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19 June 1980 -
WORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 26/80)
CONTENTS
ASIA
HONG KONG
Dutch Connection Arrested in Raid on Heroin Syndicate
_ (Tommy Lewis; SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 21 May 80)..... 1
Ambush Nets Year's Largest Heroin Seizure -
(Tommy Lewis; SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 22 May 80)..... 2
Hong Kong Tipoffs Aid Thai Antidrug Operations
(Tommy Lewis; SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 12 May 80),..., 3
Large Cannabis Find on Pakistani-Regi;;tered Ship
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 13 May 80) 5
Arrests Hit Syndicate Smuggling Heroin From Thailand
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 May 80).... 7
Large Drug Seizure
Women Couriers Held
Another Airport Arrest
Three Persons Charged
Earlier Airport Seizure
JAPAN
Briefs
Drug Sentence Upheld 10
MALAYSIA
Move To Change Legal Definition of Cannabis
(NEW STRAITS TIMES, 19 Mar 80) 11 �
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Plan To Expand Drug Treatment Centers
(NEW STRAITS TIMES, 16 Mar 80) 12
Methadone Not Used for Rehabilitation of Addicts
(NEW STRAITS TIMES, 14 Mar 80) 13
Narcotics Arrests, Trials, Sentences Reported
(Various sources, various dates) 14
Small Fine for Elderly Addict
No Leniency for 71-Year-Old
Sentenced in Singapore
Undercover Agent Testifies
Heroin Fossession
Life Sentence
Guilty of Possession
Briefs ~
ASEAN Meeting on Drugs l~ '
PHILIPPINES
- Briefs
U.S. Drug Case Request Vetoed 18
EAST EUROPE
YUGOSLAVIA
Briefs
Trial for Drug Pushing 19
LATIN AMERICA
BOLIVIA
GNSP Involvement in Arms, Drug Traffic Discussed
(PRESENCIA, 19 Apr 80) 20
Army Accusations
GNSP Rejects Accusations
Drug Enforcers Recognize Country as Ma~or Drug Center
(PRESENCIA, 22 Apr 80) 25
Cocaine Manufacturing Ring Exposed
(PRESENCIA, 27 Apr 80) 27
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GNSP Requests Investigation Into Disappearance of Cocaine
(PRESENCIA, 24 Apr 80) 29
COLOMBIA
Grim Story of an Ama.teur �Mule' Told
(Bernardo Navas Talero; EL ESPECTADOR, 14 May 80)...... 31
Cocaine Factory Raided at Mesitas
(EL TIII~PO, 10 May 80) 36
Aircraft, Traffickers Seized in Different Locations
(EL TIEMPO, 10 Ma.y 80) 38
Traffickers Crash, Killed at Sincelejo
(EL TIF~O, 10 May 80) 39
Briefs
Coca Plantation Discovered 40
Drug Smuggling Detected 40
ECUADOR
Interpol Arrests Ten Traffickers
(EL COMERCIO, 27 Mar 80) 41
Border City, Macara, Has Become Drug Transit Point
(EL COMERCIO, 17 Apr 80) 44
Drug Rehabilitation Centers To Be Created
(EL COMERCIO, 17 Apr 80) 45
Drug Traffickers in National Jail
(EL COMERCIO, 26 Apr 80) 46
Brief s
Cocaine Traffickers 47
JAMAICA
Briefs
Marihuana Hau1 48
MEXICO
Details on Police, Army Antidrug Drive in States
(EL FRONTERIZO, 7 Apr 80) 49
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Antidrug Campaign Results for March Reparted
(EL SOL DE SINALOA, 3 Apr 80) 50
Police, Army (:asualties in Dr~~g PlantaCion Searclie5
