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- 4 April 1980
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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FO~O 14/80)
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4 April 1980
WORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DAHGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 14/80)
CONTENTS PAGE
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
( States To Consider Heroin for Terminal Cancer Patients
- (Shaun McIlraith; TH~:' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD,
z Jan 80) 1
_ Victoria ~~overnment Questions, Studies Odyssey Funding
(THE AGE, lh, 17 Jan 80) 2
Payments to Founder
MP Has Second Thoughts
New South Wales Antidrug ?rogram Found Inadequate . _
(Editorial; THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 14 Jan 80)..... 4
Commission Into Drugs Submits Final Report to Canberra
(John Dux; THE AUSTRALIAN, 16 Jar. 80) 6
More Autonomy Planned for Queensland Drug Dependency
Service
(THI: COURIER-MAIL, 17 Jan 80) 8
}lelbourne Police Campaign in St Kilda Unsuccessful
(Lindsay Murdoch; TfiE AGE, 18 Jan 80) 9
Federal Police Chief Says Narcotics Bureau 'Maligned'
(THE AGE, 23 Jan 80) 11
Briefs
Herion by Mail 12
Heroin Importer Jailed 12
More Heroin Offenders 13
' Former Addict Jailed 13
Brisbane Drug Dealers 13
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CONTENTS (Continued) Page
Marihuana Grower Charged 13
Queensland Marihuana Plantation 14
Drugs, Marihuana P~ants Stolen 14
Commission Completes Drug Inquir}~ 14
HONG KONG
Long-Wanted Inter.national TraffickE~r Arrested
(SOUTEI CHINA MORNING POST, 22 Feb 80) 15
Drug Smugglers Change Tactics at Kai Tak Airport
(Tommy Lewis; SOUTH CHINA MORNIN~ PO~T, 3 Mar 80).... 16
Briefs
Arug Seizure Statistics 1~
Heroin Base Seizure 1~
Raw Opium Haul 1~
Regional Drug Conference lg
THAIL6,ND `
Sinclair Trial Continues, Sydney Detective Testifies
(THE COURIER-MAIL, 31 Jan 80) 19
Opium Smugglers Arrested in Hat Yai
(DAO SIAM, 10 Feb 80), 20
Marihuana Shipment Seized in Udorn Thani
(DAO SIAM, 27 Jan 80) 21
EAST EUROPE
HUNGARY
Briefs
Egyptian Heroin Smuggler Apprehe~nded ' 23
LATIN AMERICA
BOLIVIA
Brief s
Cocaine Factories 24
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_ COLOMBIA
Inspectors Claim Innocence in Coca;~ne Theft
(Jairo Ortiz C.; EL ESPECTADOR, 4 Feb 80)............ 25
Marihuana, Weapons Seizad in Sar~ta Marta .
(Gustavo Vasquez; EL TIEMPO, 30 Jan 80) 27
Brie~s
Marihuana Plantation Found 29
. Hallucinogenic Pills Seized 29
~ Cocaine Seized Near Barrancaberme~a 29
ECUADOR
Interpol Arrests International Trafficking Gang
(EL TIEMPO, 20 Jan 80) 30
Trafficking Gang Arrested in Guayaquil
(EL tJNIVERSO, 22 Jan 8(:) 32 ,
MEXICO �
Briefs
Cocaine Smuggler Caught 33
Traffickers in Plane Crash 33
VENEZUELA
Cocaine, Guns Confiscated; 1~ao Arrested
(F'rancisco Gomez; ULTIMAS NOTICIAS, 23 Jan 80)....... 34
Mandrax Pills Seized, ~tao Colombians Arrested
(ULTIMAS NOTICIAS, 20 Jan 80) 35
Brief s ~
~ Mandrax Traffickers Arrested 37
tJ~ST EUROPE
. BELGIUM
Briefs
Zairian Arrested on Drugs Charge 38
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CONTENTS (Continued) Page
rnANCE
Enforcemer.t Officials, Researchers niscuss Soft-Drug Use
(Jean-Francis He?d, Andre Bercoff; I,'BXPRFsSS,
2-8 Feb 80) 39
, ~tao Viewpoints Concerning Drug Use Presented
(LE MONDE, 2 Feb 8~) 44
Dangerous or. Not
Hashish Hazard:; Seen Exaggerated, by Claude
Olievenstein
Inaction on Dsrugs Condemned, by Pierre Zarka ~
Drug Education Tracts Cit:ed, Effects Discussed
ZLE MONDE, 24 Jan 80) 49
Briefs
~Iorphi~ze-Base Seized 54
Iranian Heroin Influx 54
SWITZERLAND
Sentences of Heroin Smugglers UphElld on Appeal
- (NEUE ZUERCHER ZEITUN~, 29 Feb 80) 55
TURKEY �
Briefs
Heroin Seized 58
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AUSTRALIA
STAT`ES TO CONSIDER HEROIN FOR TERMINAL CANCER PATIENTS
S,ydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 3 Jan 80 p 4~
[Report by Shaun McIlraith, Medical Correspondent] _
[Text] State Health Ministers are expected to consider this year a recommend-
ation that the ban on heroir~ be lifted so that it can be used to relieve pain
in terminal cancer patients.
- T'he recommend'ation for its "We can see bolh sides of the
usa under strict hospital conVol argument," Dr McEwin said.
comes from the country's top "There is quitc a strong differ-
medical advisory body, the ence of opinion among medical
National Health and Medical people.
Reseazch Council. "Some people believe newer
To keep close check on drugs are just us effective.
atocks and ensure none was Some older doctors with ex-
diverted to illegal use, hospital pericncc of heroin bcfore it was
pharmacists would be expected banned believe no othor drug is
to dispense no more than one as effecNve in aecuring relief
day'a supply at a time for each from pain," said Dr McEwin.
patient. The State Health Ministers
The council believes heroin are expected to discuss the
should be used oniy for patients NHRMC recommendat~on at
who cannot obtaia pain relief their May meeting.
from other dr~gs. One of the council's reasons
The move ~'ill require We ap- for recommending heroin is
~.proval oF 'Che State Government that, in its view, it is less nau-
bocauee the cirug ia toEalty pro- seating to some cancer patients
- ` hibited. than other drugs. .
It has also decided there is
Australia 1s, siso oae of many no need to hold a clinical trial
aations which have w;ned an before approving its use for ae-
interflarional canvention aBreeing lected cancer patients.
to outlaw the manufaetura of In so doing it has relied on a
, heroin in their countriea. report by the British Twycross
� But wpplies can ba obtained committap confirming the place
fcom a heroin-producing of heroin in the control of
country by aubmitting estimates cancer pain.
of legal requirements to the However, the director, of the
Tnternadonal Narcotics Gontroi NSW State Cancer Cuuncil, Dr
Board. Gordon Sarfaty, snid yesterda
The NSW Health Commis- that the Twycross committee
sion has not yet made a recom- had considered only orally
mendation to its Ministers, Mr administered heroin in the so-
Stewart, on ~hether NSW called Brompton mixture which
should free heroin for use by also contained cocaine, alcohol
some terminal cancer patients. and an anti-emetic.
The chairmxn, Dr Roderick T'he committee had found no
McEwin, said yesterday that difference in the efficacy of the
the commission regarded it as Brompton mixutre and mor-
"a vety difficult, delicate deci- phine given orally, Dr Sarfaty
sion:' said.
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AUSTRALIA
~ VICTORIA GOVERNMENT QUESTIONS, STUDIES ODYSSEY FUNDING
Payments to Founder
Melbourne THE AGE in English 16 Jan 80 p 3
[Text] The founder of Odyssey House
in America, Dr. Judianne Den-
~en-Gerber will get $24,000 a
year fcom the James l:~cGratb
Foundation, controller of the
Odvssey House project in Aus-
tralia.
In published accoun2s of the
foundatlon in New South Wales
for the year ended June 30,1979,
ndyssey House in America was
paid $37,082 in affiliaUon service
lees: ~
The executive afficer Por' Nhe
foundation and ex~cutive vica-
president of Odyssey House in
New South Wales, Nir. Milton
Lugar, said yesterday 512.000 of
this was a consulta~ion fee for
Dr. Densen-Gerber.
Mr. Luger said Dr. Dettsen-
Gerber visited Australia twice a
year to supervise the progress of
Odyssey, rev~ew case Aistories,
attend fund-raisin~ functions and
lecc,~re staft.
The chairman ot the foundatior
In Victoria, Mr. Peter Thomson,
. said Odyssey House in Melbournp
would pay Dr. Densen-Gerber
$12,000 for her psyehiatric ser-
vices.
In a pztition to the Victorian
Government the foundation esti�
mated that up to $30,000 arould
be paid �to Odyssey House in Am-
erica, includina Dr: Densen�
Gerber's fee.
Tl!e Melbourne Odyssey House
~l~t i~ expected Co st~nt ogera-
ting later this year.
The Stabe Government ~as
agreed to fiind �the ptoject on a
rhree-to-one b~sis.
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Dr. Densen-Gerber founded
Odysaey Houae, a drvd rehabili-
~ tation Drojeot, in Amer[ca in 19fi6.
't'hero ue 1~ o~ntra ln fiv~ i1S
Statee. .
Mr. Luger ee~A t1~e fee tor Dr.
bensen-Gcrber and the mone~
spent oa~, bringicrg experts to Aus-
tnaiia, was "a drop . in tne
buc'k~t" compared to the expen-
diture of $607,723 to run �the
NSW Odyssey programme ]ast
year. _ . ~
Mr. Luger said there wer~ 132
residents in t~he foundation's
Campbelitown premises.
He said ~the NSW Odyssey
Houed was Gosting about $67;000
a i~na+th to n~n: and was losing
527~000 a month. .
This. weelc membera ot the
fointdatian ~net the NSW Premier,
Mr. Wraa, to discuss an inrraase
in ftinditrg frotn the N5W Drug
arnd` Aloohol A~ority:
MP H~.s Second Thoughts
h~~:lf~oiir�nrr 'l'HC; Af;E~, in ~n~r].ish 17 Jan 80 p~
~'I'~~xt. ~
A Liberal MP who called criticisms of ~ Udyssey had ceschini said: "Is it more
On the Government at the been overstated". than coincidence that Mr.
' weekend to dro ~ts su Mr. WiUiams said: Williams has relracted
p P' "Odyssey shoyld be given statementg he made two
poct for Odyssey House a twayear triai period in days previousty, immedi-
has agreed that the pro- Victoria." ately after being invited to
ject should be given a 'T~ A8~' ~e 8?~%~ Mr. Thomson's o~lce?
cwo-year trial.' support to the OdyssPy "Was pressure brou~Nt to
The member for poncas= appe~� bear on 4VIr. Wiiliams to so
~er, Mr. Wiiliams, met Mr. On Sunday, Mr. WilUams radically change his point
Peter Thomson, chairman said he wanted the Govern- of view?
of the dames N[cGrath ment to inquire into aliega- "Until the ~precise terms
Foundation in Victoria, tions made ap,ainaL the of the agreement between
which will run pdygsey Odyssey JoBdtubd L? the James McGrath Founda-
House in Melbourne. ~1e~i~� tion and Odyssey House In-
Mr. William9 said Tt?e Lowea F:enty and stitute oP New York are
terday he raised several Templestowe residenta' made. pubilc'.thet+e wili.be
questions about Odyssey BrouP which oppooes t1~e lingering doubts as #o the
organisation and finance in establishment of an Odys. pe+~p~y~y op ~~~ng
Kew South Wales and in seY House drug t+ehabillta� Government�supplled funds
che United States. tion centre in Low~er plenty oversede to a body which
He said he was happier Yesterday criticised Mr. is under investigation in the
than he liad been and ~~A ~Iliams s action. ' United States ?or misure op
number of apparently harsh Chairman Mr. Ja~u1 Frttn- (~~r~~~ ~
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AUSTRALIA
NEW SOUTH ',~ALES ANTIDRUG PROGRAM FOUND INADEQUATE
Sydney `I'f~ SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 14 Jan 80 p 6
[Editorial: "Drugs--and Money"]
[Text] IT I3 becoming clear that the funds
ava.ilable to the NSW Drug and
Alcohol Authority are inadequate.
One view is that they are ludicrously
small when compared with the scale -
of probiems to be faced. Certainly
some drug addiction agencies are
calling far more money, but in
- present circumstances they do not -
seem likely to get it from the ~ta.te
Government - at least for some time.
The authority has a$2.7 milli~n
.budget for the present f nancial year,
but has to spread this sum so as to
cover 54 NSW organisations dealing
with drug and alcohol rehabilitation,
drng education and research. Clearly,
when it prepares its 1980 Budget, the.
Government will have to rethink its
whole'approach.
'That will be an unsnviable task, as
even the most cursory study of the
recent report of the NSW Royai
Commission into. Drug Trafficking
will demonstrat~. Mr Ji.~stice Wood-
ward found the subject of dr�ug _
diversion programs "bristling with
d:~fficulties." He thought that a pro-
gram capable of suiting even a
majority of those committed to it
rnight be incapable of achievement'
. and resuit in considerable waste of
money, manpower and time. Ne~
v~rtheless, he did not recommend that
tFie present drug diversion scheme,
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administered--py the Health Com-
mission of NSW, should be ab-
andoned. Rather, he thought it should
be restructure~ in the light of 1�ssons
learned from a pilot sGheme soon to
come into operation.
