JPRS ID: 10215 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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24 December 1981
Worldwide Report
NARCOTICS AND DANGERnUS DRUGS
. (FOUO 59/81)
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24 December 1981
WORLDWIDE REPORT
, NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 59/8Z)
CONTENTS
ASIA
~ AUSTRAZIA
Queensland Site of Drug Activity; Stiffer Laws Sought
(Peter Morley; THE COURIER-MAIL, 8 Oct 81) 1
Police in SA Investigated for Involvement With Ilrugs
I (THE AGE, 9 Oct 81) 2
Briefs
Cleri-cal Disguise 3
BURMA
Brief s 4
Maymyo OpiLm Seizure ~
Morphine Block Seized ~
Heroin Seized in Zashio 5
Loilem Opium Seizure
- HONG KONG
- Police Smash Heroin Importation Syndicate, Arrest 10
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 14 Nov 81) 6
. . Addicts To Try Out Fxperimental IJrug Suprenorphine
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 18 Nov 81) 7
BriPrs
F`i.ve Kilos Heroin Seized
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!�Y1it Ut'FII'iAl. tISN.' ONt.t
' INDIA
Forty Percent of Opium Production Smuggled Out of Colmtry
- (THE WORKING PEOPLEIS DAIZY, 24 Nov 81) 9
NEW ZEALAND
Record 17-Year Sentence Imposed for Drug Trafficking
(THE EVENING POST, 13 Nov 81) 10
PAKISTAN
'Nefarious Business ot Narcotics' Discussed
(JANG, 9 Nov 81) 11
Cultivation, Trafi'icking, Abuse of Ilrugs in Pakistaxl
_ (VIEWPOINT, 15, 22 Oct 81) 12
Brief s 19
� Contraband Drug Seized 19
Aid To End Poppy Cultivation 19
Heroin Seizure
I,ATIN AMERICA
MEXICO
Corrunutation of Trafficker's Sentence Criticized
(EL DIARIO DE NUEVO I,I.RFDO, 5 Nov 81) 20
Briefs 21
poppy Destruction Activity 21
_ Heroin Laboratory Destroyed 22
_ Pil]., InY~al.ant Danger Cited 22
Pills From C}iihuahua, Aguascalientes 22
Nogales Drug Problem Described 23
Sonora Antidrug Drive Results
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
EGYPT
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Narcutics Worth $50 Million Seized
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SUB-SAHAR.AN AFRICA
KENYA
Briefs
Nigerian Convicted
i
DENMARK
WEST EUROPE
25
Two Indicted foz� Smuggling Qne One-Half Tons of Hashish
(Bent Bak Andersen; BERLIrIGSKE TIDENDE, 20 Nov 81) 26
NETEIF;RLAN DS
Briefs
Heroin Se:izure
S4JE DEN
27
Justict Minister Approves Dogs in Prisons To Stop Drugs
(Willy Silberstein; SVEN5KA DAGBLADET, 23 Sep 81) 28
Reporter Describes Police Action Against Hashish
(Willy Silberstein; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 1 Nov 81) 30
Police Expect 'Price War' in Heroin as Supply Inereases
(Willy Silberstein; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 2 Nov 81) 34
Police Act To Stop Smuggling of Amphetamines From Netherlands
(Leif' Dahlin; DAGENS NYHETER, 6 Nov 81) 39
Committee UrE7P.f,, tlidden Microphones, TV in Drugs Fight
- (Wil"i,y Si_lberstnin; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 12 Nov 81) 42
'PURKEY
Armenian H,eroin Smupglers Said To Finance Terrorism
(Ftasan Ti.mur; IiURRIYET, 30 Oct 81) 44
Police Claim Success in Controlling Narcotics Traffic
(Emin Ozgonul; HURRIYET, 2 Nov 81) 47
Joirit Operation Uncovers Narcotics Smuggling Ring
(Ufuk Guldemir; CUMHURIYET, 2 Nov 81) 48
l1NT`('1?U KINGTOM
Cann?bis Gang Santenced to Jail Terms
(12p }{nnry; 7'HF DATT,Y TFLEGRAPH, 27 Nov 81) 50
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AUSTRALIA
QUEENSLAND SITE OF DRUG ACTIVITY; STIFFER LAWS SOUGHT
Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English 8 Oct 81 p 3
(Article by Peter Morley]
[Text) The State Government w
ill consider a move to jail
first offence drug growers and
peddlers for at l.east five
- years.
The harsher penelty was SugBested
tnight pa tions with a atreet a ua
yesterday bq Mr M. Tenni (NP, Bsr-
aaid that north
h
n near Cape Tribulation �
lto
m11
51
.9
o
o
- ron River) w
queensland police had found ~&s
or~rth 551,9 million 1n the last 2 wedks�
~
~
aV
~
and
to 4m high,
~me oi the plants, up
i
His remarka, at a government joint
needed two police to pull them out and
; parttes meeting. led to an instruction
Qbviously had been producin6 for.
that Cabinec immedtatdy make mor2
years,
- money available for drug surveWance
gelicopters were Mtally needed far
work.
Laat nlght the Premier, Mr BJe1ke-
lnvestlgative work snd police should be
able tfl camp out to overcome sltu-
~ petersen. said Cabtnet would have to
.