(EL M~'.NANA, 26 Apr 80; 51
State Police Implication in Trafficking Probed
(EL rIANANA, 29 Mar 80) 52
Sicilia Falcon Still Claiming `Innocence'
(Miguel Anguiano; EL SOL DE MEXICO, 4 Apr 80).......... 5:s
Sentence Passed on Four Cocaine Traffickers
(EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO, 3 Apr 80) 55
- Armed Convicted Traffickers Escape Nogales Jail
(EL SOL DE SINALOA, 9 Apr 80)....~ 56
Escaped Traffickers Recaptured in Monterrey
(EL MANANA, 9 Apr 80) 57
Large Heroin, Marihuana, Pill Trafficking Ring Disbanded
(EL MANANA, 28 Mar 80) 58
Poppy Plantations Found in Nuevo Leon, Traffickers Arrested
~Various sources, various dates) 61
Discovery in Linares
Further Arrests
Traffickers, Equipment, Weapons Seized
Plantations Found in Tamaulipas
Poppy Plants Destroyed in Nuevo Leon
(EL SOL DE MEXICO, 8 Apr 80) 64
Large-Scale Drug Seizures Reported in Several Locations
(EL B:tA90, 15 Apr 80) 65
Widespread Hunt for Morphine, Heroin Traff~c Ringleaders
- (EL BRpVO, 15 Apr 80) 67
Police Seize Marihuana, Seed, Cocaine
(EL SOL DE MF.XICO, 4 Apr 80) 69
Drugs, 136 Traffickers, Firearms Seized
_ (EL SOL DE MEXICO, 7 Apr 80) 70
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Briefs
Officer's Murder Prompts Roundup 71 _
_ Drug Czar Obtains Protection 71
Poppy,Marihuana Plantations Found 72
German Cocaine Trafficker Caught 72
Trafficking Secret Agent Convicted 72
Drug�-related Murder 73
Escaped Traffickers Sought 73
Cocaine Traffickers Sentenced 73
Pill Traffickers Arrested 74
Austrians Arrested With Peyote 74
Qualude Trafficker Sentenced 74
NICARAGUA
Carrion on Drug Traffickers' Arrest, Release
(ACAN, 14 May 80) 75 -
PANAMA
Briefs
Cocaine Trafficlter Arrested 76
Ztao Arrested for Trafficking 76
Cocaine Seized 76
PERU
Authorities Destroy Coca Plantations
_ (Jorge Torres Serna, Jimmy Torres Carrasco; GENTE,
11 Apr 80) 77
Brief s
Raid on Drug Traffickers 80 -
VENEZUELA
Briefs
Cocaine Traffickers 81
Drugs Canfiscated 81
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
IRAN
Bani-Sadr Calls for Psychological Change in Society
(TIMES, 12 Apr 80) 82 -
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Briefs
Kazerun Heroin Seizure 83
Shiraz Narcotics Seized 83
ISRAEL
Drug Smuggler Opts To Return to Canada
(JERUSALEM POST, 2'6 May 80) 84
Briefs
Heroin Trade 85
Heroin Seized 85 -
SUB-SAHAR.AN AFRICA
IVORY COAST
Briefs
Drug Operations Successes ~ 86
WEST EUROPE
DENMARK
Report Shows Average Age of Dri~g Addicts Has Gone Up
(BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 22 Apr 80) 87
?~edical Report Shows Rapid Rise in Babies Born Addicted
(Ruth Northen; AKTUELT, 6 May 80) 88
Medical Journal: Use of Seasick Pills as Narcotic Up
_ (BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 29 Apr 80) 90
Court Sentences Woman for Smuggling Morphine Chloride
(BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 19 Apr 80) 92 _
Convicted Burglar Confesses To Heroin Addiction
(BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 12 May 80) q3 .