Mr J~;stice Woodward's report con-
tained a number of severe . and
~ disturbing strictures about the present
program of drug diversion, as ad-
ministered by drug referral centres. In
' his view, it could not be expected to
have any significant effect on the
cause of drug addiction in this State. ~
He concluded that the scheme was
~ inadequate in conception and op-
eration. In his view, the program has
always lacked a sufficiently de~ned
set of guidelines and objectives; the
eight-week ireatment perio is "far
too short;" in some pr s the
provision of care and therapy ~s "at a
very low ]evel;' the attendance of
people diverted to the programs is
_ "quite unsatisfactory;" and the pro-
grams are incapable of audit.
These are only a few of the
critieisms expressed in the report.
plainly, m~ny of the problems are
administrative. It is obvious that the
Government has already recognised
this and begun to take remedial -
measures. It is a pity that the need for
this was not properly understood
early in 19T`l, when the drug diversioq
scheme began. Nor, perhaps, was the
extent of the problem that had to be
faced. On the basis of experience,
both here and in other countries, it
should now be possible to do better,
both in the continued .financing of
existing treatment facilities and in
- expanding those facilities to meet the
obvious demand. ~
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AUSTRALIA
COMMISSION INTO DRUGS SUBMITS FINAL REPORT TO CANBERRA
_ Canberra TI~ AUSTRALIAN in English 16 Jan 80 p 3
[R eport by John Dux] _
Text T1I1~: lederal~ RoYaI l~andling of tlic report, par-
~ ~ ticularly in relation to
C'ommi5sion inlo Urugs has tablingitinparliament.
urgeci tlie (~overnment to He said the report dealt
give national ]aw enforre- comprehensivcly ~vith the
menl agencies a gt'C~ileC ~rug problem in Australia.
role in the fi ht a ainst the "The states will be kept
g g' well informed of thc Com-
illeg~l n~rcotlcs trade. monwealth's intentions, with
7t, i:; Ucliecccl the commis- a ~~iew to achieving a co-
sioii recommended the set- ordinat,ed apporoach;' he
tin up o[ a, national crime said.
F' ~Tl~e Government will ~ive
inl~lli~;aicc c~ntrc to mon- lirQ~nG considcratian to Lhe
itor dru~; tr;~tJickiag and subs~antivc r~commcnda-
dru~;-rclatcd crim~. tions in thc report. This will
Copics of tl~e tinal report of invol~�c consultation with Lhe
thc commission. headed by States and the Northern ~
Mr Just,ice Williams of the Terri6or,y.
Qucci~sland Supreme Court, ^Last :November the Gov-
~eerc presented yesterday to ernment acted on the prin-
the Federal Government. cipal recommer,dations in
Mr Justice Williams visited the interim report by the
the Go~�ernor-General: Sir roYal canmission, which _
Zelraan Cowen, at Admiralty related to the disbanding of
Housc in Sydney to officialiy the ""Federal NarcotiCs
= l~and ovcr tiie report. Bureau and the transfer of
Copies ~vere then circulated its functions to the Austra-
to thc Prime Minister, Mr ~ian Federal Police, with the
Frascr, i,he Minister for Bureau of Customs continu-
Business and Consumer At- ing Lo exercise its preventa-�
Sairs, Mr Garland, the Minis- tive role at the customs
tcr lor Admiiiistrative Servi- barrier."
cc. Mr McLea~. a,nd the At� It is expected an inter-
torne~~-Gciieral, Senator departmental committee
Durack. will be set up to study the
PROBLEM mammoth report.
After analysis, reCOm-
ThF report. of iour voIumes mendations based on the
totailing more tl~an 1500 report will be submitted to
paRes and containing a c�on- Cabinet, but public release is
iidential annex, makes 246 not expected before Parlia-
ircommendations. ment sits next month.
Mr Fraser said last night It is believed the report
the Gocernment ~eould give also:
ur~ent consideration to the
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ELABORATES on criticism
ot the Federal Narcotics
Bureau whir,h was contained
in thc interim report. .
RECO~I~IML�'NDS m~re co-
operation between Common-
wealth and State drug law
enforcement bodies.
URC~ES greater ]ialson witli
ioreign narcotics agencies.
- Canberra is expected to be
nominated as the site for the -
' national crime ir.telligence
centre.
The centre would 2iaise
with all State dr~,tg squads
and undercover agents in a
national drive to eliminate
the illegal trade.
Federal ]aw enforcement
authorities have been push-
ing for increased co-opera- -
tion with the States, and
senior officials are believed
to have met yufetty ~vith
~ State drug enforcers over
the past few months to
formulate a joint effort.
The new Australian Fed-
eral Police, under Sir Colin
Woods, is believed to have
already made plans for a
~nore active role in an Aust-
ralia-wide clamp-down on
drugs.
The Williams commission is
continuing its investigation
into allegations in Queens-�
land that politicians and
police have been involved in
, illegal drug dealings.
in last November's interim
report, Mr Justice Witliams
attacked the operations uf
Lhe forrner Narcotics
Bureau, saying it "is not a
]iighly efficient organisa-
� tion".
He recommended that it be
disbanded and its role taken
over by the Australian Fed-
erai, Police. This was later
done. .
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AUSTRALIA -
MOF?E AUTONOMY PLANNED FOR QUEENSLAND DRUG 11EEPENDENCY SERVICE
Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English 17 Jan 80 p 3
[Text] The Alcohol and Drug Dependency Service will have more autonomy, but
will l~e supervised by the State Health Minister, Sir William Knox.
This follows an investigation into the service, prompted by last yeax's re-
si~nation of the director, Dr Alan Freed.
The service will be d.esignated as a separate Health Depaxtment branch.
Sir William released a statement yesterday on plans for the service, which
wer.e ~.pproved by State Cabinet this week.
He esid !t had been R o y e 1 Australlan and Biven nutonomy in devel- Department offic~aL.
agreed ln prlnoiple thst a New ~ Zealana Co}lege of opinp and executing the
consultsttve committee Psychkitrlsts and the g~~s and obJectives. H~ ~omplained that
be formed to provlde in- Public Hospital Adminis- rthe aexVice~,a., dlrect,~rate
irnmstion and, adv(ce to tratlon. .w a e:,~bEi~ "by-passed,
Sir Willlam callerl. for ~
achieve the goat~ .of pre_ the investigation into the con~,~ wen being
veqtion snd tnatment. ~tr Willtsm eald he�be- drawn~tOp Health De-
8ir Wflliafi w(11 ap_ 11e�ed the aervice wonlQ organisation, lriana~e- p$rtmekit,ofiicials on in-
plny s.vltal ralS in tsck- mer~t and operation of corr8ct~~information, and
p o i n t the comttiittee Iing slcobol snd drug de- the Alcohol~ and Drug gome atatY felt~ they, were
members and detern~ine pendence. under attack~ irom se~
ita.rolea and functfons.' Dependency Service, fol- ,~or public aervants.
He slso must apptbve It would be concerned lowing Dr Freed resigna-
the servlce's programs, with prevention as well t~on ~ast October. . ~ ' He'said bydgeL restrio-
es treatment. ~ tiona had .sifect~ed the
Members Reasons , �r tbe s~a~m
O t h e r recommenda- Detmclt~ttae' and Treat-
Dr Freed, who lster tions approved by . Capi- ment ('rent~ in Roma
aithdrew his resigr~ation, net include agreement Dr Freed cited, aa rea- _:$treek
t'h a t at least three ~ns for resigning, the Dr Freed ]ater with-
witl chair the sev~n- primery roles of the ser- A~blem oi "eeriring two d r e w his resi
m e m b e r consultative masters" -.aa a profes- y g Bn$tion,
conimittee, vice would be in the fleld sa in he waa satisfied
ot reaources, treatment sionai catering to the that the investigation
One .member wil! be and prevention. needs of patients and prould be thorough.
appotnted from each of thei~ familiea, and as a Dr Freed was im~ited to
the Police Department.._ Sir Wiiliam satd that Public servant. Queenalat~d in 19713 fol-
voluntary organisations, once he had approved He snid he had diffi- laWing his sucress in
the business communlty, the programs, the ser- culties havin his views tre~ting drug ac,dicts at
the Queenaland Univer- g Newcastle-upon-Tyne in
sitv medicine faculty, the vice's direr,tor wouid be heard bp senior Health
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MELBOUFiNE POLICE CAMPAIGN IN ST KILDA UNSUCCESSFUL
Melbourne THE AGE in English 18 Jan 80 p 9
[Article by Chief Police Reporter Lindsay Murd.och: "St. Kilda's Streets
of Deaths"]
[Excerpt] Last May, police began a week-long operation to try to "clean up"
St. Kilda, a city with a floating population of 55,000 to 65,000. It didn't -
work.
The operation, code named Zeta, scattered habitual offenders, but they re-
t:urned soon afterwards. Police say there are now six major heroin dealers
operai,in~; in the street. And. 30 to 4~0 addicts sell poor quality heroin to
I~e able to buy for themselves.
Prostitutes who are not drug addicts have been forced from the area, which
has beeri given the rather purpl~ tag of "Devil's 'I`riangle" by police--the
area bounded by Fitzroy, Acland and Barkly streets. "Prostitutes of old would
riow be too scared to stand on a corner in St. Kilda," Senior Sergeant Bert
' Caudion said yesterday.
"~~r Years a6o th.e pros work- satisfted clients on a dirty mat- ~
ing the sfreets were aged 25 to tress on the ,floor of a vacaat
some ot them housewives house, or in the ~back of a, car.
eerning extra money whiie the "All they want is money to get
~usband was at work," he satd. another hit of heroin." i
�'Phey were decent ppople. You Fitzroy Street shop owners,
could talk .to ti~em, Tod~y, ~tve taxi drivers who work in the
prostftutes are aged 17 xo 25; area and police agree drug dea1.
their lives are one drug ilx to an- ~ng, prostitution and crime is
ot~er." worsening in Che 870 hectares of
Sergeant Gaudion, oRicer-in- ~ St. Kilda police district.
charge of S~ Kilda police, said ~~tes of .the amount ot
most of the 500 prostitutes known d~BR sold vary, but some polke
to operate in the St. Kilda area say up to $500,000 worth ot
spend the;r I.ives in a dru e~ heroin is passed in a weelc: Police
daze. "Most pay out about ~400 admit their efforts are doing
a day on heroin," he said, ]ictle.
"Several years ago the g9r1~s "We arrest an addict for pbs-
working the streets rented cleaq session; he or she may appear in
rooms to take their clients." Now court, be ~bailec! and back out in
the prostitutes were addicts who I the street the, same day,~~ ~r�
geant Gaudion said.
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"We alwnys get the addicts Police s1y thry h~vP found her�
the ones bein}; used by ~he sm~irt oin mixrd wilh arsrnir, r~�rn~~ni
dealerti tr~ handle Ihc dru~~r. The du,l ur .r�u~,ar. Ibiusl "hcruin" iti
smarties d~, nut iriurh Ihe ilru~;�;, only ahnut six pcr ci~nl pw�~~. One
so it is harder to catch them." Y~~ung woman went blind after in-
jecting what she thought was her-
5enior police believe some of oin.
Victoria's "very influential" Police say it is not uncommon
citizens are involved in hard for addicts to inject heroin
drugs. through the eyeball .to� try ho get
In St. Kilda, the addicts and enhanced pleasure.
pushers have a bag of tricks to 'fhe drug dealers have a sub-
use against the ~police. A regular scription system, pooling money
Lrick in Fitzroy Street is for an to send a courier abroad for
addict to approach a~patrolling drugs.
policeman and tell him about a The St, Kilda ccime w~ye has
drug deal. had an effect on the city's resi-,
The addicts know that if a deal- denfs. "A lot of respectable people
er is caught in the act, the police these days want to live closer to
will be busy questioning and the city," Sergeant Gaudion said.
charging the offender for at least "They are buying older-style
an hour. By informing on some� houses in the area and renovat-
one else, they are free to deal ing them. But the area doesn't
themselves. c,fiange, and they start complain- ,
St. Kilda police say the typical ing about the environment."
road to death by addiction is: One Acla.nd Street house owner
wa~ recently approached in the
a ynung teenager snifts glue [hen street hy two prostitutes who of-
graduates to "poppinR pills" bar- fered to take him back to a house
biturates and amphetamines at $2 nearby. it turned out to be his
a ~im~�; aller th~i~, m,irijuana, [Men uwn; they had bcoken in and set
hcruin Cor ~4(I a r.apsule. up business.
Life can be like that in the trl�
an~le.
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ausT~LZa
F'EDE:~AL POLICE CHIEF SAYS NARCOTICS BUREAU 'MALIGIJED'
Metbourne THE AGE in English 23 Jan 80 p 5
[Report from Kerry Wakefield]
[Tex.t] Canberra.--~he Federal Police Chief, Sir Colin Woods, yesterday upheld
the reputation of the now-defunct Federal Naxcotics Bureau, claiming it had
been "gravely maligned" by charges of corruption.
And he backed up his faith by revealing that the newly formed Federal police
had reemployed three-quarters of the Narcotics Bureau--about 150 men.
Claims of wholesale corruption amongst bureau's ageiits jus~L caere not true,
Nir. Colin said.
"'I'hc:y di.dn't, desez�ve ii,. Lots of' injustice has L~een done to� them," he sai.d.
A storm of controversy broke around the bureau last year when the murder of a
New Zealand couple was linked to claims that a Naxcotics Bureau agent was
selling information to an international drug ring.
