII furniture being...
...bulk of the Amsterdam drug distribution seems to be in the hands of the small (currently about 2,000), tightly knit Chinese community that the city has had since the early trading days of the 17th century. Unlike the Marseille Corsicans, the Amsterdam Chinese do no processing of raw opium into heroin. That is done in Singapore and Hong Kong, major markets for the opium produced in the Golden Triangle area in Laos, Burma and northern Thailand. Known as "brown sugar" because of its color and texture, this Asian heroin has a purity of only 50%, compared with...
Snakes and Parrots. Burke called his stories "tales" and had no illusion about their realism. In his Limehouse, Fu Manchu stalks opium dens; every flower girl has a "lily-white bosom" and is generally no older than 14-Burke seemed to have a pre-Nabokov feeling for nymphets. There are sharp krisses, malevolent white parrots and deadly snakes. It is, in fact, a never-never land that encloses the reader in a cave of such hypnotic mandarin prose as the following...
...vote majority in the 450-member National Assembly, Ecevit will probably be tempted to call new elections as soon as the Cyprus situation settles down. He will want to cash in on the popularity he gained from his defiance of the U.S. in allowing Turkish farmers to grow opium poppies after a three-year ban (TIME, July 15) and his decisive actions during the Cyprus crisis. Re-election would give him up to four more years in office...
...already turned production back to the private two-acre farms rather than trying to limit opium growing to state-run agricultural enterprises, where control is easier. It has also granted amnesty to hundreds of convicted opium smugglers. All this adds up to a triumph for Turkish pride and nationalism-and Turkey's deadly white flower...