Briefs
Warning on Drugs' Purity 94
FINLAND
Medical Authority Tightens PrEascription Rules Following Scandal
(HELSINGIN SANOMAT, 24 Apr 80) 95
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~ Three Charged in Amphetamine Factory Case
(HELSINGIN SANOMAT, 22 Apr 80) 97
Prosecutor Discusses Dolorex Prescription Case
(HELSINGIN SANOMAT, 8 May 80) 98
FRANCE
Von Opel, Karg Saint-Tropez Hashish Trafficking Case Appealed
(Pierre Bois; LE FIGARO, 28 Apr 80) 100
TURKEY
Briefs
Heroin Seized 103
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HONG K()NG
DUTCH CONNECTION ARRESTED IN RAID ON HEROIN SYNDICATE
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORDiING POST in English 21 May 80 p 1
/Report Uy Tommy Lewis/
~T~~Xt ~ Narcoti~:s Bureau dete~:tives arrested sia ln the ilat, detectives seized half a pound
men yesterduy and believe they have smashed of No 3 heroin, worth abaut S 100,000 on thc
a syndicate invulved in importi~g drugs into retail market.
Hongkong and cxporting heroin to Europe Police are not rulin out thc
from Ban kok. B possibility
B thaC tfie drugs could have becn smuggled in
One of the arrested men is believed tu be by the two couriers when thcy returned from
the mastermind of the syndicate. Bangkok. �
He is on the wanted list oF the Dutch When tho raiding officers bruke into the
~lice in connection with a shooting incident flat. the first detective who entered the prcm-
~n Holland carlier this year in which two ises was attacked by a Chinesc fighting dag.
people were seriously wounded. ,~'he officer was taken to Queen Elizabeth
The shooting occurred in February follow- Hosbital for treatment.
ing a dispute betwan the arrested man, SOme of the arrestod men wc~c discovered
= nicknamed "Cha Bo" (Tea Pot), and the W have substantial sums in their bank ac-
Dutchmen Qccr the transactiQn of 10 kilos of counts alld the money could have come from
heroin, it wa, reported. the sele of drugs to addicts in Hongkong and
"Cha,Su" is also known to detectivcs as a Europe.
notorious oi'ficial oi the Sun Yee On triad Informed sources said that travel docu-
society, which is active in Holland. ments belonging to some of the arrested men
Superintendent Mike Horner of the Nar- had shown they had been travelling extensive-
cotics Bureau is expected to contact the ly in Asia and Europe.
Dutch police today about the, wanted man's Supt Horner last night said 'nis dctcctives
~ arcest and to find out whether they wish to raided the flat after moro than five months'
cxtraditt him For trial in Holland. investigations.
Two other men arrested in the police "h is not a bi$ syndicate, but I would say
swoop are believed .to be couriers for the it has been establ~shed in both Hongkong and
syndicate who had returned from a Thailand Holland," 6e edded.
tnp,on Thursday. . 'Flie arrested, men,,aged between 25 anc~
Thn six men were arrested in a flat in 30, were'test night bein~ detained at Policc
Nathap Road, Yaumnti, fotlowing lengthy Headquarters and questioned by officers oF
inyestigaUons into the activities of syndicate the bureau.
members.
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HONG KONG ,
- r\p1BUSH ~iETS YF.AR'S LARGEST HEROIN SEIZURE
Hong K~ng SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in Englisl-i 22 May 80 p 1
/Report by Tommy Lewis/
~TexT./ Narcotics Bureau detec- any connection between the
tives yeaterday sinashed �goldandthedrugs.
another syndicate involved in The aperation started with
smuggling fieroin in From an ambush in Wai Yip Strect
Thailand. shortly before 10 am.
It is the secortd syndicate The 44-year-old man al-
to be neutralised by the bu- legedly found in possession of
reau in Icss than 24 hours. the heroin was arrested.
Three men, including a Deteotives then carried
seaman, werc arregted in yes- out a series of raids in Kow-
tcrday's crackdown. loon and the New Territories
Sixpounds of No 3 fieroin and arrested two men - one �~+.~r;� ~
worth S 1.2 million on the re- in Tsun Wan and the other in ~ r'
tail market wero seized from Shamshuipo.
a man ambushed in Wai Yip PolicE then raided the . ~
Strat, Kun Ton'g. " freighter, Bulsook, i
Funher investigatiuns, dCtJ A police officxr said detec- . I
police to a freigliter in' th4 tives are still looking fur -
harbour - from whieh 15d several other people, somc oF
taels of gold worth 5500,000~ them seamen or former sea-
were also s�iud. men.