_ The Federal Government order'ed cal new drugs strategy aimed~ at
a police investigation~ -~till n~t curbing the estimated $I00 million
complete - and the head of t,~e annual heroin trade, said yesterday
bureau, Mr. Harvey Bates, resigned, that people had been brau~ht, to
After further stinging eriticism just~cP over Yhe comrption.char~es.
was levelled at the bureau by the Two Narcotics Bureau officers
Williams Report into drags, it nuas were ct~arged late last year with
disbanded and ita d'tlties ~anded conspiring to disclose drug in'forma-
bver te tlze Feder~l poHce, tion. ~
A~Iced lrow tie ki~evv 1~at !!~e Some of the burcau agents~ wece
btaeau was hon~;st, Sir,C~ilin.~ worried that they would be demoted
that he ~~ad '10'eed his� oam to clerks and cleaners in the new
to flnd ou~ Federal police, accorcHng to gir
Sir Colin, in an ltifiei+vigq~ q~ Colin.
'The Age' yesterday, siso ~isclosed But the intelligence skills ef the
that ~,e was hoping to extend l~is aRents wovid be deveioped in line
three-,year appointment aa head of with his desire to have what he
the Federal police. ~~is a"th9n" police torce.
The former head oi the Narcotics W~11e he implied yesterday that
~ureav, Mr. Bates, is believed to be this could mean cuta in numbers in
in line for an internataonal s~me sections, he explain~ed that he
posting. wantpd to strearnline and tighten hia
S~ir Co1in, who is ptanning a radi- new dru~ scpuacL
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AUSTRAL7A
, ,
~ ~ . ; ,
, BRIEFS ~ : ;.~~'i '
` 'S .r
HEROIN BY MAIL--A Queens's Counsel alleged in court ye, erday that~'t~~ere was a
conspiracy to import heroin to Australia by ma,il from ~l~ta:~ The'~fie~'b~l'~Y was
sent in envelopes in 10-gram lots, NLr Chester Porter, QC, t~dltl' St James~ Court n
of Petty Sessions. Mr Porter alleged that the sender of the heroin was a man
named Bernard Moore. Moore posted envelopes containing the heroin to genuine
a.dc~resses in Australia. The names of the addressees were fictitious. Someone
at the address, on receipt of a letter~ would maxk it "Not known at this ad-
dress" if people were hot on the trail. If not, the envelopes could be passed
on to the principal conspirators, Desmond Alfred Michael Bennion and Kenneth
Graham Harrison, who could sell it to addicts in Australia. The seven people
in court yesterday were chaxged with conspiring to import heroin into Australia
between June 30, 1978, and SeptEmber 24, 1979. They axe: Cassandra Patricia
Van Kyke, of Waikanda Crescent, Whalan; Kenneth Graham Harrison, of Waikanda
Cresecent~ Whalan; Barry John Bennion, ~7, of Sackville Street, Ingleburn; WiI-
_ ma May Tyson, w4~, of Evans Way, Minto; Lynette Pamela Bennion, 30, of Sackville
Street, Ingleburn; Kerrie Ann Sue Eckford, of Hughes Street, Cabrama.tta; and
Terrence John Phillip Williams, 24, of Linga.yen Avenue, Lethbridge Paxk. Des-
mond Alfred Michael Bennion, of Wilton Road, Doonside who was to have appeared
in Count yesterday, did not answer bail. [Excerpts] [Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING
HERALD in English 15 Jan 80 p 2]
HEROIN IMPORTER JAILED--A fi~herman who had a change of heaxt while on a drug
errand to Malaysia was gaoled for four yeaxs and fined $3000 in the 5upreme
Court yesterday. The court was told that Maxk Henry Abbott (25~~ of Sackville
Terrace, Scaxborough, was offered $20,000 in September 19?8 to bring a quantity
of heroin into Australia. He set out from Perth for Penang and returned to
Australia. Nearly a year later when interviewed by a narcot3cs agent Abbott
said when he had returned to Australia he had told the friend who had offered
him the money that he had been unable to do the job. Two drug chaxges against
Abbott were dismissed but he was sentenced on a charge of having attempted to
import a traffickable amount. He must serve a ininimum 18 months. [Excerpt]
[Perth THE WEST AUSTRALI'AN in English 12 Jan 80 p 20]
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i~IORE HEROIN OFF'ENl1ERS--A South Australian Supreme Court judge yesterday de-
scribed drugs bosses as cowards who hid behind their pushers and p~ofited with-
- out being caught. Mr Justice White made his comments when sentencing two rnen
after both were found guilty of dealing in heroin. He said they had traded
in heroin with an estimated street value of $16,000. Mr Justice White sen-
tenced Grantly Hooper, 27, laborer, of Adelaide to five years jail and Gilbert
Carey, 23, a,lso of Adelaide, to three yeaxs for dealing in Yieroin on March 14
last year. Caxey pleaded not guilty and. Hooper pleaded guilty. Mr Justice
- White said neither man was high in the heroin dealing hierarchy. It was the
cowards who hid behind and manipulated addicts who made the big pr.ofits and
were rarely caught. [Excerpt] [Canberra TEiE WE.'FILEND AUSTRALIAN in English
12-13 Jan 80 p 5]
FORMER ADDICT JAILED--A former heroin addict, ?2, who pleaded guilty in�the _
Crimina,l Court yesterday to having possessed heroin for sale, was jailed f'or
, seven years. Mr Justice Andres jailed Brian Beale, an unemployed laborer, of
Farrax Street, Acacia Ridge and told him: "Addicta or not, heroin sellers will
be dealth with severely in this state." Mr Justice Andrews said Beale had been
a systematic trafficker in drugs. Beale pleaded guilty to having sold 4.Z1-8
grams of heroin on December 29, 1978; to having possessed $4?0 ha,d by way of
the commission of an offence; and. to having possessed a quantity of heroin for
sale; both on January 3 last year. Mr Justice Andrews jailed Beale for four
years on the first charge, for nine months on the second and. for seven yeaxs
on the third chaxge. He jailed Beale for six months on a canna,bis cha,rge;
all terms to be recurrent. [Excerpt] [Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English
8 Jan80p8]
BRISBANE DRUG L~ALERS--A man, 33, who ma.de a Christma.s cake containing canna,-
bis offered a slice to a policema.n, it was alleged in the Ma,gistrate's Court
yesterday. Before the court were Peter George Mimis, 33, unemployed, and
Alexa,nder Ashley McMeekin, 23, unemployed salesman, both of Archibald Street,
Fairfield. They jointly faced eight chaxges relating to possession, sale and
supply of cannabis and LSD. The prosecutor, Sen.-Sgt E. M. Murdoch, said it
would be alleged that the two men were paxtners in selling drugs in Brisbane.
He said 175 plastic bags of maxihua,na,, 16 foils of hashish and 45 "trips" of
LSD had been seized by police. It would be alleged that the defendants sold
various quantities of the drugs to police officers between December 11 and
December 27. [Excerpts] ~Brisba,ne THE COURIER-MAIL in English 1 Jan 80
P 18~
MARIHUANA GROWER CHARGED--Southport.--A man was chaxged in Southport Ma,gi-
strates Court yesterday with growing iJ50 maxihua,na plants on a cleared block
of land at Natural Arch in the Gold Coast hin.erland. Eugene Marek, 56, unem-
ployed of Natrua,l Arch, was also chaxged with having an unlicensed concealable
fireaxm, Police alleged the plants were watered by a network of irrigation
hoses and had a street value of tens of thousands of dollaxs. [Excerpts]
[Brisbane TF~ COURIER-MAII, in English 22 Jan 80 p 3]
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- QUEENSLAND MARIHUANA PLANTATION--More than 20,000 maxihua,na plants with an
estimated street value of several million dollaxs were found growing on a hec-
tare of land neax Ravenshoe in north Queensland, it was alleged in the Ma,gis-
trate's Court yesterday. The polic~ prosecutor, Sergeant R. Fennell, told the
court he opposed the grainting of bail to William Jasepth Middleton, 26, unem-
ployed stell fixer, of Moggill Road, The Gap. Middleton is chaxged with culti- .
vated cannabis at Sluice Creek, neax Ra.venshoe, between Januaxy 1 and December
~9. He faced additional chaxges yesterday with his brother, Thomas Owen Mid-
dleton, 19, unemployed steel fixer, of the same address. Both are chaxged with _
possession of cannabis last Frida,y for a purpose specified under the Health
Act. LExcerpts] [Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English 1 Jan $0 p 2]
DRUGS, MARIHUANA PLANTS STOLEN--Sydney: A ma,n carrying a knife escaped with
money and drugs after holding up a chemist shop in Randwick, in Sydney eastern
suburbs, yesterday. The hold-up occurred on the corner of Frenchman's and
St Maxk's Roads, Randwick, at 10.30 am. The man escaped with about $900 and
a qua.ntity of the drug mandrax. [Text] [Perth THE WEST AUSTRAI,IAN in English
7 Jan 80 p~] Canberra.--Backyaird maxijua,na, crops in Ca.nberra axe being up-
rooted, but it is not the palice who are responsible. Thieves axe reported
to have stolen several crops--just reaching maturity now--from the garden
plots and window-sills of the na,tiona,l capita,l. The culprits are pruning
plants, and in some cases up~ooting them whole for resale. [Excerpta]
[Melbourne THE AGE in English 12 Jan 80 p 3]
COMMISSION COMPLETES DRUG INQUIRY--The federal government says it has
accepted in principle the major reco~nendations of the ,just-released
Australian Royal C~mmission of inquiry into drugs. Preaenting the 1,700-
page reoort to Parliament, the federal health minister, Mr Mackellar, said
the goverzunent had accepted the inquiry's recommendation that Australia
should adopt a comprehensive national strategy against drugs, [Excerpt]
[OW191411 Melbourne Overseas Service in English 0710 GMT 19 Mar 80 OW]
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LONG-WANTED INTERNATIONAL TRAFFICKER ARRESTED
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORIJING POST in English 22 Feb 80 p 16
/Text/ � A~a ~nternational drug Two Hongkong rasidents,
tnff'~ckar who 6as ban on Hui Ying-hung and Tang
the wantod list t6roug6out Wai-hang, were eac6 sen- -
Asie for several yean was tenoed to 15 years iroprison-
arrated by customs off'~oera ment by the High Court in
in a Shemahuipo atreet last. Taiwan in connection with
nig6t. _ the seizure. �
He waa a11eB~Y Last night's arrests fol-
in a drugs tntuacdoa w6en I lowed month-long inquiriea
he wae cau~ht with iwo other by a s team of cuowou offi-
men, eouroea wid. cers, headed by Senior In-
A tin seized by the offiaen' epector K. L. Mak.
was found to oonuin 6olf a They believe that the seiz-
pound of No 4 heroin, a rare ed heroin, worth 5600,000 on
commodity in Hongkon~. the retail market, wea to be
, Cwtom officen later raid- blended into No 3 heroin for
ed thra flats in Yaumati, sale locally.
- Shartuhuipo an~ Tsinuhats~i T6e arratod men, aged
and seizad cheaticab uaed for betwan 43 and 48, were
blending :~eroin and a qutnti- early this morning being
ty of appamtus usually as- quest~oncd at customs head-
soeiated with the manufao- quartera.
ture and weighing of drn~c. -
Customa of6cers beliwe
thst at least one of the men
arre,~ted ia connectod with the
S3 million seizure of No 4
hemin in Taiwan last Novem-
ber.
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HOKG KONt.~
DRUG SMUGGLERS CF.AIGGE TACTl CS AT kAI TAK. AIRYURT
Ncm~; K.on~ SOU1'H CEIJ:NA MOKNING F(1ST in Er:~;lisY, 3 Mar 80 p 12
/Report by Tomir~y Lec,is in the column "Monday Focus"/
/Text/ Drug couriers have pound of heroin concealed in "We have no discrimina-
apparently changed their her vagina and in a sanitary tion. Our aim is to prevent
tactics in a bid to get nar- napkin she was wearing. drugs from being smuggled
cotics past authorities at Custom's Investigatiohs into Hon$kong."
Kai Tak. Division head Superintendent He said officers at the sir-
Tong Kang-sing said the port conducted each month
They seem to have aban- trend to smuggling drugs by about 4,500 body-searches of
doned the use .of false-bot- internal concealmcnt is gain- overseas travellers, particu-
tomed suitcases and various ing strength, especially in Eu- larly thosc from drug suspect-
other methods already known ~o~, ed ports.
to customs officers. He . said drug-fighters There are more than 70
Urug Investigation Unit throughout the world are con- incoming flights� daily and
of~cers at the airport recently cerned with the mathod as it dbout I 0,000 passengers
arrested three people who, is impossible to body-search discmbarking here.
aPter being searched and later so many travellers daily. "We cannot body-search
examined at a hospital, were "These methods are r~ot all of them and if we did we
Found to have hidden heroin new, they were used in the old would anger genuine travell-
pn their bodies. days by gold smugglers. ers; ' Sen Supt Prisk said.
The first case was djscov- ~gut it's new on the drugs He estimated that about
ered carly this year and in- ~'ront and these are the first g.~ passengers arrived here
volved a, man rcwrning from ~hree cases we've dealt with from suspected drug ports
a trip in Bangkok. ~n Hongkong rcgarding and that about 25 per cent
DI U officers searched his drugs," he said. would be body-searched.
baggage and made a body
search of him but found no The Customs head of the Mcunwhile intelligence
si n of dru s the sus cted ~nvestigation Bureau, Senior sources say the Golden Trian-
8 8 y ~ Superintendent James Prisk, B~e area of Southeast Asia
he was carrymg. said his offiars at the airport reaps about 400 tons of
The man was then taken had made many drug sei- opium a year of which 100
to hospital where he was zures, since the joint customs tons are for home consump-
examined by doctors who and police unit was set up in tion.
found I h ounccs of heroin ~une. The remaining 300 tons
bases wrapped in a condom He said that because of ~nake about 29 tons of heroin
and concealed in his rectum. the couriers' apparent new - 20 tons for addicts in Asia,
And earlier this month, a tactics, customs officers had seven for Europe and Canada
man and woman were stop- ~n ordered to step up body- and two for . the United
ped and body-searched on searches on all suspects. States.
their arrival from Bangkok.
