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Heroin Rain. Amsterdam has long been a mecca for addicts and dealers because of The Netherlands' wrist-tapping drug laws. But the mounting flow of "horse" through the city has become a narc's nightmare. Says G.J. Toorenaar, chief of Amsterdam's criminal investigation division: "It's raining heroin in The Netherlands." Worse, Europe's swelling addict population is now getting its dope from overseas Chinese gangs that police cannot understand or penetrate...
Bowton moved out on top early in the second period when Capital defenseman Pete Scamurra lost the puck to Bruin Peter McNab, who beat Low with a quick wrist shot. It was the 18th tally in 19 games for the sudden sensation...
...then discovered that he had extracted these diamonds from doomed Jews in return for granting them their freedom, and then had dispatched them to their deaths. And what if you also knew that this seemingly benign old gentleman is armed with a foot long knife, hidden in a metal wrist ornament, which he is capable of flicking out and slitting someone's throat with in a matter of seconds...
...halyard there! Look alive, deck!' The sails begin to drop like curtains at a play's end. Now the men on deck haul furiously on the sheets to trim sails to the wind. A dozen men grab the hemp lines, thick as a man's wrist, brace their feet on the deck, and haul hand over hand, faces purple with the frantic effort. 'Heave! Heave! Heave!' they shout, as the sail is winched home. Now the wind is picking up, and the ship is beginning to heel over slightly as the sails billow and fill...
Ulam characterized Italian Communist chief Enrico Berlinguer's criticism of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czecholovakia, made during the conference, as "a slap on the wrist." He expressed uncertainty as to whether a similar Soviet action was now less likely as a result of the conference and document...