~one llke an Snciden. during the
aome up with the eztra money because
t drug detection work had "Just
- i
~~kend when part of a plantation
t
ncen
acratched the surtace."
to Mr Tennl, the gddition-
din
' I A
.
heul We~ los
,Th~ p~ants had been removed and
-
h
g
ccor
al ilnance fs needed to better equip po-
ey re
s~~~ bq police. But when t
turned on 8undap the marlhuans w~
Itce, s12ow Lhem to charter helfcopters
d traln dogs to acilff aut druBs tn the
~~g�
ure
t
an
~ nocthcrrt terraln�
1oint parttea meeting
ld th
t
~
p
~ Quanitp oi 83 percen
beroin ready to be cut to 12 percent for
e
o
He
; Lhat becauae of the dangerous elements
5~~ ~dicated ethat1sasV well as a
~ aa~ociated wfth the druB businesa, po-
llce ahould catrY aucanatlc shotguns
.~g ~ntre, the north was u9ed es
wi
~
for itnported bard
~
or Armalite ritles.
M-is carbine anm'unitlon had been
leating house
druBs�
Mr Tenni said becsuae of the ruBBed
dincovered, makinB 1t lmPerative that
noUoe be lssued artth mon than the
the
~obvioul5 �
n
standqrd .38 calibre revolver.
marihuana.
w
used to b;ing ln fGrtilLser and irriga-
In a detalled submission, he pro-

posed that ffrst otienders should be
Lion equipment.
.
Jailed for five to 10 years, although the
Judiciary Fould be abk to impose less"-
be ded sh u d lose hta ttcence for Ufe.
Mr Bjelke-Petersen said that while
er pen'lties tn aome cases�
. H1s suggcstlon led to s lengthy dts-
l
north Queenaland was obviously a
Bi'0R1riB gnd lmyort area, the druBs
t'
cvmton in which magistrate+ perP ar
fclaed tor SmposlnR lenlent fines and
wore going to schools and younB peoP1e
jg(I aentences foe drug otfences.
sald
througbout the statc^.
Thls wes the roaaon the jotnt Darttes
Howver, Mt BJelke-Peterse:i
last ni8ht the matter ot penalt:es had
had unanlmously agreed that as a first '
-
been left in abeyance at this sta8e.
-
f
step police should be givetn more mon
to flght the dNB traffic�
or
Mr TenN said during the Iast
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AUSTRALI.A
POLICE IN SA INVESTIGATED FOR INVOLVEMENT WITH DRUGS
_ Melbourne THE AGE in English 9 Oct 81 p 3
[ Text ] South Australian police and.t#e"
Crown Law Dp,{ctment are in- -
vestigattng allegations ot police
involvemen: in the dru8
rackets.
The South Austrdian Attorney
General, Mr Griflin, ordered tha
investigatian two montha ago
atter he wes given information by
rrporters on the Adelaide 'Advu�,
Wer'.
Mr Grift said he tmmedLtely
ordered the "top-line tnqufry" bt.
cause the dlegations quescloned
the integrity ot thepoItce. He said
were ra
and to the tinvestl8atons
checking the uformation.
Mr Griffin said the laqulrY pas
makinQ considerable progras and
he expe.:ted the report ot the
three-man team to be camPleted
by the end ot '.:.`te month.
"I believe police should be be-
yond reproach." he said. '7f vw
have bad eggs we waat to Md
them:' The informatioe idectiSed
Individuals.
�Adverttser' reporters David
Engtish and Rabert Bc11 have
alleged that
� PaUce and lawYen are lnvotved
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in rackets in which dniB dealers
can have charges droPPed ur
reduced by cashpa yauents;
� Police have resold conflscated
drugs;
o Drugs havs disappeared from
police custody before peoPa
come to trial.
� Polica have tabricsted evidence
to convict dru6 dealers;
� Police have been pald to
leak Federal polics iniorm4tioa
on drug intelligence;
� Bnbes ot $500,600 have been
paid in the ]ast tive years to a
small nuinber ot police for pro-
tection.
.Mr Engltsh said the informa-
tion given to M~t~ G~ Federal
trom lawyers, Po
poltce, criminsv and State police.
The SA DePutY Commissioner
o[ Police, Mr J. B. Giles, Assis-
tant Commissiartur (services), Mr
D. A. Hunc, aad a Crown Law
Department offlcials have
worked under cover ~ice depa g,
scenR and in the po
ment since the allegations wera ,
made. �
It is believed they have ques-
tioned
minaLs and erhave ~u1~~n Aoli e
files.