The officers found half an "My ofCcers pick people was also learned that
ouncc of heroin hidden be- for body-searches at random ~ausc of poor crops in the
tween the man's legs. The irrespcctive of their race, na- triangle last year~ and a re-
woman was found to have a tionality, and whether rich or sulting~ shortage of supplies,
drug traffickers have been
looking for new suppliers in
Pakistan, 'Iran and Afganis-
tan.
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HONG KONG
BRI.EFS
DRt;G SE]ZURE STA1'ISTIGS--Police conducted 3,048 raids on illegal gambling
establishments, vice dens and drug divans last month. A police spokesman
said yesterday that these operations led to the arrest of 1,459 people
who were subsequently taken to court on various charges. Speaking on the
anti-drug front, the spokesman said 368 people were rounded up during
1,232 raids on premises and search operations conducted in the streets.
Drug seizures included 8.33 kgs of opium, 971.5 grams of heroin, 25.8
grams of morphine and 23 grams of barbitone. /Excerpts/ /Hong Kong
SDUTH CHINA MORIVING POST in English 26 Feb 80 p 7/
HEROIN BASE SEIZURE --Narcotics Bureau officers yesterday seized $5 million
worth of heroin base following a dramatic car chase in Kowloon. The chase,
involving two police cars and two poli.ce motorcycles, also resulted in a
crash in which four detective constables received slight injuries. The
collision occurred when the police target--a taxi--attempted to evade the
pursuing cars on Cheong Wan Road flyover, Hunghom. A police car crashed
into the taxi and the taxi driver and a Thai passenger were arrested.
Police said the seized drugs--five lbs of heroin base--were found in the
taxi. The base could be cut into 20 lbs of No 3 heroin, worth $250,000
per lb on the retail market. The drugs are believed to have been en route
from a drug syndicate's store to one of its outlets. Narcotics Bureau
officers were last night conducting a series of follow-up raids in Kowloon.
Up to late last night, however, no further arrests had been made. Police
are checking the background of the Thai man and his local connections.
Officers said yesterday's operation was the result of a month-long inquiry
into the distribution of heroin in Kowloon. LExcerpts/ 1Hong Kong SOUTH
CHINA MORIJING POST in English 22 Feb 80 p 1/
RAW OPIUM HAUL--Customs officers have seized about 32 kilograms of raw
opium during a routine search of a Panamanian freighter. The drugs could
have fetched $2.45 million on the retail market if converted into prepared
opium. Customs officers boarded the Khadijaan shortly after it had arrived
from Karachi on Friday morning. Foll~wing a four-hour search, the officers _
found in an unlocked store three sacks of cotton waste. They opened the
sacks and found 26 bags of raw opium inside. It was the bipzgest s~izure of
drugs made by customs officers so far this ear. /Text? /Hong Kong SOUTH
CHINA MORIVING POST in English 2 Mar 80 p 1~
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REGIONAL DRUG CO1VF'ERENCE--Five Hong Kong experts are attending ~ Pacific
regional conference in Australia aimed at reducing drug and alcohol abuse.
They are Mr K. L. Stumpf of the Hong Kong Christian Service, Mr James
Ch'ien and Mrs Virginia Lo of the Society for the Aid and Rehabilitation
of Drug Abuse, Major Glen Gilen of the Salvation Army, Mr Ho Hing-keung
of Caritas and Mr Raymond Ngan of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. -
Mr Stumpf will leave today while the others are already in Canberra. He
will present a paper on the role of preventive education in drug abuse
control, while Mr Ch'ien will deliver two papers nn drug dependence and
treatment methods. The conference, which opens next week, is the first
of its kind among countries in the Pacific region, and aims at fostering
the interchange of information and consultation. /Text/ /Hong Kong
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 29 Feb 80 p 9T
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SINCLAIR TRIAL CONTINUES, SYDNEY DETECTIVE TESTIFIES
Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English 31 Jan 80 p 6
_ [Text]
BANGKOK (AAP-Reute~). - Poliee were told an Austrolian re~ident
of Bengkok wa~ ~upplying heroin to aou~ien brin9ing Z3 kg of tl~e
drug to Auff~alia ~~ery two month:, a Sydney datecti~?a told the
C~iminal Court here yetterday.
- ~t. Barry Dunn, of dealing were put uader thoritiea st airports nor
the New 8auth Waled eurveillance in J~rlq, 1978. airlinea hnd been given
c r i m i n a 1 inteUiRence So~e of theQSi, how- the names of thoee under
undt, eaid polioe were told ever, had been able to auapidon.
the au~pp}ier ~vae Willism make trips autside Aus- He d~d 81n-
Charles 8inclair, 86, s t r s 1 i a withaut police ciair's couneel that only
8eas@tolc bar owner. knowledge. ' one of the two 8ydney
~He d~d not reveel the ~o Sqdney men under suepecte, $dwtn Williara
~~~~f~" aurveillance, Arthur 8 m i t h, had suggested
~O~' 6tanley Smith and hfa that Binolair, Hsyward
Sf~oisir, formeriy of brother, Edwin W1111am and P'ellows were !n-
~ey, fa on triai with 8mith, had each made volved in druga. -
ta~o other Australisns, Lao or three trlps to He ~1d s record ot.five
Pau1 HSYW~d. ZA, a ru8- Thsiland in late 1978 interviewa he had with
by ]eegue footballer, and wlthout police knowl- gmith wps aent to Bsng-
Wsrna Fellowa, 27, a edge. kok sfter the thne men
~~~Z~ 8gt Dunn said that were arreatsd iti'Oatober,
h a v i n g attem}~te8 ~ Aeither immigration au- 1978.
~nuggle 8.4 kg of heroin
fe~om Thailand to Aus-
tt~alia.
- All i~sve pleaded not
~~tY�
A Thsi taxi d~iver,
K i t t 1 Unesp, cherged
witl~ thetn, ltas also
Pdeaded not guiltq.
' ~HsYward sn~ P'ellowt
hsve pleeded gviltq to
. ths leaser aharge oi ille-
Ss1 poeaesalon oi the he-
mtn.
5gt. Duan asid th$t
eeveral people in M~stra-
Us suapectcd ot d.ivg
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THA~LAND
OPIUM SMUGGLERS ARRESTED IN HAT YAI
Bangkok DAO SIAM in Thai 10 Feb 80 pp 1, 16
[Article: "Opium Smuggling Gang Arrested'~]
[Text] Hat Yai police made a surprise raid and seized
opium in Hat Yai City that had been smuggled in by a large
gang that has been dealirig in opium for a long time. A total
of seven peopie were a~rested. Howevps, before being arrested,
these people flushed some of the opium down the toilet and,
therefore, only a fraction of the opium was seized.
A DAO SIAM reporter in Hat Yai district reported that, bas~d
on an investigation by Police Lieutenant Colonel Amphorn
Phaili, the head police inspector at the Hat ~'ai district
police station, smuggled opium was regularly bought and sold ~
secretely in room No 302 of the Taipeh Hotel located on
Padung Phakdi Road, Lane 2, New Market, Hat Yai district,
Songkhla Province. Thus, at 0600 hours on 9 February,
~ Pol~~ce Lieuterzant Colonel Amphorn Phaili ordered Police
Major Surawet Sirinnut, an inspector, and Lieutenart Sorawit -
~ Phadungchai, a deputy inspector, to take a force of policemen
and arrest the people.
When the police force reached the Taipeh Hotel, they ~rent
_ dir ectly to the room mentioned above and knocked on the door
for a long time before the door was opened. The
police swarmed into the room. The search by the police _
found 200,000 baht ~n cash, which was money used to buy
opium, a 38-caliber pistol without a registration number and
an 18-round ammunition clip and a portion of the opium. The
reason why the police seized only a smail amount of opium
was that the suspects flushed the opium down the toil~et
in order to destroy the evidence. The police arrested a total
of seven suepeets: Mr Dam Chaisirwong, Mr Bunw~onq Chaisiwong,
Mr Bunchu Chaikwang, Mr Pidan Punam, Mr Sakhorn Dammakha, Mr
Ak Phenwan and Mr Buntheng Wichachai. They Were turned over
to Police Lieutenant Prachum Phetphimphan, the officer on duty
at the Hat Yai district station, for further handling of the
case.
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THAI LA1~JD
,
MARIHUANA SHIPMENT SEIZED IN UDORN THANI
Bangkok DAO SIAM in Thai 27 Jan 80 pp 1, 2
[Article: ~~Marihuana Loaded on Truck In Preparation for
Shipment Abroad'~]
[Text~ A large shipment of marihuana weigY~ing more than 4 tons
and valued at 50 million bath was seized. It was loaded on~o a
10-wheel truck along with a load of cassavas and was to be
taken to a deserted airfield in preparation for shipment ~
abroad. A major deai~r foilowed behind closely in a car.
When he ~aw police stop the truck, he quickiy sped away and
disappeared.
, At 1600 hours on 25 January, Police Colonel Thongchai
Thar~phak, the chief of police at T.L. 4, together with
, Police Lieutenant Colonei Panya Sathanaphanit, an inspector
- at T.L. 3, Headquarters 4, Lieutenant Praphan Phuphani,
S ergeant Major Wirot Buaphakham, Sergeant Major Sawat Roengsut -
~nd � Sergeant Major Chaloemchai Phiriyasin, who are
stationed at T.L. 3, Hea~.quarters 4, and members of the
highway patrol in Khao San viilage, Nonsung commune,
Udorn Thani district, Udorn Thami Province, followed and
stopped a 10-wheel Heno truc'~~, li~c er~s e plate No K.K. 14942,
driven alone by Mr Pho~ Duangsiri, age 27, who lives at
[House] 66, viilage 8, Nabua commune, Surin district, Surin
Province.
This took piace because the high~ray patroi had learned that
on that day a load of marihuana valued at millionsof ~'~ht
wouid be transported from the forest area in Suwannakh~ha
district, Udorn Thani Province, a piace wher e large quantities
of marihuana are grown s ecretely. This is an area that
is controlled largely by terrarists and officials do n~~t aare
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enter this area to make arrests .~~Investors~~ who live in this
province therefore pay the villagers to gruw much marihuana.
Even when the authorities go in to suppress this, they canno~
suppress it entirely.
After following anc~ stopping the truck mentioned above, a
la..ge amount of m~rihuana was found packed in tin cans
concealed underneath bags of cassavas. The authorities took
the truck to the highway patrol station to search it
carefully. It turned out that there were 221 cans of
marihuana bound tightiy with strips of piastic and six bags
filleu with marihuana. ~e total amount weighed 4,117
kilograms with a present market value of approximately
5 million baht and a value of approximately 50 million
baht abroad.
From the interrogation of suspect Phot Duangsiri it was
learned that the concealed marihuana mentioned above came
from Suwannakhuha district, Udorn Thani Province. An
investor whose name is not known contacted the Yongchai
Company, LTD. in Loei Province, the owner of the truck that
was to be used by Mr phot~to transport this marihuana to the
airfield in Namphong district, Khon Kaen Province. On the way
from the piek-up point they pas~ed through Udorn Thani
Province. The investor followed in a gray Lancer, license
n~~' unknown. When the truck was stopped, the investor
_ fled quickiy. The police gave chase but were una~ile to
catch him.
Police Lieutenant Colonel Panya Sathanaphanit guarded
the suspect, the marihuana and the truck and th ~ turned
- them over to Lieutenant Wichan Sirikaeo, the officer on duty
- at the Udorn Thani district office, Udorn Thani Province, for
further handling of the case.
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HUNGARY
BRIEFS
EGYPTIAN HEROIN SMUGGL~R APPREHENDED--A well-dressed man boarded the
international express train about to depart for Vienna on 15 November
1979 in Budapest. After examining his hand luggage, a customs off icer
noticed that he was wearing--quite out of character with his stylish
clothes--cumbersome laced boots. A search revealed narcotics containing .
285 grams of 45-percent heroin in the soles of the boots. During his
interrogation, (Gabbros Mansy), a 34-year-old driver and resident of
Cairo, said that he arrived by plane at Ferihegy airport on 13 November
and intended to deliver the narcotics found on him to another Egyptian .i ~
whom he "does not know" in Vienna. The central district court has sen-
tenced (Gabbros M~nsy) to 18 months in prison, after which he will be
deported. [Budapest NEPSZAVA in Hungarian 1 Mar 80 p 12 AU]
CSO: 5300
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BOLIVIA
BRIEFS
COCAINE FACTORIES--Sucre, 20 Mar--Tt,ro cocaine factories have been discovered
in Totacoa and Moso~lla~ta, Chuquisaca Department, and peas.ants Adolfo
_ Palagueras, Seratin Vargas and Donasio Vargas have been arrested. The
cocaine was being sold in Santa Cruz, and the peasants accused Walter Vargas
and Alejandro Calderon of beinb responsible for the cocaine production.