The heroin seizure was tht Meanwhile, the six men
biggest made by' the bureau ' ar~ested in a drug raid. in a
thisyear. Yaumati. flat on Tuesday
Thefrcight~ron�whi�hthe evening were yesterday
gold was fuund arrived from ch,~rged with possessing dan- '
Bangkok scveral days egoc gerous drugs for unlawTul
The gold bars were not enter trafficking. ' -
ed on thc vessel's manifest. They ere expectcd to ap-
A Chinese seaman was ar- pear in court today. '
rested nnd was last night as- Ivarcotics Bureau detec-
sis(ing detectives wiih ~thei~ tives yes{erday contacted
~invcstigntions. ~ Dutch police infotming them
Detectives working under of the arre~st of a man wanted
~he directions uf Chief Super- for questioning in Holland in
intcndent John Thorpe and connection with a shooting in
Superintendent Mike Horner which two~ Dutchmen were
wcrc last night trying to wounded.
rstablish whether there was
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HONG KONG
IiONG kONG TIP(1FC'S A1ll TFiAI t~NTIDRUG OPERATIONS
Hoiig hong SOUTH CHINA MOR:VING POST in English 12 May 80 p 22 _
/Report compiled by Tommy Lewis in the column "Monday Focus": "Law and '
Orde r"/
/Text/ Thailand smashed an Sen Supt Prisk said infor-
underground factory for mation about suspected drug
drug smuggling devices re- couriers leaving Hongkong
cently - thanks to the would be passed to both the
Hongkong customs intelli- Thai police and cus~oms offi-
gence.
_ Through tip-offs by cus- He said that their counter-
toms officers of both o ra- Parts in Europe and the
~ United States are also given
tions and investigations, Thai similar tip-offs many of
police and customs officers which have resulted in arrests
recently neutralised an under- and seizure of drug hauls ovcr
g~ound factory for the manu- the past few years.
facture of false-bottamed Following the smashing of
suitcases. the suitcase factory in Thui-
Couriers used these for land, drug couriers had re-
smuggling drugs into Hong- cently adopted different tac-
kong, Europe and the United ~~a concealment -
StaThe intelligence reports Sen Supt Pr~sk said.
were given to the Thai au- He said that so far. this
- thorities following the arrest year, six people, including
of a number of drug couriers three women, had been ar-
who were caught trying to rested at the airport for at-
smuggle drugs into Hong- tempting to smuggle heroin
kong. base and heroin into Hong-
They were using false-bot- kong by concealing drugs in
tomed suitcases bought from thelr anuses and vaginas.
- underworld elements in Thai- This is not a new way of
land. smuggling.
. These drug couriers - "it was used in the old
local and Thai nationals - days when people smuggled
were arrested when customs gold bars into Hongkong
oEficcrs discovered their ruse When importation of thc
at Kai Tak airport.The couri- metal was illegal," Sen Supt
ers had come from Bangkok. Prisk said.
Senior Superintendent Jim Smuggling by body-con-
Prisk, who heads the customs ceaiment is also widely used
operations branch, said thut ~n Europe and the United
aparc from smashing the States.
underground factory, customs Me~hods of combatting
officcrs in Thailand last this method.were discussed by
month also seized 2.2 kilo- drug fighters at the sixth
grams of heroin which was annual conference of Hcads
believed to be bound for of National Narcotics Law
Hongkong. Enforcement Agencies, held
in Sydney in November.
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Hongkong's represcnta- "We are duing our utmost
tives at the conference were to make Hongkong free of
� Sen Supt Prisk and Chief ~ drugs;' he said.
Superintendent John Thorpe, "We seem to be, having a
who heads the iVercotics Bu- good year this year, as cus-
reau. toms officers have so far seiz-
Sen Supt Prisk said that it ed about 75 kilugrams~ of
was impossibie to carry out ~ drugs vulued at $17.6 miliion
body searches on all passe~- on the retail mar~et nnd have
gers arriving on international arrested 253 people including
flights.