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AUSTRA1IA
BRIEFS
CLERiCAL DISGUISL--A man who disguised himself as a Raman Catholic priest to txy
to smuggle 19 kg of cannabis resin through Cust,-.ns in April, 1980, was sentenced
to six years jail in the District Criminal Court yesterday. Leon John Greentree,
33 fisiimonger, of. Gazelle SCreet, Glenfield, had pleaded guilty to importing and
possessing cannahis resi.n at Sydney in April, 1980, and false pretences in July,
1980, .ludge Coran sai.d !.t may iiave been his ill-fortune, that his luggage was
carried on to Melbourne in a flight, and when recovered it had already been in-
spected by Customs officers. The drugs were found and the officers "were waiting
- for you." Greentree had ttien carried out an "elaUorate" false pretence to obtain
$2,000 from a motor vehicie dealer to pay his legal expenses, the Judge saj.d. He
was sentenced to five years on the drug charge and an extra 12 months for false
pretences with a non-parole per~.:a of two years. Judge Goran said but for Green-
tree's severe handicap following some "sr:ocking injuries" the sentence would have
been much harsher. Greentree had goneto New Delhi, India, taking with him the
garb of a Catholic priest, and then bnught the cannabis resin kilogram by kilogram
from a taxi driver, the Judge said. [Text] [Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in
- English 8 Oct 81 p 101

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BURMA
' BRIEFS
A
MAYMYO OPIUM SEIZURE--At 1800 on 30 October, Inspector U Tin Maung Yi of an
intelligence unit of the Maymyo people's police force, together with a police
squad and ward people's council members, raided the residence of Daw U at
No 102 on Cherry Street. A search in the compound of the house uncovered 10
balls of raw opium weighing about 10 viss [36 pounds] hidde?i:Cn a clump of
- bamboo trees. llaw U, 60; '.`'Ia Nan Htan, 28; Ma Kauk, 34; and Maung Maung Aye,
alias Ye Chan, alias Gyan, 36; all of whom were involved in the case were
charged under sections 63, 7.B and 103 of the narcotic drugs law by the
_ Maymyo police station. [BK040640 Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 14 Nov 81 p 41
MOP.PHINE BLOCK SEIZED--At 1430 on 14 November, police station nfficer U Aye and
a police squad searched the fourth floor of building No 96 on. Latha 5treet,
Rangoon's Latha township, and found a morphine block weighing 2 viss [7.2 pounds;
and worth about 30,000 lcyat neatly wrapped in paper and inside a leather brief-
case helonging co Daw Yu Yin, 43, and Daw Aye Sein, 30, of Hko-man village,
Shan State's Kyaukme township. The houseowner U Main Kaung, 62, and the two
women were charged under sections 63, 103 and 11/14.D of the narcotic drugs
law. [BK040640 Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 16 Nov 81 p 7]
HF.ROIN SEIZED IN LASHIO--Under the orders of the National Intelligence Bureau,
the No 9 intelligence unit of the Criminal Investigation Department, in coopera-
tion wiCh Lashio township people's council, seized 56 kg of brown heroin worth
420,000 kyat from the residence of (Ban Pawk Shone), alias (Lawk Shone), on
(Kokang Kyaung) Lane, Zone 6 of Ward No 12 in Lashio at 1930 on 19 November.
Arrested were the owner of the drugs, (Lawk Lu), alias (Li Tae Pu); his wife (Ah
' Meik), alias (Cho Cho Win); the wife of houseowner (Ban Pawk Shone), (Law Kyauk
Se); and (?her) sister (Ma Krin Aye). Upon receiving information that (Lawk Lu),
� alias (Li Tae Pu), was planning to sell 33 kg of brown heroin at a price o.f
7,500 kyat per kilogram, surveillance was placed on his house in Zone 6, We,rd
No 14. (Lawk Lu) took the prospective buyer to the house of (Ban PawlL Shona),
where he dug up 33 kg of brown heroin placed in a drum and buried behind the
iZOUSe. While the tieroin deal was being made, the arrest was made. A search was
conducted in the house and a further 23 kg of brown heroin and 5,900 kyat
obtained from drugs sales were also seized. The four arrested persons were
- charged under sections 63, 7.B and 10.B/11 of the narcotic drugs law by the
Lasliio police station No 2. (BK040640 Rangoon Domestic 5ervice in Burmese
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I,ctl I,EM 011111pt :111:1~ I11:1:---11~~ N Novemhrt�, rtulliur ll lc+ti i�oiireritaJ atOpyrd ttl1c1 detirchrd,
til thv western enLrauce to Loilem, abus--registration No KHA/988 and driven by
Shwe Nu--plying between Loilem and Taunggyi. Found hidden in a bag of coal on the
_ bus were 4.2 viss [about 15 pounds] of raw opium. The owners of the opium, driver
- Shwe Nu and Nyunt Maung, were arrested and charges were filed against them by the
Loilem police station under sections 6.b and 10.b of the Narcotic Drugs Law. [Text]
[BK111245 Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 2 Dec 81 p 4]
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HONG KONG
POLICE SMASH HEROIN IMPORTATIOIl SYNDICATE, ARREST 10
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in L�'nglish 14 Nov 81 p 1
[Text]
Narcotics Burenu ofrcers
ycsterday smashed a Kowloon
hcroin importation and distri-
bution syndicate nnd arrested
10 people.
About 60 detactivea -
about 30 per cent of the bu-
reau's strength - wcre in-
volved in four simutteneoue
raids in Kowloon after a
three-month invatioation.
Officera believe they heve
broken the beckbone of the
syndicate by arresting the
"maeterminds;' although one
or two gang members were
still ut large last night.
Drugs and a quantity of
parephernalia worth alwut
5150,000 were aeized.
The seizure incladed 800
A rams of suapected heroin
ve kilograme of caffeine end
aboat one or 1'fi lilres of
hydrochloric acid.
Sourcea said the eyndicate
hired wuriero to import drug9
from Thailand and distributc
them throughout Hongkona,
bua mosdy m Kowloon.
They believed some of the
arrested people xleo acted as
couriero.
In a raid on premieee at
132�134 Auetin Road, Tsim-
sh4tsui, four men were arrest-
ed dnd about 500 gramt oi
suepected No 3 heroin was
eeiud.
Another party of officen
arrwted e couple at 28
Cherry Street, Tai Kok Tsui.
The premises waa believed to
be s drug packaging centre.
About 300 gratns of sus-
pected No 3 6eroin, 8va kilo-
grame of caffeine, 1% litra of
hydrochioric acid and a quan-
tity of paraphernalia wen
eeized.
Sources said the coupte
were relativee of `eome of the
W eople arreated in� Austin
oad.
A raid in a San PQ Kong
ilat led to the arrest of anoth-
er man.
Three ot6er men were
apprehended in s pnmiea at
16 Choi Hung Road, WonQ-
taisin, where e rmall quantity
of suepected heroin wae aleo
aeized.
Nine ot the erreetedpco
ple, aged betwecn 18 and 65,
will appear at Kun Tong,
North Kowloon and South
Kowloon Courta thir morn-
ing.