[PX261944 La Paz PRESENCIA. in Spanish 21 Mar 80 p 2 PY]
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COI.OMB.~A
INSPECTORS CL,AIM INN~JCENCE IN COCAINE TH~FT
_ Bogota EL ESPECT~DOR in Spanish 4 Feb 80 p 10-A
[Article by Jairo Ortiz C.]
~ [Text] Cali, 2 Feb--"We are innocent of everything we are accused of and we
believe that this slander stems from personal interests and resentments on
the part of persons who worked with us as inspectors in the Office ef the
Attorney General," the lawyers Luis Roman Ardila Medina and Ramiro Perez Pena
said here today.
On a visit to the editorial office of EL ESPEGTADOR in this capital, two of
the four officials accused of substituting banana flour for a shipment of
cocaine, were emphatic in declaring that in their opinion what is happening
is an attempt to damage their character, since a~ no time did they have
~ anything to do with this "scandal."
They Are Not Fleeing
Saying that they are ready to appear before the authorities and submit to
interrogation, and that at no time did they flee from justice once their
employment was declared terminated by the Office of the Attorney General of
the Nation, the now~ former inspectors of the Office of Narcotics Control
stated that up to now they have received no official communication in which
~ they ar~ accused of disappearing with cocaine or taking part in irregularities.
The Present Documents
Ardila Medina as well as Perez Pena presented our correspondent a copy of
decrees 0007 and 0009, signed by the attorney general of the Nation,
Guillermo Gonzalez Charry, the secretary general, Jose Roberto Herrera
Vergara, in which it was proven--say the lawyers--"that at no time were we
dismissed for irregularities such as replacing cocaine with banana flour."
"Precisely," said Perez Pena and Ardila Medina, "the decrees are dated 16
January, the day on which the case containing the narcotics was discovered,
so this proves that the allegation is completely false."
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Here are the paragraphs from the decrees: "Article 1. Declares as no longer
in force~ with financial consequences, ae of 19 January of the current year,
the appointment of Dr Luis Roman Ardila Medina, as visiting lawyer grade 17
of the Attorney General's Office, delegated to ti~e Criminal Police, with
headquarters in the Sectional Unit of Cali. Article 2. Appoint as visiting
lawyer grade 17 of the Attorney General's Office, delegated to the Criminal
Police, with headquarters in the Sectional Unit of Cali, Alberto Martinez
Pelaez, coordinating lawyer of the Criminal Police grade 17 of the Regional
Office of the Attorney General of said city, replacing Dr Luis Roman
Ardila Medina. Article 3. Appoint Mr Jose Ortiz Melgare~o, as special agent
of the Criminal Police grade 11 of the Attorney General's Office delegated
to the Criminal Police, with headquarters in the Sectional Unit of Cali, with
uanthly salary of $13,500, replacing Mr Hector Ramiro Perez Pena, whose
appointment is declared no longer in force, witr. financial consequences
from the 18th of the current month.
They Recount
In a dialog with EL ESPECTADOR and exposing their points of view concerning
the aecusations made against them, the lawyers stated: "On 16 January of the
current year there was found in~ide a suitcase which was unclaimed at the
international airport of Palmaseca, a substance which had a gross weight
of approximately 10 kg. Upon sub~ecting this substance to the field test
for narcotics, positive results indicating cocaine were discovered. For
this reason, we (Hector ~tamiro Perez and Luis Roman Ardila) transferred
this substance to the office of the Criminal Unit of the Attorney General's
office, delivering it to the chief of the unit, German Zapata Cortes.
Moreover, we specify that no disciplinary investigation was initiated which
might have led to our dismissal. They merely declared the termination of
the appointment, based on the provision for automatic appointment and
dismissal of civil servants which the Attorney General of the Nation has.
So, what was told to the various news media about our having been dismissed
after it was proved that we had substituted the drugs, is untrue. Nor are
we fugitives, since on the same 16 January we cantinued working from 1400
until the notice of termination was communicated to us and we are here in
Cali, as you can see."
They noted furtherm~re that "learning tha.t Court No 23 of Criminal Investiga-
tion had been designated to investigate certain acts which are attributed
to us, we present ourselves today, Saturday, to the aforesaid office, not
having met the judge, since, as we were informed, he is working elsewhere.
8956
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COLOMBTA
MARIHUANA, WEAPONS SEIZED IN SANTA MARTA
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 30 Jan 80 p 7-A
[Article by Gustavo Vasquez]
[Text] Barranquilla--In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta,
units of the Second Brigade arrested 28 common criminals and they seized
35,000 packages of marihuana in an operation carried out between Friday and
Sunday, said Gen Carloa G. Narvaez Casallas.
The official also announced the aeizure of a great quantity of arms and
vehicles.
General Narvaez Casallas said that with the capture of almost all of the
gang, which was led by Arturo Mendoza in the area of Caracoli in La Gua~ira, ~
they were able to break up the gang.
Seven Airplanes
Narvaez Casallas also reported that during the registration and control of
the illegal traffic of arms and narcotics, they seized, in the departments
of Magdalena, Cesar, La Gua~ira and E1 Atlantico, 7 airplanes, 20 vehicles
and 24 tons of marihuana and they arrested 19 persons who participated in
the criminal acts.
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Barranquilla--A veritable arsenal was captured by the commandos of the
Second Brigade in the village of Caracoli; in the foothills of the
_ Sierra Nevada. Fifteen revolvers of different calibers, 9 M-1 rifles,
19 other rifles, 23 M-1 clips, 7 pistols and approximately 3,000
cartridges and 28 men wer~ captured in the raid.
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COLOMBIA
BRIEFS
MARIHUANA PLANTATION FOUND--A gigantic crop of marihuana, covering 50 hectares,
with a total of 31~2,323 plants, which are said to be worth 1 billion pesos,
was diseovered by the authorities of Antioquia in the area of the Ba~o Cauca
, and four persons were arrested. In the same raid were discovered 20,000 bags
of marihuana seeds ready to be planted, 1 kg of dry seed and 9 arrobas of
the grass. The site was found between "E1 Cerro" and "Barro Blanco," in
the canyons of La Dorada and Nechi, in the town of Caucasia, Bajo. During
_ the raid, Dario Betancur, Hernando Canas, Gabriel Arboleda and Honorio
- Restrepo were arrested. [Text] [Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanislz 2 Feb 80 p 9-C]
8956
HALLUCINOGENIC PILLS SEIZED--Santa Marta--The police captured a launch sailing
in the Magdalena River, off E1 Banco, with a shipment of 725,000 hallucino-
genic pills and four persons were arrested during the operation. [Text]
[Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 2 Feb 80 p 9-C] 8956
- COCAINE SEIZED NEAR BARRANCABERMEJA--A shipment of cocaine, which was trans-
po rted to Barranquilla by four persons and which was valued at 60 million
pesos, was seized by the National Navy on the Magdalena River during the last
few hours. The shipment was loaded in a boat by the traffickers from the
"Cienaga de Zapatoza" area and it came from one of the laboratories hidden
on the river bank, ready for shi~ment. The boat was intercepted by a patrol -
of "Jungle Commandos," who were on patrol in the area of the "E1 Sudan" ranch,
some 180 km north of Barrancaberme~a and south of Bolivar. ~The four traffick--
ers were brought to the "Puerto Galan" base. They were identified as Hector
Campuzano Cardenas, 43; Jose Florez Rocha, 45; Jesualdo Torres Carrillo, 35
and Ramon Rocha Caro, 21. The boat, "Powerful Hand Number 3," was recently
acquired. The shipment was made up af 29 boxes, which contained about 6
million pills, which weigh some 600 kg approximately. [Text] [Bogota EL
TIEMPO in Spanish 28 Jan 80 p 14-A[ 8956
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ECUADOR
INTERPOL ARRESTS INTERNATIONAL TRAFFICKING GANG
Quito EL TIEMPO in Spanish 20 Jan 80 p 24
[Text] INTERPOL agents are carrying out intense and constant operations
in the various provinces of the country so as to counteract crime and the
smuggling of drugs, which lately have taken alarming proport3ons in this
country.
Drug Trafficking Gang
INTERPOL agents in E1 Oro Province, after intense investigations, managed
to capture a gang of drug traffickers, which included Colombians and
Ecuadorians operating in the country.
- The illegal deals were made with Dulo Estevan Moreno Sanchez, an inmate
of the prison in the city of Machala, who is in prison for a murder he
committed some time ago.
In the cell of the afore-mentioned criminal, Colombians Jaime Patino Santa
and Ismael Aullon Rodriguez, in the company of Ecuadorian citizens Gabriel
Sanchez, Carmelino Coronel and Juana Bravo, the wife of Dulo Moreno San-
chez, planned their drug trafficking.
Systems
On several occasions, to throw off the track the agents of INTERPOL,
Carmelino Coronel delivered the drugs to the Colombians in Lago Agrio.
On other occasions, Patino and Aullon delivered the merchandise to dif-
ferent places in E1 Oro Province.
The Arrests
Colombians Jaime Patino and Ismael Aullon Rodriguez in the company of the
Ecuadorian Carmelio Coronel, were captured in the place called~Saracay in
E1 Oro Province. On the basis af the interrogations of the criminals, the
police subsequently succeeded in arresting Juan Gabriel Sanchez and Juana
Amada Bravo Encarnacion.
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The Evidence
_ Evidence taken in the arrest of the members of this dangerous gang of drug
traffickers includes 218,425 sucres and 13,595 Colombian pesos, in addition
to a sky blue Fuji brand preciaion scale.
The five drug traffickers were placed in the custody of the respective
authorities of E1 Oro Province.
Still Sought
Finally, it was revealed that for the same crime the police are looking
for Colombians Jaime Perez and Tulio Rodriguez. They have asked for the
help of agents of INTERPOL of Colombia in locating the two.
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ECUADOR
TRAFFICKING GANG ARRESTED IN GUAYAQUIL
Guayaquil EL UNIVERSO in Spanish 22 Jan 80 p 10
[Text] The head of INTERPOL handed over to the tenth judge of the court
all the drugs and implements which were confiscated from the international
gang of drug traffickers which was captured in this city after an "offi-
cial operation" arranged by Government Minister Roberto Dunn Barreiro.
According to the reports which were handed over to the ~udge, those impli-
cated in this "deal" are the following: Manuel Eduardo Pombar Santana,
Jose Melquiades Cedillo Gonzale~, known as Patucho, Juan Maximiliano
Escalante Rodriguez, Ruth Tapia Guerrero de Pombar, Ana Noboa Wong, Gladys
Santana, among others.
The lawyer Manuel Uriguen ordered the implementation of a series of steps
to make sure that the testimony of all those under investigation who are
being held in the Penitentiary of the Coast is heard.
In the report, it is stated.that the principal suspect is Manuel Pombar
Santana, a person who was connected with capitalist drug traffickers liv-
ing in Miami and the Bahamas.
It was further revealed that: "Pombar entered the drug traffic when he
made friends with Juan Valdivieso, a fugitive, who invited him to the
United States; in that country, he met Jose Blanco or Curtis MacMillan,
with whom he made an agreement on the 'deal' upon returning to Ecuador,
getting into contact with Otto Lucas Rivera, who was in the Penitentiary
of the Coast and wh~ took charge of obtaining the drugs, which were sent
from this city to various countries by `couriers."'
Also in the INTERPOL report, they accuse Jacinto Lopez, known as Chingolo,
the person who was in charge of obtaining the drugs, of being paid 5,000
suc:res per kilogram for the purchase of cocaine. The profits were shared
with Jose Melquiades Cedillo Gonzalez, known as Patucho.
8956
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MEXICO
BRIEFS
COCAINE SMUGGLER CAUGHT--Mexico City, 22 February--This morning, the Co1om-
bian woman Margarita Prada Moquillaza who, when she fainted at the Interna-
tional Airport, revealed her extraordinary girth, caused by cocaine, appear-
ed in the federal court. In fact, upon leaving an Argentine Airlines p~ane,
she began walking very rapidly, possib ly because her undergarments had torn.
She then lost ~onsciousness, and a federal agent was summ4ned to come to her
assistance. He rubbed her shoulders and hips, and gave her aromatic salts
to inhale. The i:~vestigator discovered that the southern woman's obesity was
not natural. Under an elastic belt she had con~ealed several packages of
cocaine, estimated by the Federal Judicial Police forcea ae having a black
market value of 10 million pesos. When questioned about this, Margarita
Prada Moquillaza said that she was enroute to Miami, where ahe was being
awaited by members of a large international drug trafficlcing ring. She
added that, last week, other members of the ring had been arrested here in
Mexico. They were attempting to reach Nassau with 50 million pesos worth
of cocaine. [Text] [Ciudad Juarez EL FRONTERIZO in Spanish 23 Feb 80 Sec E
p 3 ] 2909
TRAFFICKERS IN PLANE CRASH--The two Americans who were killed last Monday
when the small plane in which they were traveling crashed to the ground were
engaged in drug trafficking. This was established in the investigation con- ,
ducted by federal agents detailed to the port of Tampico, Tampaulipas, who
were ~old, when they arrived at the scene of the accident, that National
_ Army forces had seized 180 kilograms of marihuana which was being carried
in the aircraf t. As we reported yesterday, last Monday on a site near Alta-
mira, Tamaulipas, a Le Baron 655 Bell Craft light plane crashed, and its
two occupants were killed. The two drug traffickers of American descent were
idenCified as Robert Williams Babcock and D~;~d Theodore Breve. [Text] [Nuevo
Laredo EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 28 Feb 80 Sec D p 4] 2909
CSO: 5330
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VENEZUELA
, COCAINE, GUNS CONFISCATED, TWO p.RRESTED
Caracas ULTIMAS NOTICIAS in Spaniah 23 Jan 80 p 27
[Article by Francisco Gomez]
[Text] Various firearms and a large quantity of cocaine were confiscated
qesterday from a Syrian citizen and from a Lebaneae during a raid carried
out by the PM [M~tropolitan Police] in a house in Loa Chaguaramos. Those
arrested, according to information provided by the PM office oi public
relations, were Boutro Haddad Chsd, 25, a native of Lebanon, and Yourki
Chaud Muaoud, 39, a Syrian. The police spokesman revealed that during
Monday night, toward morning, a raid wae made under a court order at the
Ines villa on Codazzi Ave in Los Chaguaramos.
