Word: opium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than 400 years, some of the world's best opium poppies have been grown in Turkey. The Turks use the seed for cooking oil and food seasoning, the stalk for fuel and animal fodder. From the pod they extract raw opium for the making of medicinal morphine. Currently, the poppy provides the main source of income for 80,000 farmers and earns Turkey about $5,000,000 per year in foreign exchange...
...source of the problem, as Nixon recognizes, lies in the countries where opium is grown and processed into heroin, and he is stepping up efforts to win their cooperation. He is also requesting $10 million for improved education and training in the field of drugs at home. "We need an expanded effort to show that addiction is all too often a one-way street," he told Congress. "It is essential that the American people are alerted to this danger, to recognize that it is not a danger that will pass with the end of the war in Viet Nam, because...
...opium den was in a small bamboo shack. The interior was dark except for one lamp used for lighting the opium. Sleeping bodies lay on wooden benches along the walls. I lay down on one of the empty benches and an attendant handed me one end of a long, thin pipe. He stuffed the other end full of opium. pierced a hole in the center of it, and held it upside down over the lamp. He told me to draw as hard as I could until all the opium in the pipe was burnt up. I did this and exhaled...
There is so much opium in Laos that it is not surprising that Americans have found some way to take advantage of it. Reliable reports say that pilots smuggle vast quantities to Saigon and Hong Kong in their spare time. It is also reported that pilots smuggle gold-which is in great abundance in Laos-from Vientiane to Hong Kong. The legal price differential is so great that if you buy a half-pound of gold in Laos, pay full duties on it, and sell it legally in Saigon you can pay for the round-trip airfare from Vientiane...
...Cambridge faculty have supposedly "arrived." Eisenhower could openly delegate half the presidency but a professor is not surposed to delegate his reading and writing (though, no doubt, some do). He is always fighting time, the great leveller. which will neither be extended nor compressed. Busymess is his true opium. In his Sisyphean labors, his merchandising of words, his endless ascent of unattainable peaks, it seems to me that he has lost touch not only with his students and his fellow men but with his own humanity.Program on Technology and Society