CtiO:
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HONG KONG
ADDICTS TO TRY OUT EXPERIMENTAL DRUG SUPRENORPHINE
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST ir, English 18 Nov 81 p 14
~i
[Text] The Action Committee
Against Narcotics has ap-
proved the experimental
treatment of local addicts
with a new drug, the Com-
missioner Por Narcotics,
Mr Peter Lee, said yester-
day.
Clinical trials using bu-
prenorphine insteud of
methadone will bcgin early
next y~;ar, he said.
"We are writing the proto-
col now setting down the
rules and conditions of the
trials," Mr Lee said.
The trials will involve a
"double blind" situution to
e^aluate the etfects of the
drug, with some patients get-
ting buprenorphine and
others perhaps a placebo, he
said. -
The use of buprenerphine
was recently recommended
by a narcotics treatment and
rehabilitation consultant to
the Medical and Health De-
partment.
Dr Robert Newmnn said
earlier this month that bu-
prenorphine can be dlscontin-
ued abruptly with few, if any,
withdrawol puins whereas the
sudden stoppagc of mctha-
done treatment me;ans severe
discomfort.
He said buprenorphine has
been swdicd extentirvely in
the United States and Europe
for ebout two years. tt haB.
beln FAUnd to have no side
efFectR. lt is nlso widely nvail-
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able as an analgesic drug. ,
Yesterday, 22 doctors
from 12 ;ountries ended, their
three�week coursehero on the
treatmept and .reNqbnlitation
of addicts. '
The wurse wsa the third
of its kind organiled by the
'Goverdment in oonjwietion
with the World Neelth. Ur-
ganisation. Next year, it will
be held in Thailand.
"Today, in the closing dec-
ades of the 20th cent�}y, we
see that, worldwide, the rav-
agea of this insidious plague
(drug kddiction) have reach-
ed pandemic proortiona, sap-
ping the energies of young
people and putting at nsk the
social febric and security of.
nations. '
"We have seen thet no
man or woman is immune to
this dreadful scourgc given
the appropriate combinatitm
of tircumstance and oppor-
tunity," Mr Lee sa;d at the
closing ceremony.
There aro however "real
indicatione" of containment
of the problem in Hongkong,
he eaid.
Hon~kong hae an ageing
population of addicte, with 64
per cent uf the eatimated
40,000 IoceI addicu aged over
30 and only 4.6 per ant
young peoQle, he said.
',Chemicet abuse ie a
F roblem wlth iooial, cultural,
egel and politicnl implicn~
tions and, in any wciety. Iittle
7
progreas can be anticipated
unless t6ere is rnerall oo-
operation and co-ordination
between all t6ose ooncerned.
"There muet be more ex-
chenge of ;information, more
joint plammng of sttategy and
programmes. We cannot sue-
ceed by ourselves." Mr La
said. . , . . , .
Drug abuee ie a sym ptom
of an underlying oondition
which, he felt, is esaentially
wncerned with the relation�,
ship between an individua!`
and hie environment. i
Attention should be di-
rected to the root causes of
whic6 the common denomina-
wr ie stresa, Mr Lee said. '
Dr Musarraf Hwesin,
Mhb was appo~nta~ t~s.clasd
leaaer aa~(d~g tbe :oouree,
prui9~ Fta~koni -(dr`tteat '
ing drug adiction aa a medi�
cal and social' problem
wheren many countries, in-
cluding Pakistan, stiil loqk at
it ea e; paychistric ptoblem. .
The registrar of a neuro-
p~ychiatric unit in Karachi,
he estimal6d thet oight to 10
per cent. of peychietric pa-
tienu in'Pakistan.ttke druge.
Buk other coWMcs haw
found !t a terious problim in
the long run and Dr Hunaln
intende to recommsnd t6tt
his tiovernment ehould suatd
againet thls pouibility
'�i nwst uka my 6N dff tot
the I~ n~km~S �
for iu
the . prolem," he b~dcd meneea. fdement, of
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HONG KONG
BRIEFS
T'TVE KILOS HEROIN SEIZED--Police seized five kilos of heroin when they arrested a
couple on a motorcycle atter an accident in Shamshuipo yesterday. Emergency Unit
officers signalled a motorcl�cle to stop after the rider had disobeyed traf�ic signs
at Nam Cheong Street near Laic:hikok Rbad, Shamshuipo shortly before 8 am� The aY'
clist sped away and after a chase was involved in a collision with a taxi. The
cyclist, aged 30 and his woman pillion rider (18), were arrested after a bag con-
taining 13 packets of heroin was found in the girl's handbag. On the Island, three
men wanted in connection with blackmail and drug offences were arrested in an anti-
cra.me swoop in Wanchai yesterday morning. A suspected drug pedlar was also among
those arrested. They were among 863 people stopped and questioned by -"+anchai po-
lice in a major anti-crime operation. A total of 191 people were '.:aken to Wanchai
Police Station for questioning. Police said 28 were detained for further inquiries
while 38 others suspected of committing various offences were allowed bail. [Text]
[Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 20 Nov 81 p 251
CSO: 5320/9104
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INDIA
- FORTY PERCENT OF OPIUM PRODUCTION SMUGGLED OUT OF COUNTRY
Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 24 Nov 81 p 71
['1 ext ] NEW DELHI, Zz Nov -About qo per cent af
sll opium produced In
Iadia is smuggled out
"
r by ebout �o gnags
of the' country every yesi
engaged in the trafAc,
it wss reported hesa
aahu'daY�
A UNI news agency
in the country had reached
on a atudy
report, based
44 kilo rammee.
.
of opium production in
Des~te inteneive effcrts
Mandsaur District, in
the dovernment Narcotics
Madhya Pradesh State,
Department got only 6a
deacribad as Asia's largest
per ccnt of the production;
= opium-producing centre,
the rest being smuggled
satd oplum worth about
out, the agency added.'
