Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Correspondent Charles Eisendrath journeyed to the opium-rich Afyon province of Turkey to talk with poppy farmers (see cut). Eisendrath also interviewed "Mehmet," a former Turkish smuggler who had turned informer for the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. "The sweat bubbled in the creases of his forehead whenever Mehmet told specific details about his job," Eisendrath recalls. Shortly afterward Mehmet disappeared mysteriously from the BNDD network-presumably a casualty. Says Eisendrath: "In a way the sickness-and attempted cure-of the U.S. drug problem had confused Mehmet, and quite possibly destroyed...
...success, Turkey, may turn out to be discouragingly hollow. In return for $35 million in various subsidies, Turkey agreed to curb the cultivation of opium after the 1972 crop was harvested. The Administration felt that it had achieved a "breakthrough" because the 80 tons of illicit opium produced by Turkish farmers last year produced 80% of the heroin entering the U.S. market. But now there are worries that the curb may be ineffective, in view of the large supplies of opium that canny Turkish smugglers are rumored to have begun to stockpile long...
...Antioch and Alexandria, and newer ones like Moscow, recognized him only as the "first among equals." The power of his office had originally derived from its association with the Byzantine Empire, and later from its role as a kind of Christian viceroy for the Islamic Ottoman Empire. But modern Turkey had scant use for a Christian leader in Constantinople...
...what a writer tries to establish when he lists his accomplishments for the inside back flap of his novel's dust jacket. It is thus very good to be able to put down, as Novelist Barry Hannah did on the jacket of Geronimo Rex, "troubleshooter in a turkey-pressing plant." It is not so good to write "Presbyterian minister," and Frederick Buechner, who interrupted his writing career for several years to take a degree at Union Theological Seminary and become a minister, admits that he has thought of publishing his novels under an assumed name. As things...
...University Hospital, a pioneer in the use of methadone, argues that physicians should relieve, not increase, the suffering of the heroin addict. Most drug users apparently agree. Addicts are far more likely to turn themselves in for treatment if chemical substitutes are offered than if the prospect is cold turkey. The flaws in that argument are that American treatment programs have a high relapse rate and that the addiction epidemic is nowhere near being checked...