Inaide the reaidence, they found the two men, several containera of cocaine,
envelopes of other types of druge, a large nuanber of piatol cartridges~ a
Remington .45-caliber pistol from the U.S. Navy and a special type revolver.
The two who were arrested were placed in the custodq of a criminal caurt. '
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Boutro Haddad , y,x~~W~a [se publiehed]
Chad, 25, ~ F" Yourki Chaud
Lebanese, ar- 1` , Y` Muaoud was also
rested for f arreated by the
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MAI3DRA.Y PILLS SEIZED, TWO COLOMBIANS ARRESTED
Caracas ULTIMAS NOTICI~4S in Spanish 20 Jan 80 p 11
[TF:~t] nao brothers of Colomb ian nationality were arrested in the ear1;T -
mor~~.ng, yesterday, by a squad of officers assigned to the Division of
Intelligence and Vice of the Metropolitan Police [PM], when.they raided
an apartment building located in the Montanita district of the Jose Feliz~
Ribas suburb of Petare, where they seized 3,942 Mandrax tablets, a revolver,
cartridgea and money from drug sales.
From the information supplied through the PM press and public relations
office, we lezrned that through an oxder for the raid issued by a court,
once th~ investigations become more definite about the two alleged drug '
traffickers who had their distribution area in the eastern zone of the
city, they proceeded to carry out a search in the house where they had al-
ready determined the place where the druge were hidden, and were able to
confiscate 3,942 Mandrax tablets, as well as a.38-caliber revolver and
money which was presumably ohtained through the sale of drugs.
They immediately arrested the two brothers of Colombian nationali~y, whom
they 'jentified as Freddy and Alberto Rami~ez de Avila, 21 and 29 reapec-
~ tively, who were transferred to the central headquarters in Cotiza, where
they were infermed of the charges which were to be forwarded shortly to
the courts.
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MANDRAX TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED--Barinas, 21 Jan--Two men who were carryiag !
more than 4,000 Mandrax tablets were arrested after an exchange of shots
with officers of the DISIP [Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention
Services] in which one of them was wounded. It was reported that a squad ~
of the DISIP arrived at an elegant establishment in this city, a bar and
disco, and there they arrested on suspicion Reuben Villanueva and Orlando
Vasquez Rosset. When they were told they were under arrest, they responded
with shots and then the members of the squad took action, which resulted
in the wounding of Villanueva. They added that, be~ides drugs, they con-
fiscated three revolvers, one of which presumably had been etolen from the
Technical Judicial Police in Merida. The police are inveatigating the
possibility that the two men had participated in a robbery in Merida in
which an officer of the PTJ [Judicial Technical Police] was wounded.
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BELGIUM
BRIEFS
ZATRIAN ARRESTED ON DRUGS CHARGE--The attache to the Zairian Embassy in
Brussels was arrested at the airport yesterday as he was taking posses-
sion of 3 suitcases containing 95 kilos of marihuana. The attache enjoys
diplomatic i~mnunity which could therefore only be lifted by the Zairian
ambassador and in that case the diplomat would be tried in Belgium for
drug trafficking. [Text] [LD271143 Paris Domestic Service in French
1000 GMT 27 Feb 80 LD]
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FRANCE
ENFORCEI~NT OFFICIALS, RESEARCHERS DISCUSS S0~'T-DRUG USE
Paris L'EXPRESS in French 2-8 Feb 80 pp 95-98
[Article by Jean-Francis Held and Andre Bercoff: "Where do Drugs Begin?";
_ investigation by Annie Kouchner and Provincial Correspondents -
Jacqueline de Grandmaison, Dominique Jung, Maurice Huleu, Jean-Claude Louart
and Herve Marchal]
[Excerpts] Against hard drugs there is unanimity. But,
about the so-called soft drugs, should wie believe the poli-
ticians or the doctors who ar~ working in the field?
Without a doubt, in France and elsewhere, scientist�s maintain that drugs are
drugs and that suppression, like prevention, need look no farther than that.
For example, Professor Gabriel Nahas, researc:h director at the Paris INSERM
[National Institute of Health and Medical Research] and a teacher at Columbia
University in New York, has for ten years been tirelessly denouncing the dam-
aging effects of cannabis. He notes harmful effects on the brain, the white
corpuscles, sperm cells, etc. In the United States as in France many sci-
entists disagree with the results of his work, but no one seriously maintains
that hashish is harmless, any more than are alcohol, tobacco or even coffee in-
gested in critical quantities. The controversy that continues tQ erupt goes
even farther, is even more confused, and concerns the practical attitudes that
should be adopted, case by case, to keep matters from becoming worse.
As for the government, which may be concerned with not losing ground in the
_ strata of the heavy opposition, and which sees the devil where it is not neces-
sarily deeply involved, it is showing itself to be very energetic. Marchais
should be gratified!
A preliminary legal i~nvestigation has been started against the instigators of
the Val-de-Marne teachers' pamphlet. Jacques Barrot, the Health Minister, en-
visages sanctions. Christian Beullac, the minister of Education, speaks of in-
citement to drugs, and exclaims, "We already have the plague and cholera, let's
not add smallpox." No doubt. But what if smallpox were already there, terrify-
ing or relatively benign, depending on opinion?
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However, if we can believe Monique Pelletier, ministerial delegate for the
Feminine Condition and since February 1978 in charge of coordinating govern-
mental drug prevention action, the situation is not completely catastrophic:
prevention, information, training, suppression, improvement in care are now
better provided; "health clubs," where young people find valid representatives,
are developing in various university settings. Drugs are no longer taboo;
they may be talked about. Monique Pelletier tells L'EXPRESS, "If I have not
taken a position since the recent events, it is because it is my impression
that the current drug controversy is chiefly political. Well, hashish or her-
oin are not leftist or rightist; they just are."
We recall the facts that led to the Val-de-Marne battle and then to the nation- '
al controversy. Last October, in the little city of Liverdun (Meurthe-et-
Moselle~ a dozen high-school students were surprised in the act of smoking
"grass" after a pop concert. The educators warn parents and police, 17 kilos
of hemp weed are discovered growing in a field; there is panic. A certain kind ~
of press, greedy for the sensational, is set off.
Liverdun becomes Katmandu, rumor swells, high-school girls would hecome pros-
titutes to obtain drugs. A village in the hashish age: Liverdun is practical-
ly quarantined. "The way the media have treated this affair is a real scandal,"
says Commissioner Francois le Mouel, the head of the Central Office for the
Suppression of Illicit Narcotics Traffic. The drug problem will not be solved
by maintaining a state of panic." ~
Liverdun was merely a harbinger. In December a Communist Youth pamphlet was -
circulated at the door of the Darius Milhaud High School in Villej~}if, in Val- -
de-Maxne. ~ntitled "Struggle! Not Drugs!", it violently attacks those who
are in favor of liberalizing hashish, "those who exalt 'smashing' in the
name of bourgeois society" and denounce "the dubious soft drug-hard drug de-
bate that may be of interest to doctors, but is a booby-trap for the society."
Several days later, teachers belonging to the SGEN [General National Education
Union]-CFDT [French Democratic Confederation of Labor], the SNES [National High-
er Education Association], the 5NETP [National Technical and Professional Teach-
ers' Union]-CGT [General Confederation of Labor], respond with a pamphlet en-
titled "Struggle! not Moral Standards!" which they, too, distribute in front
of the doors of Darius Milhaud High School.
_ Responding point by point--sometimes clumsily--to the Young Communists' tract,
the militants ask the question that will set fire to the powder keg: "Would
not the free sale of soft drugs and strict medical control be the only way to
demythify the problem and avoid the classic escalation that drives youths from
discontent to revolt, from revolt to soft cirugs, and sometimes from there to
hard drugs? In any case, we must fight for real information on the different
drugs and their respective dangers, without minimizing them (heroin, LSD, al-
cohol), but also without dramatizing them (H, kef, marihuana)."
*Marihuana.
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According to a Montpellier magistrate who, in the current climate, is not
anxious to have his name published, hashish is almost commonplace in certain
milieus, and adult smokers feel less and less ttiat they are illegally defying
the society they live in.
In Lille, where young aficionados get their supply from the dealers in General-
de-Gaulle Square, Doctors Jean-Michel Picquet and Daniel Taine, who take care
_ of drug addicts, are against depenalizing hashish. ~ut, firmly, they make a
distinction: "Though r~ot an innocuous product, hashish is not terribly harm-
ful."
Concerning suppression or leniency, serious policemen are circumspect. "There
is no doubt," says Francois le Mouel, the head of the antidrug fight in France,
the clandestineness of hashish poses problems. Dealers often sell 'grass'
and heroin indiscriminately. Whence comes the possibility of inciting and es-
calating. But although it is true that simple consumers don't have to be ~o-
secuted as far as the courts, I am convinced that cannabis use must continue .
to be an offense. If only to make it easier to hunt down the dealers. And
then," the commissioner continues, "if the use of 'grass' is completely depen-
alized, young people, because of a taste for transgression, will be in danger
- of moving en masse to hard drugs. All in all, it is better to transgress at
the "grass" level."
Many physicians, like Dr Francis Curtet, dispute this logic. Unstable young
people, learning that hashish is not the violent poison it is announced to be
by the censors, are in danger of believing they have been lied to about her-
oin. Basically, where do drugs begin? That is the whole question! ~
"Be that as it may," Commissioner Le Mouel continues, "it is certain that today
all social classes are affected, that drugs have left the urban centers to be
diluted throughout the territory, and that the phenomenon is an expanding one."
~ The doctors who are working in the field therefore reject the mixture. "No
one can claim to know exactly what the long-term effects of hashish are," says
Dr Claude Olievenstein, chief of staff of Marmottan Hospital. "It took 50
years to discover the consequences of tobacco absorption. From that viewpoint
Professor Nahas' conclusions, which lack consistency, should be accepted with
reservations."
And Professor Nahas, who is experimenting basically on animals, is not a"field
man." He lends his ardent cooperation to those who need it, includin g
Georges Marchais. To such an extent that many specialists have nicknamed their
eminent colleague "Dr Madly-in-Love-With-Cannabis."
Dr Olievenstein, whose experience no one could argue with, declares he is in
favor of depenalizing soft drugs, as is done in the United States: anyone in
possession of less than one ounce of grass (28 grams) may have it confiscated
and be hit with a$100 firfe (4Q0 francs), $200 for a second offense. No court
proceedings, no police record.
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For possession of more than one ounce one enters the dealers' category, and
will be prosecuted as such. "But if the witch-hunt continues r.ere,"
Dr Olievenstein continues, "if an hysterical campaign continues to throw fam-
ilies into a panic for purely political motives, then I will be led to demand
legalization, which I don't want."
Dr Francis Curtet, the founder of the Link Association in Boulogne-sur-Seine,
- states, for his part, "That hashish is not a harmless product is a known fact;
all the more reason when it is abused instead of used, in the hope of escaping
from difficult situations. That is why it is indispensable to protect minors
from it, for recourse to hashish would risk delaying or preventing solving the '
many problems they face in building an adult personality." But he adds, "By
abusively sticking the "drug addict" label on a youth who was merely experi-
menting, by making him a scapegoat and incarcerating him, one runs the grave
risk of reinforcing the adolescent's positions of withdrawal, even of revolt,
and inciting him to escalate, just when one would like to protect him."
In Italy, depenalization has become everyday practice. Every day, in Amster-
dam, one of the free radio stations gives a course on the diffE~ent qualities
of "grass" and warns against harmful arrivals. That is not ths way it is in
France: at the idea of seeing cigarettes made in Lebanon, Zaire or Morocco
controlled by the state and distributed legally by SEITA ~Commercial Tobacco
and Match Manufacturing Agency], Commissioner Francois le Mouel throws up his
hands: "That is sheer, pure lunacy! Just because alcohol and tobacco are per-
mitted drugs, we don't have to add a third! Having said that, I recognize that
if tobacco had been forbidden from the beginning, Gitanes and Gauloises would
now be controlled by the Mafia."
Who is Taking Them?
Of 9,620 persons questioned by police, the gendarmerie and customs in 1979
(against 8,000 in 1978) for infractions of the narcotics law, 55.53 percent
(against 60 percent in 1978) were questioned for consuming cannabis.
Percent
1979 1978
Higher executives 0.45 0.38
Middle executives 2.06 2.83
Professional people 1.17 1.90
Members of artistic professions 2.68 2.g7
Farmers.. 1.22 1.91
Clerical workers 20.62 18.45
Laborers 12.42 10.76
Military.. 4.52 3.81
College and�high-school�students 12.71 14.01
No definite occupat.ion 42.15 43.08
Note that the figures represent the tip of the iceberg, and~that it is easier
to question idle youths than higher executives.