Soo million rupeea (So
Smuggling is carried
million US dollars) was
out in three phasea-
being smuggled out to
opium is illegallypurehas-
Pvkistan and Nepal
ed from cultivators and
- thi ough the porta of Bom-
then tranaported else-
bay, Msuiras and Bhuba-
where and,.finally, haaded
neswar.
ovor to foreign agenta.
Tha report said a record
Opium amugglers, ac-
_
- scizurc of i,ooo kilo-
cordtng to the agency,
grammes of contraband
play an. lmportant role tn
opium was made in Mad-
Indian poltttca, contribu-
hya Pradesh a(one this
ting funds tb local and
y car.
parl iamentary , elections.
The opium-producing
Politicians cultivated thcm
centres are sttuaced in the
for money and paid back
tViree large nnrth Indian
thrpugh favourc, tt addcd.
states rif Macihya Pradesh,
The Narcoties Dapart.
lJt*ar I'radcsh and Raja-
ment believed that one
ath:n. '1'hcy together
incent.ive- to smuggling
account for about 8o per
was, the low Government
cent of the world produc-
procurement price for
tioii.
opium. The department
Smugglcd lndian opium
felt smuggling could be
was also finding its way to
reduced if the price could
Sri Lanka and Mauritius,
lie increased by at least
the agcncy said, yuot'ing
2o ti) 3'o per cent.
Minister of State for
' NABIAFP
Finance SS Sieodia.
The avcragc yield of
opium, aiso known as
�'black gold", per hectarc
CSO: 5300/4910
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RECORD 17-YEAR SENTETICE IMPOSED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Wellington THE EVEIQING POST in English 13 Nov 81 p 14
[Text) AUCKLAND, Today (PA). The fanancier and organiser of an
- Auckland-based drng riag, aad the 26-year-old woman wha distributed the
narcotfes froal her Avondale 6ome, were sentenced to 17 years and 12
years jail respectively, by an Auckland High Court judge today.
Appearing before Mr Justice,
- Holland were Colin James Prast,
41, a company director of H121-
- sborough and Glenda Faye
Menzies, ianemployed bank teller
of Avondale.
Prast had earlier admitted one
- count of importing heroin, Ehree
counts of importmg morphine,
one couat of conspiring to imporC,
heroin, one count of conspiring to
supply heroin and two counts of
supplying morphine and heroin.
Charges Menzies had been found guilty,
after a trial lasting three weeks.
on one count of supQlying heroin
and one of supplyu' ~g morphine.
The judge said the case was the
gravest of its kind to have yet
come before the New Zealand
courts in relation to drugs.
Prast was the orgamser, the
financier and the brains behind
the importing and distributiori,
ring.
Motivated by greed,he had set
up the organisatioa with a good
deal of skill and ability.
He used a coinrier to traveI tQ
the East to purthase dru8s and
that rnan's functioa was com-
pleted when he :eft the narcotics
in an Air Nevo Zealan,d aircraft or
at a terminal. Theq Were pickecf
up by someone naknown to hitu,;
he said
Prast then engaged an Air New
Zealaad employee to take the
drugs off the. plane and to hide
them. On 6is instrnctions, Menzies.
uplifted them, hid them again, and
then distributed thern in the North
Island. The judge said the e~cpenses;
were tugh but that Prast, com-~
pletely uncancerned aboat the ha-~
man misery caused by his actions,'�,
played for high stakes.
There could be fittle regard for
his or his faruily's personal cir-
cumstances, or for his rehabilita-
tion.
"It is important that those wtw
attempted Go deaFin hacd dniBs
know they will not t,e treated leai-
ently; ' he sald.
The longest term of imprisao-'
ment imposed in New Zealand for'
a drug o fence was 16 years for a:
man called Ctrtis, convicted on'
one count of importing heroin. It
was not insigaificant that Gurtis
had oace been Prast's partner.
Tt:e judge said not only had
Prast beea operatmg over a sub-
stantial period, he had admitted'
four specific importations.
In September and agaia ia De-
cember, last year;'~fhe courier
purchased about lkg of morphine
on Prast's instractions.
In February, the caurIer at-
tempted to purchase one pound of
morphlne but f,he mission was
:borted. In March, in t6e vicinity
of a kilo of heroin and 250gra
of morphine were purcluased, and
in April 600 grams of morphine
had been imported by him.
The street value of both drugs
at that tune was betweea ;100
and $150 a gram.
Value
"The value of the importations,
without the drugs beiag cut, was
accordingly ;500,000, but the
evidence showed that you con-
templated reducing those drugs
three to one," he said.
"If that was applied thrnugh-
ouf, the street value may well
have been in the viciqity of
;1,500,000."
The judge, w6o had earlier in-
dicated tbat be intended to impose
a substantial fine on Prast in addi-
tion to a jail terno, said it seemed
that Prast had succesafully tudden
his "ill-gotten gains".
That was nut surprising for a.
man who used the names of de-
ceased cWldren to obtain faL.ae
PassPocts.
CSO: 5320/9105
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PAKISTAN
INEFARIOUS BUSINESS OF NARCOTICS' DISCUSSED
Karachi JANG in Urdii 9 Nov 81, p 3
[Text] In spite of the complete ban on liauor, opium hashish, and other narcotics,
intoxicated and stoned people are arrested everyday, or large quantities of narcotics
seized. From this, it is very clear that these drugs are being prepared inside the
country and al.so being smtiggled in. According to a report, tincture which is
prepared f:or Palice P'oundation hospitals, after being transferred to the druggist,
is sold at a much higher price. Former Inspector General of Police and Chairman of
the Foundation Haji Habib-al-Rahman has admitted that prior to this report a similar
- kind of complaint about another drug was received. Consequently, the Foundation
stopped its marufacture. The residents of Pathan have complained that liquor, hashish,
_ opium and mandrake is being sold openly. The people involved in this nefarious
- business make catea~kint women, ildren hmandrake addictsby brandishing
them, and they ar g ch
- them because good citizens dare not quarrel with these heodlums.
