Word: opiumeators
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...interesting point. Democratic Senator George McGovern recently incurred Ky's wrath by inquiring into printed reports that the Vice President was involved in the smuggling of opium into South Viet Nam. Ky has vehemently denied the accusations, and no evidence has linked him to the trade...
...facilitating the flow of cheap heroin into South Viet Nam as a means of demoralizing American forces while picking up considerable foreign exchange. With the exception of a few teenage "cowboys" and bar girls, Vietnamese shun heroin, which they regard as declassé and crass compared to opium. Virtually all of it goes into American bloodstreams. In efforts to get Saigon to clamp down on traffickers, the U.S. has already offended the sensitive pride of Vietnamese sovereignty by insisting on stricter customs inspections...
...incarceration without bail, Berger was acquitted of the charge of possession of the drug because there was no evidence that it belonged to him. He was also cleared of having allowed his villa "Casa Degli Angeli" (House of the Angels) to be used as a fumeria (smoking place or opium...
...been a pervasive feature of the G.I. scene since the mid-1960s, when canny Vietnamese (who prefer to chew betel nuts or smoke opium themselves) began cultivating the growing military market. Last-fall a Pentagon investigating team returned from Viet Nam with a report that drugs had become a serious "military problem." Last month the U.S. command in Saigon announced an all-out campaign against narcotics, complete with a 64-page directive and plans for ground and aerial searches for fields where marijuana is grown. Military surveys taken over the past two years have shown that from...
This general is an unusual case, though. Some months after my conversation a major government-military crisis developed when an over-eager Air Force general tried to divert planes from the opium trade to fighting the war. He lost. Let the B-52's and Air America do the fighting. It was the Americans' idea in the first place...