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FRANCE
TWO VIEWPOINTS CONCERNING DRUG USE PRESENTED
Dangerous or Not
Paris LE MONDE in French 2 Feb 80 pp 1, 13
[TextJ The controversy about the safety or the dangers of so-called "soft"
drugs came back to life on Thursday, 31 January, with the guarded disclaimer
of the distribution of leaflets at the SGEN-CFDT~~n$tiona]...headquarters doora,
the very same day that members of this union weat on to a new distribution
at the Noisy-le-Sec school in Seine-Saint-Denis (our Final edf~tions). To
explain its decision, the labor union's national bureau mentioned the
"passionate climate" aurrounding this matter, a climate it considers
inappropriate to a calm debate.
Mr A~ndre Henry, FEN [National Education FederationJ secretary general, told
France-Inter on Thursday that he is "opposed to those who fight at achool
doors and do so clumsily." Mr Henry recalled that for 3 years his federation
has been asking the minister of education to devise appropriate "replica-
tions" to this danger.
This concern is seen in Mr Christian Beullac's decision to name one or two
"missi dominici" "very soon" to insure a permanent liaison between the
Ministry of Education and the "antidrugs gentlemen," mostly school phy-
- siciana, named to assist principals a year ago.
The debate continues on the political front. The RPR [Rally for the
Republic] states that "it will oppose any evolution tending to facilitate
or legalize drug abuse." Mrs Monique Pelletier, representative of the
women's commission and author of the 1978 report on drugs, emphasized on
Thursday to Antenne 2 that a"panic" must not be created, and estimated -
that the media had created a"climate" from a"local political debate."
Hashish Hazards Seen Exaggerated
Paris LE MONDE in French 2 Feb 80 pp 1, 13
[Article by Claude Olievenstein, head physician at the Marmottan Medical
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[Text] Hashish presents three types of problems: clinical, scientific
and social. Since I am not a laboratory man, my experience rests
essentially on the clinical and on sociology, but I must say that since
the hashish problem comes up before one who is responaible for the struggle
against drug abuae, I have gone through many scientific articles on this
matter. The least that can be said is that the opiniona put forth by
profeasor Nahas are not held by the ma~ority of clinicians working in the
field or by a large part of the scientific community.
To take an example, professor Salomon Snyders, the highest international
authority on drug matters, holde a poeition contrary to Mr Nahas's. It
is thus appropriate to define the problem:
~ From the Clinical Point of View
Four arguments are advanced or understood from Mr Nahas's statements.
The escalation would be automatic. Now, taking only the example of the
United States, for 20 years there have been down there 40 million smokers;
there are only 700,000 to 800,000 h~roin addicts. Thus we are talking of
5 percent, a figure which we have always given, and not of an automatic
escalation.
No serious statistics in countries of high medical development has
aucceeded in tying "the decrease in fecundity" to the usage of marihuana.
On the contrary, the most prolific peoples of the world, such ae the
inhabitants of India or the Moroccane, have smoked for generations.
Concerning the decrease of the body's defense mechanisms, no official
antidruga organizations or WHO statistics show any reports indicating an
increase in serious illnesses in hashish smokers. On the contrary, it
suffices to watch the United States to realize that people who smoke do
not have more or less malformations or cancers than the population's
average.
As t~~ psychic troubles, it is undeniable that regular consumption of
marihuana derivatives entails memory and mental synthesis troubles. Or.
the other hand, scientific.research of the so-called cannabic paychosea
shows that the great ma~ority of cases involve fragile personalities
having preliminary problems in this field.
Nevertheless, the problem of psychic decompreasion rieks cannot be aet
aside undiscussed.
From the Scientific Point of View
For many years Mr Nahas has acted in a curious way. He cites a danger and
when this danger is disaproved, he discovers some others. Let us be
serious: we have first of all talked about dependence. In fact, the
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ma~or problem with drugs ~thi�h f.all into the WIiO definition is a
dependence and an increase in tolerance.
Now, in any caae, no one has been able to demonatrate dependence on THC.
Authora opposed to the use of cannabis such as Iabell and Jasinaki have
shown this in experiments on man. We have already talked about the
problems of psqchoses, which is often put forth. Previously, the Laguardia
repoXt warned against any undue correlations. Objectively, a scientific
experiment on 72 prisoners voluntarily subjected to a month-long intoxi-
cation at the Welfare Island Hospital showed only six "bad trips," an
epilepsy attack in an epileptic subject, one residual depression lasting
several days and only one progressive schizophrenia, which seemed
individually connected to the product. That is the scientific truth.
Mr Nahas dwells on the dangers of automobile driving aad perception troubles.
This information is nevertheless weakened by the very serious works of
many authors, especially Clark and Nakashima, published in the American
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, and Weil, published in the New England JOURNAL OF
MEDICINE, all on automobile driving; the same goes for Crancer's work.
In addition, a researcher, Reese Jones, replacing cannabis by a placebo,
notes the same percentage of errors in both cases.
Concerning animal experimente, we are not, let us repeat, laboratory men,
but others are. And Snyders, who is, clearly says: "The validity of
explaining human behavior from the effects of drugs on mice and rats is
not particularly clarifying."
Until otherurise proved, clinical experience prevails. And we have already
demonstrated before that nothing justifies Mr Nahas's misleading slip
relying, in addition, on the most unacknowledged ghosts of the population,
such as shrinking of the testicles or sterility.
b`rom the Social Point of View
Despite the publicstion of many reports such as the Schaffer commiasion's ~
in the United States or Ledain's in Canada, everything keeps going on as
if society needed a scapegoat to ward off its fears. In the present French
context, using parents' legitimate fears about drugs serves to turn people
away from real problems such as the lack of a policy for the young, the
deficiencies of the school system, the economic problems, scandals, etc...
On these grounds, 5,000 serious addicts ar~ not enough to create coll.ective
fear. In return, hashish can mobilize hundreds of thousands of people,
anxious about their children's �uture.
The result is that, in 1979, 10,000 youths were questioned by the police
at the risk of being included in a medical-police file which could often
definitively demage their futures. Other tens of thousand feel threatened
and in solidarity with the former.
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FYom a political point of vies, it is a grave error; from the human point
of view, it is a cataetrophe; from a druga point of view, it is a
monstrosiCy: already youth alcoholism is taking a huge leap forward,
perfectly legal producCs, euch as atain removere and glu~s, are used with
infinitely graver riaka. When will thie madness stop?
Or should we think then that hashish is only a pretext to let fascisa? take
another step in our country.
Inaction cn Drugs Condemned
Paris LE MONDE in French 2 Feb 80 pp 1, 13
[Article by Pierre Zarka, MJCF secretary general, deputy (PC) of the
Seine-Saint-Denis: "I Persist and Subscribe"]
[Text] The least that can be said is that the MJCF [Communist Youth
Movement of France] position calling youth to reject and fight drugs is
cauaing an uproar. And this is good. It would have been a pity, even
serious, had such an important struggle escaped notice.
I will not re-examine here the medical aspects of the destructions entailed
by drugs. That is clear to everybody. Only some who have decided to see
nothing and hear nothing try ro oppose the Coue method to scientific
demonatrations or historical experience.
I would like to make several statements: ~
1) We have been witnessing for some time a new popularization campaign
relying on the trickiest of quibbles. For example this wounding comparison
with alcohol. Besides trying to give us a very bad report, it is dishonest
to campare alcohol and drugs.
It is the abuse of alcohol which hurts and the "minimum consumption" of
drugs which damages. To drink a glass is not to flee, a"~oint" is and
is done for that very reason. Finally, we are reacting to a campaign in
fauor of drugs. Were anyone to call youth to use drunkenness as a means
of evasion, we would react in the same way;
2) Who profits by such a c;ampaign? Not those who die or who wear them-
selves out. Maybe, on the contrary, those who, because they exploit
others, prefer to see people flee into the {magination rather than compete ~
with them in the real world. Yes, drugs are a means of oppression for
big capital. I will remind you that our reason for being, us coa~unists,
is precisely to struggle until extinction of in~uaticea. And one must be
blind not to see how the power of the press, who have done everything
against the gaspi on the sub~ect of petroleum and the Arab countries, for
safety belts and the need to have road rules...are so discrete on the
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_ consequences of drug consumption. The arguers are not always able to
explain the weakness through which the avante-gardists, as likable as
Nixon and his followers, authorize drug conaumption...Could it be a aolution
to the explosions of anger in Harlem?
3) Whoever felt a*_tacked has put himself in his place. There is nothing
I can do about it. But I must say that a good many youths, workers,
teachers are scandalized by this blackmail: "If you, communists, say that
you are against drugs, why then do yau attack one or another socio-
professional group?" It is right to ask why. Thus we should take refuge
in a coward and accomplice silence and let youth suffer the attack of
drugs, their traffic, their popularization. They do not know us well.
There is in these furious cries following my article in L'HUMANITE, some-
thing resembling a pitiable political maneuver. My article appeared in
L'HUMANITE on 25 October. November and December went by without anybody
budging. And then, all of a sudden, in January, some start saying:
"Zarka threatens us." I am hanpy that this is not the speed with which
hand laborers and intellectuals defend their liberties;
4) Finally, I have found cut that since my comrades and I have made of
druge something that can be ~ought instead of a calami.ty which one watches,
powerleas, youths, parenCs, teachera, and physiciana have decided to fight
against this poison.
Certainly it is this process that is driving shy ministers by turns to
stop being silent. Yes, we are very determined to struggle for life.
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DRUG EDUCATION TRACTS CITED, EFFECTS DISCUS~ED
Paris LE MONDE in French 24 Jan 80 p 14
_ [Passages enclosed in slantlines printed in italics]
[TextJ The General Union for National Education (SGFN-CFDT
[French Democratic Confederation of Labor)) of tae Creteil
Academy released a communique "urging union sections in the
lycees to distribute extensively the pamphlet [on drugsJ
that had been circulated at the Darius Milhaud Lycee, about
which everyone is talking and which no one has read." This
_ action follows an aflministrative investigation requested by
the Creteil Rectorate ensuing the distribution by some 10
teachers of the Kremlin Bicetre Lycee of a pamphlet enti-
tled "Str.uggle Not Moralizing." This document which we are
publishing today aroused many reactions among the Villejuif
(Val de Marne) communist organizations relayed by a few news-
papers, L'HUMANITE among them.
This "affair" led to four teachers from the Darius Milhaud
Lycee being summoned by the police. The case was referred
to Jacques Barr~t, minister of health and social security.
"They continue to make the public believe that the incrim-
inated teachers are vindicating drugs," a fact which,
according to SGEN, is aimed, beyond the slanderous press
campai~n, at allowing "professional prohibitions."
ide publish below the texts of:
y 1) The pamphlet of Pierre Zarka, secretary general of the Communist Youth
Movement of France (MJCF), entitled "Struggle N~t Drugs: To Fight For Life,"
and circulated in late November 1979;
2) The answer to that pamphlet, circulated by SGEN-CFDT, SNES (National Union -
of Secondary School Teachers) and SNETP-CGT (technical education) militants
and entitled "Struggle: Not Moralizing:"
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~ "Struggle, Not Drugs"
"It i.s high time communists stated very loudly the e~tent of their opposition
to drugs. The rPspect and love of life and mankind is at the root of our
struggle and entire policy: we fight anything that could destroy it.
Drug use has dreadful ~ffects: some af the organism's cells are attacked,
behavior changes, personality becomes the prey of deep neuropsychological
unbalances, memory is disturbed, visual sharpness weakened and reproductive
ability uncertain. It imposes an endless ascalation which destroys free-
dom. It undermines the possibility to act, persevere, want and be. Death is
someti.mes at the end of the trip.
Young people spring forth into the world and they only encounter crises. For
some, drugs will be the desperate answer to this terrible confrontation~ they -
believe the struggle against a monstruous society is lost before it has even _
begun and their lives doomed to defeat. But this cry of revolt is also a
destructive gesture: it cannot leave us indifferent, all the less as it is
becoming a real social phenomenon.
Drugs are not synonymous with happiness, but with unhappiness; not with love
or Urotherhood, but with solitude; and not with revolution, but with resigna-
tion.
They lead to having contzmpt for one's own life and its value; how then can a
perscin d.emand that society respect the individual when that person does not
respect his own self? How can a person fail to see that drugs deeply affect
the determination and tenacity essential to the struggle? As a rule, parti-
sans of the liberalization of drugs have abandoned the idea of changing ~
reality and participating in the liberating struggle; they no longer hope and
they dismiss equally exploiters and exploited, oppressors and oppressed. -
Lying in wait for any opportunity, great bourgeoisie made no mistake about it.
It understood that an increase in drug use meant passivity, acceptance, assent
to its directives, which it is seeking so tenaciously under the word "consen-
, sus." Not only are the big trafficking bosses never caught, but, through, its
press, the bourgeoisie is orchestrating a regular campaign of vulgarization
which gives drug use the appearance of irreversibility by magnifying the phe-
nomenon. tiere, it is the newspaper LIBERATION which glorifies ~~gettirg high"
in the name of loathingfor the bot~rgeois society. There, it is the question-
able debate on soft and hard drugs which may be of interest to the physician ~
but ensnares society. Elsewhere, a regular intellectual terrorism engulfs
minds, leads them in measured steps toward drug taking to "emulate the others"
(according to numerous studies, the main reason among young people), stan-
dardizes the conformism of despair and reduce: to silence all but a few
courageous ones.