It is a coincidence that both these reports have been received simultaneously.
Otherwise such reports arrive every day. The reality is that in this situation, not
only criminals but also the police, people from the Excise Department, and respectable
members of the community are involved as well. Without them, this business could not
be conducted. From the pr.eparation to the sale of these drugs, many stages are
traversed. In the face of all the restrictions and bans, all these stages are easily
bypassed. We were amazed at the logic uf stopping the manufacture of a drug in the
Police Foundation inasmuch as it comes out and is used on the street for addicts in
, the public. If a similar thing is proved about tincture, thenhoits spitalsfanduthewill
also be sropped. Now the question arises as to w
patients do whu need it as well? It is like preventing the grinding of flour in a
flour mill where the miller chuoses to adulterate the flour.
We demand of the governmenr that it keep a strict watch over th3s nefarious business
oE drugs and in whatever area sucL husiness may be conducted, the police and the
F.xcise Deparrment people shoul.d be held accountable for it and punished severely.
9859
CSO: 5300/4544
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PAKISTAN
CULTIVATION, TRAFFICKING, ABUSE OF DRUGS IN PAKISTAN
Lahore VIEWPOINT in English 15, 22 Oct 81
[15 Oct 81 pp 22-231
[TextJ THE ILLfC[T production of
- opium io Pakistan, despite scrict
controls by the Government, had
for quite some timo exceeded
that of tbe infamous Golden 'Cri�
angle on the borders of Thailand,
LaOs and Burma. But, its largr
scate conversion into heruin, a
fastet-than-anticipated increasa in
_ the smuggling of the drug from
- Pakistan to Europe and the Unit-
ed States, and the discavery of
Pakistani heroin addiccs are caus-
ing considerabie concern to nar.
~ cctics concrol agencies. I'here
is a well�founded fear that the
couatty coulcl become a major
source of heroin for the interna�
tianal market. It has atreaiy
taken a lcad over its opium�pru-
ducing neighbours - TurScev,
Afghanistan and lran-commonly
known as the Golden Crescent,
The bulk of the rising produc-
tion, according to narco!:cs cun-
trol agencies, comes from ram
shackle laborator~es that have
sprouted in ihe sacalled tribal
belt alonK the border with AfAhan
istafl. It is believed that there are
abuut 20 such labs and that
rach can producc up to 110 kilo-
grams of pure hcroir a mon!h.
'Che peoplc who refine the opiurn
in crude makeshift labs in the
iribal belt are bel:PVed co be
collaborating with dealers from
- Thailand, They usually work to
apecific orders mrd move from
one vitlage to aoother t0 avoid
detection.
It is, of course, not the local
trafFickers alone who are turning
to heroin; gangs of incernarianal
smugglers have been lured by the
cheap prices and the prospects ot
fat profit;. In the past they useu
to come here in search of op:um
and 'hashish' sources but are now
dealing in heroin instead. The
pclice have picked up around a
dozen for.eigners this year who
were involved in what is called
"che Pakfstani connecrkm", The
most experienced traders hire
"carriers", usually groups of two
or three local inhabitants haviag
good experience of sl:pping
through security checks and poti-
ce patcols. The rraffickers usually
make straight for Peshawar and
the tribal belt, which is Aow con-
sidered a major drugs centre.
Indian transit points
India has become a verv im-
portant transit point for drugs, a
clear.;ng house into which come
opium�based drugs. like morphine
and heroin. from, the Golden Tri-
angle as well as the Goldea Cra
sceat, India is a very convenient
cauldron for drags-easy bai) law
and lenient ariti+trafficking regu-
lations in India attract drug traRic-
kers in large numbers. There are
other and equally important rea-
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sons why more and more drugs
However, the output is still very
are now pouring intd lndia from
high since it is estima'ed that 150
the Crescent. After the Soviet in-
metric tons of.op~um can feed a21
tervention in Afghanistan, the
the World's addicts for a year.
iand roure which was used to
Over the past one year, narca
carry the drugs to Europe from
tics traders 6ave been parsuading
Pakistan became useIess. Indian
the tr:besmen to conPert their
airports, consequently, have be-
opium stocks into � heroin, which
come more popular and less dan�
is more manageablt arid lucra-
. gerous cake-off points. Secoudiv,
rive. Opiunt has a dist:nctive
' India's importance as a tmnsi;
smell and is difficult to transport,
point increased because it is con�
but 10 kgs, can be re6ned inta
_ sidered a"soft" place. ln India, a
Qne kg. of hecoin, which is far
distinccion is made between dnig
less noticeable at security and
abasers and traffickers; the for-
customs check-points,
mer get about a year in jail or
less, while the sentence for pus�
in general, the Government has
_ sessiro of narcotics is upto seven
tried constienti0usly to curb nar-
years, but seldam more than
cocics production and smuggling.
chree vears are awarded, The
After the baaning ef aarcotics two
tines are ridiculously low-sel�
y+ears ago, the planting of poppy
dom higher than Rs. 30,000 for
has been virtually outlawed; no
traffickers.
licences have been granted for
F(,, heroin, Pakistan these day-,
legal harvesting. The penalty for
is che iocal poi,nt. Traffickers
narcocics consumptiun under Is-
have succeeded in inducia8 the
lamic law is 80 lashes and [wo
people in the northern tribal belt
years' imprisonment. But, even
to produce heroin for export to
this does not appear to deter local
the Uniced States and Europe
and foreign traffickers, ofteit
rather than send raw opium or
linked whh interaatioual nec
morphine to Europe, where pro�
wdrks. Heroin can be bought in
_ cessors would reap mast of the
northern Pak:stan for a compara�
pro6t as middlemen. A rerent
UVelY � low price of, U.S. $
drop :10 opium pr-acess and the
0O
E
o'
,
stepped'uQ concrol resulted in
uro
r U S. $ 50-100 eW0 a
P
e
the former's stockpiling tons of
k8. or in the U.S. for U.S. S
raw opium ip the tr:bal areas.
