Word: opium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decided early on to be "a spectator of history" and succeeded admirably. His itinerary is a check list of modern crises. He was in Mexico in 1938, during a persecution of the Catholic Church, and in London during the blitz. He learned to love Viet Nam and opium during the last years of French occupation and spent 24 nervous hours at the doomed camp of Dien Bien Phu. Then it was on to Kenya for the Mau Mau uprising and later to a leper colony during the final days of the Belgian Congo. He sampled pornography in Batista...
...poppy growers. Succeed it has, and so the drug suppliers have turned to the Golden Crescent of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where government control is too weak to keep the poppy fields from blooming. U.S. narcotics officials estimate that the Golden Crescent is producing about 1,600 tons of opium a year, nine times the output of the rest of the world. Says DEA Chief Peter Bensinger: "It dwarfs anything we have known before...
...drug pipeline from the Golden Crescent has few leaks. Raw opium is converted in makeshift laboratories near the fields into a more compact morphine base that is smuggled aboard freighters in Syria or Lebanon for shipment to Mediterranean ports, mainly in Sicily. There it is converted into heroin in secret laboratories controlled by Mafia dons with close family and business ties to their counterparts in the U.S. Almost all of Sicily's heroin-as much as three tons a year-is infiltrated into the U.S. by couriers on ostensibly legitimate flights, usually from Palermo to New York...
Casablancas has also suffered battlefield defeats, most notably the loss of Esme Marshall, 19, fresh-faced cover girl who pioneered the bobbed look. Other stars who have exited Elite are Anna Andersen (Opium perfume) and Cover Girls Kim Alexis and Lisa Taylor. Among the few stellar models who have remained faithful to one agency are Cheryl Tiegs, Lauren Mutton and Shelly (Charlie's girl) Hack, all longtime Ford belles...
...will. Thus the habit that was once peculiar to Iran's upper classes, and gripped members of the Shah's own family, has filtered down through Iranian society. Says a high school teacher in Tehran, appalled at the extent of addiction among his students: "Heroin and opium were the only commodities that became inexpensive and plentiful after the revolution...