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Although marijuana and opium are technically illegal in Mexico, the Mexican government has been reluctant to beef up its unsophisticated mini-force of 40 drug agents, who are so poorly paid that they are easy prey to the Mexican ethos of mordida (the bite, or payoff). Operation Intercept may discourage the amateurs who smuggle hemp across the border on major highways. It will probably have little effect on the professionals who dominate the trade. As a knowledgeable Texas border scout points out, "There are areas out there where a small army could cross without detection...
...future copper profits. These are already so heavily taxed that even if dividends are maintained at their present level, the Zambian government can hope to realize only $5,000,000 a year from the two companies' $1.1 billion-a-year sales of copper. Thus the final payoff could be delayed for decades...
...Delos a waste? No: if the formal meetings lack unity and direction, Dox-iadis still performs a considerable service by bringing together brilliant, informed, influential people and giving them time to teach and invigorate one another. Much of the payoff occurs between the regular sessions when the participants freely exchange new ideas and form new intellectual friendships. Delos may be pretentious; it is also fun, and the experience is bound to affect urban crises throughout the world...
...Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union before tackling the job of writing this week's cover story on the state of world Communism. Tinnin's tour amounted to a cram course in the style and strains of life in the East bloc. To his surprise, the biggest payoff came during a cocktail party in Bucharest. There he overheard a Communist official say that copies of a detailed secret document spelling out the agenda for the summit meeting in Moscow had been sent to party central committees all over the world. Tinnin quickly sent a cable informing the TIME...
...thought of a permanent settlement seemed like wishful thinking in Saigon last week. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces unleashed their most widespread attack on the South-but not the heaviest-since the infamous Tet offensive of 1968. From U.S. military bases to provincial cities to the psychological payoff target of Saigon, rocket shells and terrorist bombs exploded with deadly frequency. They were followed, especially at U.S. outposts and forward bases, by ground assaults that forced many units into close combat. As a result, the American death toll for each of the past two weeks rose above...