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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With that five-minute trial, Ayatullah Sadegh Khalkhali, Iran's notorious "hanging judge," dispensed summary justice to five more accused drug traffickers. In just six weeks, Khalkhali's firing squads have executed 120 convicted opium and heroin dealers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: War on Drugs | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

Definitions in the Atheist's Dictionary are written to conform with the basic Marxist line that religion is either 1) pure superstition or 2) "the opium of the people." God? An idea "used to justify and protect the social order of exploiters." Heaven? It distracts people from "the real tasks of the Communist rearrangement of life on earth." Conversely, hell dampens "the rage of the working people against their oppressors by planting a hope that the latter will be punished after death." Easter fosters "ideas of a class peace and forgiveness." Christ's love-thy-neighbor teaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: ... And an Atheist Bestseller | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...would have thought that this prism of bliss is a mere pause amid tumult, a respite in a plot-clogged saga of murder and revenge, which features, among a good many other things, poison asps, opium, the collapse into rubble of an entire Indian temple? With Natalia Makarova's direction, the American Ballet Theater has produced the full-length La Bayadére, at a cost of about $500,000. American balletgoers are not used to such a florid, densely populated drama. To appreciate it, one must be prepared for a very full, surprising experience. The evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Verdi Would Be Cheering | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...organized crime. Reagan's a nice uninformed old man. Bush, Anderson--these guys are Trilateral Commission all the way." Andromidas lives in a world where the Skull and Bones club appointed William Sloane Coffin to handle the "left Jacobin mob"; where the government, trying to repeat Britain's "opium sedation" of the Chinese, paid Leary and Alpert and Kesey and all his pranksters to popularize LSD; where George Bush is nuts for considering nuclear war. It's an intense world. It feels good to stride back out into the Elm St. sun and talk with the elderly man whose sign...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Getting His 2 Per Cent Worth | 3/6/1980 | See Source »

...addition to fruits, nuts and natural gas, Afghanistan has been famous for her exports of cotton, rugs, qarakul skins and opium. This economy allows her fiercely independent inhabitants to enjoy a non-communist life of 35 years each, on the average. With all this busy business, there is still time to appreciate a long and measurable literary tradition. The earliest Afghan novel, White Bodies, dates back to 1965. And in a nation where 9 out of 10 per cent cannot read or write, they say every man with a tongue is a poet...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach, | Title: Welcome to Sunni Afghanistan | 3/5/1980 | See Source »

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