Word: opium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Turkey insists that it will closely supervise the crops. U.S. officials are less sanguine, for good reason. Turkey has been notoriously lax in controlling opium smuggling in the past, and its actions so far hardly indicate that it will change...
drug and law enforcement officials also fear that Turkey's decision last week to resume planting opium poppies after a two-year prohibition will soon cause another deadly byproduct, "Turkish white" heroin, to appear back on the streets of New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles...
...Life. Turkey's decision to end its ban on opium production was based on compelling-if shortsighted -domestic considerations...
compensation to the peasant was ten times more than the profit earned from the annual legal exports of opium-but far less than the farmers could make on the illicit market. Moreover, poppy growing had been a way of life for centuries for 100,000 Turks, and neither the U.S. or Turkey was able to find a substitute crop for them to cultivate profitably. With no addiction problem in Turkey, the growers saw themselves as victims of an "American problem...
...slice of northeastern Burma meets Thailand and Laos, the situation is a demographer's and political analyst's nightmare. Remnants of a Kuomintang army that fled China at the time of the Communist takeover vie with independent warlords for control of the region's rich opium crop, while armed independence movements representing a bewildering host of ethnic and tribal groups periodically challenge the Rangoon government of General...