Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tomasello's charges of large-scale drug traffic in the Square provoked an intense interrogation of Cambridge Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan by the City Council. Brennan said that the situation is not "dangerous" and defended his department's competence in handling any incidents...
Councillor Walter J. Sullivan angrily disputed Brennan. Naming two Harvard Square restaurants, the Hayes-Bickford and the Waldorf, Sullivan said he had personally seen "needles and syringes" on the premises. "I would have to agree with Judge Tomasello. There certainly is a lot of drug traffic in and around Harvard Square," he said...
...Heroin Traffic...
Sullivan's report raised the possibility of heroin traffic in the Square. Most observers believe that the traffic is primarily limited to marijuana which is generally smoked by the user and is not addictive. Heroin is addictive and usually injected directly into the blood stream by the addict...
Brennan also told the Council that the Waldorf restaurant had hired two Cambridge policemen to survey the restaurant two nights a week between midnight and 3 a.m. These officers he said, had not reported any drug traffic...