"Most of the arriyals aro seven women in connect ~on
genuine traveUera excdpt for a With various drug offences.
Meanwhile, customs intel=
- Few involved in the smuggling ligence says that there scems
of drugs," he said. to be a fair amount oF drugs
Asked whether customs still being smuggled in as the
officers at Kai Tak could step current price of heroin has
up their body searches on . dropped. ~
arriving passengers, Sen Supt The price of s kilogram of
Prisk said: ' No 3 heroin, K�ith a purity of
'We will continue to do so 20 per cent, on the retail
' and not relax it. markct was ~5500,000 in
'My ofiicers havebeen in- March but the price had
structed to try not to delay dropped to 5450,000, and '
passengers on their arrival with a purity of 23 per cent,
here, but to prevent the flow since last month.
of drugs entering Hongkong. �,The drop in price and the
"We just can't body increased purity of heroin
search every arrival on.inter- indicate that inore drugs have
national flights as most of been making their way into
them are genuine. travellers Hongkong, the intelligence
- and have nothing to do with reports said.
drugs. Sen Supt Prisk said; "We
"My officers have to path- will continue to battle the ;
cr intelligence and to pin- situation to the best of our
point possible drug smi~gglers ability.
before they are body :,carch- "Thero will be no relaxa- ~
ed, he said. tion in our investigatibns of I
"1 am sorry iF genuine tra- syndicates, drug traffickers
, vellers have been stopped and and even pedlar~ on the
searched on their arrival but street."
the aim of my oFiicers is Yo ~ ~
prevent drugs From being ~
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HONG KONG
LARGE C~NNABIS CIiVD ON PAKISTAIVI-REGISTERED SHIP
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORIVING POST in English 13 May 80 p 9
~TeXt f Custums officers ester-
Y The seizure was made yes-
day seized 25 kilograms of terdey morning during a rou-
cannabis resin with a retail tine inspection of Lalaznr,
vnlue of about 52.5 million on . which arrived from Seoul on
board a Pakistani-registered Sunday and was berthed off
cargo ship. ' Tsin 1 '
It was the biggest seizure Customs officers boarded
of cannabis res~n in recent the 9,000-ton cargo ship and
years, according to Senior In, discovered the cannabis resin
- spector Chan Chun-biu of the - I 1 packets under the deck
Customs and ExciscServia. of the engine room and 17
It was believed that the 28 packets concealed inside a
packets of cannabis resin pile of plastic and paper
came from Karachi and were' sheets on the oil tank.
_ intended for Japan, Mr Cha'n The vessel was not carry
said. ing any goods and was sched-
There is little demand for uled to leave Hongkong after
this kind of drug here, Mr loading goods here.
Chan said. Mr Chan said no drugs
Sources said it wes highly had previously been seized
probable that the drug was to from the vessel which is here
be exported to the US after it on its third visit.
arrived in Japan. No arrests has been made,
It is not known w6y the said Mr Chan.
drug was brought into Hong- The 57 crew members of
konA, sonrces said. the vessel are assisting cus-
toms officers in their inquiry.
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HONG KONG
ARRESTS HIT SYNDICATE SMUGGLI NG HEROIN FROM THAILAND
Large Drug Seizure
Hong I~ong SOIJTH CHINA MORDTING POST in English 8 May 80 pp 1, 9
/Text / Customs officers believe cers knew of the syndicate's
they have broken the back of operations about six months -
a Chiu Chow syndicate which ago but had only now obtain-
recruits wuriers to smuggle ed sufficient evidencc to
heroin to Hongkong. make arrests.
The breakthrough came lt surfaced on Saturday
yesterday afternoon w~en when a woman courier, al-
of~ars arrested three men legedly recruited by the
and seized heroin worth more syndicate, was arrested at Kai -
_ than 5750,000. Tak after a trip to Thailand.