17 5-200,000 a kg. So a kilo oE
The officials monitoring the trade
beroin can make a smuggler a mil-
say the shift toward heroin pra
lionaire overnighc.
ducrion amounis to a substanrive
'
and ominous change.
Big hau1s
"Mostly a large number of inde-
pendent free�lancers are involv-
Pakistan's byggest narcotics
ed", said a law enforcing official.
haul was made in ApriJ this year
"Some have brought in European
Nhen a Pakistani was arrested at
- rhemists, but refining poppy down
Yslamabad airport with five
co morpbine and then to injecta�
kg, of heroin worth around U.S $
ble heroin No. 2 is something that
500.000 on tbe foreign market.
uny one could do by following
Last month, there were two big
written instructions".
herain hauls in the country, On
September 23, Kazac6i Eacise
Output high
Police unearthed a heroin-extrac-
taoa plant in an apartment in the
- lc is interestilag to note that
denselY-PoPulated People's Co-
opium producrion in Pakistan hea
lony in North Nazimabad. .The
been cut down from a world re-
accused, Musharaf Shah of Pesha-
cord of 500 tons in 1979 to arour.d
war, admitted his links with the
125 tons over- the past two years.
narcotics "king", Khayali Khaii
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of the uibal area, with wbom he
was working as "helper" after
- gettinQ training from a Thaa ex-
pert. The police found 11 kg. oF
refined herain ready for exporr.
The other haul was in Islamabad
on Sept. 28 when the Customs au�
thorities seized heroin wortli
about a 1.5 milliun on foreign
market from a car. The authorkies
arrested an Afgnan nat:enal, Sar
war, who was smuggling heroin
into Islamabad from the tribal
area. The heroin has been pouring
into the Capital brOught there by
his agents who reportedly deliver-
ed ic to some foreiRners to be
smuggled abroad.
Far the lasc many years, how-
ever, wheaever the authorities
seized narcotics, they have tried
to give an impression that the
whole underground "matia" is
being weeded our. But soon che
whole matter is hushed up and
_ things again become 'normal',
Before the promulgation of Hadud
Order of Feb, 7, 1979, there were
four prohibitory Ordinances and
- Qne Prohibition Act, besides
about a dozen Acts, regulatink
che sale, purchase and other as-
pects of the naccotics trade. While
the Hudud. Order repealed a:l
proh;bicion laws, the one relatirig
to narcotics was allowed to stand.
Later, ' a
draft law proposing a comprehen-
sive law to replace the existing
dozen or so drug�controlling
enactruents was shelved. Mean-
tidme, it has happened quite often
_ that due to lack oi cemprehea-
sion, the enforcement starT chal-
lans the culprits under irrele-
vant pr :isions resulcing in their
. acquitta! by the rourts.
Alternative crop,
ESorts at a tiigher level have
been made during the lasi few
[22 Oct 81 pp 25-261
[Text] pRUG ABl'SE in the past feY:
vears has become a signi6ranc
14
years to reduce illicit production
of op:um in the country, Tha
United Nations has sponsored a
number of projects to wean poppy
farmers away from opium and
attract them to alternative cash
craps. An irrigated pilot scheme
in Buner, in northern Pakistan.
has had some success with the
local landowners who have swit-
c4ed oyer to qther crops. They,
have had little effect in the uibai
belt, however. Ezperty point out
the ditTicuJties in persuadiqg a
poppy fazmer to give up his an-
nual income of U,S. f 1,000, trvice
that of income from ap average
Pakistani field, espec:ally when
traffickers arrive ac tha farmer's
door w=th seed and cash iq ad?
vance co pay for the ctop. Apart
from the cribal belt, a lot of pop-
py is being grown in places like
Air and lower Swat.
On the ocher hand, the increasa
in supplies of hero:n has beea
accompanied by a rise in the
number of Pakistani heroia ad�
dicts, a fact which is causing alarm
at every level of scciety. The Pak-
isran Narco[ics Cootrol Board
has acknowledged the "growing
daager" a Eew moaths back, Tradi-
tionally, Pakistan has had an opium
problem, especially in northern
area where the tradition of chew-
ing Opium is passed from father
to son. .4lthough an esrimated
150,000 drug add~:cts in the coun-
try chew opium or smoke hash�
ish, iew have until this year beea
iatroduced co heroin. Heroin has
become more readily available
only during the last few months.
The authorities are now discover�
iag youngsrers turn`.ag to heroin
at some places in northern Pakis~
tan.
The new heroin trai] from Pak-
istan's cribal areas is a challenge
both for international drug figh�
ters and law-enforcemenc agenr-
ies inside the country,
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universit}� campuses. A pattern ef
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mix-clrug abuse has rmergea very
rap:dlv and the use o;' psychu
tropic drug,., which include man-
drir and mo-phine, is rising ar
an alarming rate. At the rehab;�
liLation cencres `.n the country.
&ve out of six patients are su:ier
ing from poly-drug abuse.