Drugs, this terrible entrapment for each of their victims, also change into a
9 formidable social weapon to obtain this famous ~onsensus of young people
through indifference: the result could be far deeper and lasting than any
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political maneuver: Moreover, the method is not new: let us recall rhe
Indians' tragedy whose will to resist floundered; in the 19th century, the
weakening of sectione~ nf the Chinese people sodden with opium; colonial
decrees organizing the "product's" distribution; and the GIs' madness, high
on "grass" between two massacres. The United StAtes which produced Al1 the -
obsc.urantisms--the KKK, McCarthyam, racism, political assassinations and mad
killers--now forms 42 million drug addicts.
The cult of negativism, nothaigness for lack of essentials and abnegation of
self and others, is at the heart of the great bourgeoisie's ideological
arsenal: the crowning manipulation is that its very victims adhere to this
life-style and defend it: -
Resolutely and without complacency, we must convince the young peoplE to fight
, against drugs. To be sure, each person is free to lead his life as he sees fit.
" Or rather, should be. As for the freedom to be unhappy, big capitalism takes
care of that very efficiently. On the other hand, the right to be happy is
another, more difficult matter: it is an unrelenting struggle. After all, it
is the reason one becomes a communist. To participate or not is a responsi-
bility nor.e can escape and for which each person must preserve the best he has
-~b to offer. We all need it.
Through the centuries, mankind has owed its progress to this struggle for hap-
piness. It will not stop. In order to continue, contempt for life must not
triumph."
"Struggle! Not Moralizing!"
"In an article signed by P Zarka and entitled "Struggle, Not Drugs," the JCs
[Communist youthsJ give the Val de Marne secondary school students a free
lecture in ethics. And what a lecture: It is childish, superficial, accom-
panied by hasty, unanswerable and very unpractical judgments. Let us forget
the comic situation in which Zarka places himself by proposing, as a type of
struggle, membership in the JC"s, these same JCs having gained notoriety
during the strike for the readmission of Rodriguez (a school attendant working
at the Darius Milhaud Lycee in Kremlin Bicetre (Val de Marne), fired at the
beginning of the last term , later reassigned to the Robespierre Municipal
Secondary School in Vitry), as it happened, a notoriety gained through inter-
- ventions against a committed struggle. Therefore, it is not surprising that,
deprived of real prospects of struggle, our cocky youths leave for Katmandu:
Let us, however, look closer at this edifying text. To prove his point, Zarka
needs to:
/Rewrite history:/
American Indians did not get crushed by European expansionism, followed by
nascent Eurapean imperialism, but by a lack of will due to a heavy use of
drugs. As we learned from our moralists, the Chinese sodden with opium never
succeeded in making the revolution. The massacres of Indochinese populations
were not due to the imperialist war but to a few soldiers (GIs) armed to the
teeth. It is so much more simple that way:
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/Reinvent ttie medicine oE fear:/
Drugs, without distinction, have dreadful effects (loss of sight, impotence,
madness). Moreover, this does not prevent Zarka from omitting other drugs,
particularly deadly in France, like alcohol. To be sure, when ads for Ricard
~ are piiblished throughout L'HUMANITE or a"Miss Humanisette" is being elected
with much pageantry, one is in a poor position to raise this problem.
/1'ractice mixing facts:/
Of course, LIBE and those who differentiate between soft and hard drugs are :
being manipulated by the big bourgeoisie and traffickers. It is thus implied
that they are their accomplices. Once this little simplifying clearing job
- accomplished, Zarka can take the liberty of playing with great philosophical
concepts like drugs, life and the triumphal march of mankind and acting as a
moralist by condemning "without demagogy" those who do not respect themselves.
Well, no comrades, it is not that simple: And we believe that youths cannot
- be satisfied with such a superficial vision of the situation.
Marx explains materialism as the analysis of concrete situations, which must
result in the death of philosophy,if it is well done. Let us then push on
with the analysis. /We are fighting for life,/ but not for just any life.
Not that of the Shah of Iran or, as the opponents of abortion explain it,
fetuses. Neither do we fight for the defense of this dog's life led by many
of today's people. Under these terms, we do not believe we have the right to
pass any moralizing judgment on those who cannot bear it (suicides or slow
- suicides through alcohol or hard drugs). We r_an only try to persuade them to
re~oin our struggle for collective emancipation.
"Dishones* Mixing of Facts"
Can we be satisfied with speaking about drugs in general terms?
It tak~s a good amount of dishonesty to mixed the effects of, for example,
marihuana and heroin:
The wholQ population of South Yemen uses a drug called "kat," a fact which did
not prevent it from chasing the English colonizer and setting up in his place
a socialist government which, furthermore, did not prohibit the use of that
drug. More recently, the masses of Nicaragua, great users of marihuana, did
not stand on ceremony to overthrow Samoza and make great strides toward
socialism. To be sure, in Europe, the use of soft drugs is not a natural
' social fact: people go much more easily for deadly drugs (alcohol, sleeping
pills, tobacco) which irreversibly destroy nervous cells for the one, alter
chromosomes for the other, etc. It is true, however, that those drugs are
profit-earning, especially for the state.
The ignorance and obscurantism favored by some, make it possible to regroup
anything that is consumed under the fearful name of drugs.
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~ All things considered, who pro~its ~rom the confusion thus maintained?
Obviously, the traffickers and those who cover them in the government. Those
are the responsible people whom Zarka challenges very little, prefering to
tackle the victims from his moralizing soapbox. _
In the face of these accusations would a more delicately shaded, enlightened
and responsible attitude be considered as a solution? An attitude which would
be based on, firstly, information to youths on all drugs, without exceptions
and mixed facts, and, secondly, on a liberalization of the sale of soft drugs.
Would not the free sale of soft drugs, "H," marihuana, ki~ and a strict medical
control be the only means of demystifying this problem and avoid the classic
escalation leading youths from discontent to revolt, revolt to soft drugs and,
sometimes, from the latter to hard drugs: either because they are lured
through the influence of a psychological manipulation (sustained mixing of
facts) by a certain press, thus valorizing their use; or because they are
being pushed by traffickers who, exploiting this confusion criminally, try to
get them to use hard drugs. We know those lycees in the vicinity of which,
without hiding from the police, traffickers sell small quantities of low-
priced heroin; then, they suddenly stop the supply to start selling again
afterwards at top price: .
In any case, we must fight for true information about the various drugs and
their respective danger without minimizing them (heroin, LSD, alcohol), but
also without dramatizing them ("H," kif, marihuana).
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Why should there not be a debate on the subject at the students' village?
In conclusion, it seems clear to us that the liberalization of soft drugs,
medical and not police control, as well as broad information would be the
current means of coping with control--and, therefore, power which the mob has
over the drug market in a capitalist society--and with police repression. They
would only be partial measures. �
The general solution to this problem can only be found within a socialist
society and collective emancipation making it then possible to study what
influences behavior (medicines, alcohol, tobacco and other drugs) so that
decisions concerning the measures to be taken will come from all the people
involved. ~
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FRANCE
BRIEFS
MORPHINE-BASE SEIZED--Ztao Danish citizens, Ivan Goranof, and his wife,
Mrs Petersen-Goranof, were questioned on Sunday 16 March at Orly air-
port as they were on their way from Istanbul to Copenhager. Z'hey had
with them a suitcase with a false bottom in which was found 3.7 kilo-
grams of narcotic thought to be morphine-base [for conversion into
heroinJ. ~'he central drug control office will handle the investigation.
[Text] [Paris LE MONDE in F`rench 19 Mar 80 p 15]
IRANIAN HEROIN INE'LUX--The French police are concerned by the influx, onto
the Paris drug market, of brown heroin originating in Irano [Text] [Paris ~
LE POINT in French 10 Mar 80 p 43]
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SWITZERLAND
SEIJTENCES OF HCROIRT SMUGGLERS UPFIEi,D ON APPEAL
Zurich NEI1E ZUERCf~R ZEITUI~G in German 29 Feb 80 pp 27-28
~~rticle by emr: ~~~ftermath of a Drug Tria7.~r
~ex~ We cax~ried a fh].1 report of the trial before the local court in Bua-
lach early last r~ovember. Two Italian national.s from Vex~ona, the 26 year-old
plumber I~tario Cassiolari and hi8 one-and-one-~~a1.f yeas older accomplice,
RafYaela Patania, were sentenced. to ten and to six years hard labor for
smuggling 11 kilograms of he~in. Dieantime, the agpeal px~ceedinga have run
their oouree. The most nr~table diffez~ence to the earlier trial was that the
principal defendant was absent this time. Caesiolari man,aged to escape from
the dietrict jail in Buelach on 1 Deaember 1979. The seoond criminal divi.eion
of the Zurich Court of Appeale made only alight rewisions; it added one year
to the woman'a sentence, increasing it to aeven yeare. One may aak whether
_ it makee eense to pass on the appeal of a criminal ~aho has flad from ~ue~tioe.
~ Paragraph 423 of the Code of Crimi.nal procedure etatea: "The appelant's nor~
attendance at the appeal proceedings xithout proper cause is conaidersd tant-
amount to yrithdra~?el of the appeal." The que8tion is whether flee3ng ~st3ce
is coneidered "pr~per cauae." AQxever that may be, the courts have adopted
this particular oourae, basing it on considerations which can be accepted.
Dru~s for American t~arket
There are some rather revealing additions to be made to our earlier report.
First, a brief summaz~r of the facts. The two smug~l.ers had arri.ved in Zurich
on a fli~t from Bang~COk on 11 June 197g, i.ntencli.ng to continue their trip to
Italy by 1and. I)uring the customs inspection at the airport ofPicials dieco-
vered at least 11 kilograms of hemin hidden i.n the falae bottoms of the
cougle's four suitcasea- the larg+es~~ quantity ever seized i.n Switzerland of
this drug which is oonsidered the mos~t dange2bus of a11. The "market value"
of the 11 kilo~rsms of He~roin is estimated at about 10 mil.lion Swiss francs.
Given such an amount of money, the expenaes involved are a minor ma,tter.The
_ ooet of the couple's trip came to araut 16,000 S~riss franca in a7.1 and they
would have received 10,000 Sr,risa france for their t2rouble, according to Cas-
siolari. On the wa;~ to Ban~cok, Cassiolari paid out almost 1000 S~?riss francs
for excess baggag+e and on the i?ay back, more than 5,400 S`Wiss france for the
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firet-class surchar~e, There was a reaaon for both expenditures. On the way
out, the suitcasee were stuffed f~a.ll of clothea so that the 11 kilo~~;rtams of
heiroin on the way bac~; would not ehow up ae exces~ weight and thue arouse
the suepicion of the customa inspectore; the e~:cees clothin~ vras left behind
in Bangi-ok. On the return flight there was no space available in touriat
class. The return flight, it appears, cou].d rwt be del~yed; at at~y rate, the
additional 5,400 S~aiss francs we~e no object.
It seems that the hesnin was intended to reach drug dealera in the United
States. DEA, the U.S. Dru~ Enforcement ~:dministration, had learned that as
mar~y as ten drug couriers Kere aent to Ban~ok around 25 ?~ta,7 lg7g with orciera
to s~uggle aome 80 kilograms of heroin into Ita1y for subeequent shipment to
the United Statee. .
' Girl Friend Feigna Innocence
After de~ying the charg~a for some time, Casaiolari made a partial confeesiott
_ of guilt. To do a friend a favor, he had agx~eed to smuggl,e some jexelry back
to ~urope; .but the friend had bmught him the drugs instead of the ~ew~elry.
Ca~siolari flxrther stated that he knew nothing of any of the details and that
he waa in no way involved with an international gang of drug dealers.
Fbr her part, Cassiolari's aompanion feigned complete in:wcence. She had
wanted to gn on vacation with him, but her husbgnd was a~ot to know. No~r, her
husband runs a plumbing business in Veroaa together with Cas$iolari. and there
ie reaeon to believe that the two are not meraly bueixiess partners. Raffaela
aleo said that ehe gave no thought to the question why their four old suit-.
cases were suddenly exchanged for new ones in Ban~ok. Hoxever i.mplaueibla
her story aounded, she never changed her tune.
ds for the fact that her circle of friends and acqua3ntances included a
number of fig~u~es of the drug acene well-known to the police, she claimed to
be hearing this for the first time in court. But the judges wou].d neither
believe that she was the ignorant paramour of an odc~job smuggler, nor that
she was his innocent compani.on taken along for camouflage purposes. The
judg~es were convinced that the accused was ~lly axare of the purpose, the
deatination and the logistice of the trip.
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Serious Case ~
There was no queetion; Raff~ela xas an accomplice and, there was a gang
aspect to the crime. The defendanta were th~ught to be at 1 east "medium-level" -
members of the gang. But in this regard the Zurich court differed with the
lower court, etating that gang activity is simiiarly defined by the crimina7.
oode nnd the narootics law, although the latter omits the word "contiiiuous."
Given the quantity of clruga involved �-11 kilo~rams of heroin- thi.s is 3.ndeed
a serious case.
'rTe mi~t mention in closing that the Appeals Court had precious few kind
words to say about Mrs Patania's defense counsel, who had also represented
Caeaiolari during the actusl iavestigation. Even before the ma.ddle of July
counsel had been given a~cess to the interrogation reoorde and to the defen-
dante themeelves. But couneel had brazenly denied this; in fact, he had tr3ed
deliberately to mislead the oour~t.
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HEROIN SEIZED--Gaziantep security forces seized 4 kg of pure heroin in a
, house on Cumhuriyet Street used as a workshop for the manufacture of heroin.
Five persons were detained in connection with the incident. An investigation
is in progress. (Ankara Domestic Service in Turkish 1400 GMT 6 Mar 80 TA]
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