The heroin is thou$ht to She had concealed half a
have been smuggled m re- pou~d of heroin base in her
cently by couriers from Bang- vagina and anus.
kok. ' It was alleged the woman
Customs mon bel~eve the had been recruited by the
men are organisois; of the syndicate for a fee of 55,000
syndicate lvhich ha's been plus sir fares and hotel ex-
operating For about a year. penses,
They also think they have It was also found she was
been sup~lying heroin to ad- one oF six couriers sent to
dicts in East Kowloon and the Bangkok by the syndicate to
NewTenitories. smuggle heroin base into
Yesterde.y'ss ~zt re is tho Hongkong by internai cun-
biggest made by c.~�toms oP~- cealment methods.
cers on �the street so far this Five of the couriers es-
_ year. ' caped detection but the -
_ "We are stiU. trying to get woman was arrested and
- the real boosea~of the syndi- taken to hospital where the
cate and we ho~e to make drugs were discovered.
' further srrests m the very Following her arrest, offi-
near future," Superintendent cers stepQed up their investi-
K. L. Mak of the Customs gations mto the syndicate
Investigations Bureau said. which led to the arrest of the
Apart from hunting the three men.
"masterminds," his officers Two were arrested by a
are also trying to ~nd the team of officers, led by In-
syndicate's drug factory spector K. Y. Kam, who had
which makes No 3 heroin ahadowed their taxi from Kun
from smuggled base products. Tong to Kowloon 'City. The
Supt Mak said his officers third was arrested later near
knew of several peoplc con- Kun Tong.
nected with the syndicate. Three men were last night
He disclosed that his offi- being questioned at Customs
Headquansrs in Rumsey
Street.
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Women Couriers Held
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORIVING POST in English 11 May 80 p 1
/Text / Two packeb ot heroin I beliered to be among tbe
base weighi ~bout 1.S kilo- courien of a syndicate t6at
gnms were~iued oae tkd smuggkd druQa into Hong-
to tbe abdomeo ot a baUi- ko~ fMm B~ngkok.
_ cisn ud one to t~e t6i~h of a . The p~ir, *bo were late
d~nce bostess - at ltai T~k Wt d~6t rtiil beio~ 6eld, tkw
~irport Y~~y ~~~r~ to Mseila from &m~kok on
'1'be a~s ~t co:rerna ro FSrta.~ y. ~
~ No 3 IKroin, wouli ~sre a ~�fhe weat via Manila to ,
retdl rapro of 51.6 milUon. ~roW f~ug ~r suspicioo,"
I The seisure 'folbwe~ ~ the sources spid. �
four-moath imati~atloa'by a They had left Hongkong
jdat ~ieit co~aprWt~ C1~tlwns for Bno~kok 12 days a~o, the
Ofiicm aad oflG:ers'froii 16e sourea added.
PoUce Narcotla 9yrear. T6e two wlll be clwrQed
T6e uait is be~;ied by Seo- wit6: ad ~t!~![~
ior [espectw ot tbe Cistoeos f~ i tbt.,, ot
~ 9 : Y~ - P~P,.~
And Excbe Senice Da~id ~lairti~ tqdie~g and w;ll
T~ ~ �appeii~ ~t� Saq Po Koo~ Court
Sonrcee s~W fbe two ~rere toeior~ow. ,
Another Airport Arrest
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORIVING POST in English 12 May 80 p 1
/Text/ A 47-year-old electronics
techpici~q _was last night ar-
resteii'et Kai Tak.aitport for
alle~ ty ~.poa~~ing'; a~bvyt ,
twa7tilograma of 6ero~n basc. ;
The drugs. if copvened to
No 3 haroin, would be worth
about S 2~ 7 million, polia
- sourcea estimated.
The man had arrived from
Manila. i
Cuatoms officers found
the: narcotica as thoy exem-
ineil a briefease he was carry-
ing. . . . � : , i
7~~ roan' `wi~{