Since the total ban on the use
of narcotic drugs, fvllowed by ihe
promulgation of the Hadd Order
on Feb. 9, 1979, no reliable statis-
- tics are available, but before the
ban was imposed there were
4,50,000 registered addicts io the
- country, in addition to a large
number of illicit users. Since the
abolition of "Theka" (licence
shop) system in Pakistan, a nunn-
ber of morphine and heroin manu-
facturing Eactories have come up
- iR the tribal areas. The pheno�
menon of mix-drug abuse has ap-
peared espec.ally a'ter this ban.
The reason is very simple; before
the ban the addicts were getting
the drug of the-r choice free!y
and usually did not shift to any
~ other; now they take whatever
j they can get and what is easily
I available in the market. ln the
past, eHoru were concea'rated
~ on checking the illicit production
! of opium, and with the assistance
i of the United Narions a number
; of projects were carried Qut.
; However, this process caused a
j shift ia the trend of drug abuse
in the country. A majority of
; opium add:cts turned to psyclic-
tropic druRs, speciall,y the stimu-
i lants. Besides, abour 60 tcns uf
I opium out ef che total annual
' productioh-whicb is placed at
' 125 tons by the PNCB and thricc
as much by the internatiunal
agencies-is stil consumed hN.
the Iacal addicts
At present, there exists an in�
tricate country�wide narcc,tics
network tvhich is rapidly getting
mure efticient, sophisticated and
deadly. It invo(ves not onlY the
pedlars on the srreecs in variou.
- "notorious areas" of diflerent
tities and towns but also m;llion-
air; smugKlrrs in cities, like
Lahore and Karach;, who havc�
cxcrllene connect.ons amonK sume
very intluential people. 7 he net
15
wnrk runs deep and wide and its
tentac{e ~ have spread even irito
jails.
One of the doctors, who has
treated some uf the drug addicts
insidP ;ails, told `Viewpoint' that
it was obv?ous the addicts were
regularly gerting their supp:iec.
"If they were not, the} wou)d be
violent and desperate...you can't
imagine bow desperately cheir
bedies � need the drugs. lf you
tnuch the sromacli of a morphine
addict, who has been off the drug
for some time, you will feel as if
an animal is kieking from evithin.
But the ones I saw were quiet......
'Establis6ed traditions'
The ill:cit crade is being
carried out under certain "esta�
blis6ed traditions" and the "un-
derworld" is extremely well-or-
gan:sed and methodical. A burvey
in Lahore by this correspondent
reveals that at present there are
abouc a dozen groups, comprising
eight to ten persons each, who
operace nearly 100 dens in dif�
ferent parts of the city. The com-
mcn practice is that if anybod}
wants tu operate a den in a parti�
cular area, he has to "come to
terms" with the head of che
'group' in h:s area for "formal
sanction" and "legal p: o:ection".
Then there are no less than SO
wholesalets in the city whose
"commodities" are supplied to
various dens.
For chemical drugs, the retail
market consists of drug stores and
den-keepers. One can easily get
mandrix, barbiturates, amphate-
mines, pathedine, infadamine 'and
morphine from drug stores in
any part of che coun'ry. These
den�keepers and retailers have a
number of employees-the so-
calIed drug-pushers. And where
these drug-pushers are reluctant
to go, for example, in the slum
areas, drug-pedlars are engaged,
and most of them are venders or
petty shop�keepers belonRir..g to
rool� families,
liowever, after che promulga-
linn of :he Hadd Order, the �7e-
ta'l operation" fer the sale ut
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'charas', oF,iun. and uther cuntrd�
bands has becume furttier com�
plicatrd. The major dens have
disappeared and now the dru;
pushers either sell contrabands in
little strips and pieces-with the
cdlaboratior tf addicts-or use
small shop�1:: epers and vendors
for this purpose. 1'h� area of
l.yari in Karachi, for example,
serves ac a model inr such "d:>-
rr.butio channels".
Growini; sniuggting
Thr smur-gling oE (Ipium and
'chares' frum the tribal areal has
co7siderablv increased during the
last two years. It started with the
Saur Revolution which blocked
the drug business as the main
route - acruss the Afghanistan-
lran border-was closed. Now
'charas' and opium are concealed
in trucks taking goods to Karachi
from Peshawar and other parts uf
[he PIN'FP. Althoagh this route
is not `safe', the smiegglers-mest�
ly having incernatioaal connec�
tions-tai:e up che ctiallenge as
samething normal to their crade.
The arithmetic is simpie and
stunn:ng, One k'.logram of `hash-
ieh' custs 150 [0 200 dullars in
Pakistan. In the tlnited S*ates, i:
fetches as much its 3,200 dollars.
htorphine which can be bought
hcre for 3,000 dollars a kilo sells
for 70,000 dollars in America.
A measure of the scale of nar-
cotics trafficking can be had from
the fact that during the period
July 1980 co June 30, 1981, che
Pak;stan Custom seized following
drugs: Opium, 1,996 kg: Charas,
10,678 kg; Herc,in, 26.625 kg;
Hashish oil, 25,010 kg; Morphia
1.95 kg; Cochine 11 phials and
Mandrix 2.1 million doses. The
street value of these contraband
narcotics rn the internatiunal
market was esr.mated at 93 mil�
lion dollars.
Mcan,ime, it is believed that
there are nci less thun 800,000 re�
gular drug addicts in Pakistan. A
particular rause for conrern ic
the increasc in addiction
amunK thr younger generaton. A
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cCnservative escimate has it that
10 per cent of Yha student popu-
lation uses various kinds nf nar-
cotics such a , `hashish', morphia,
heroin, amphetamines, etc.
The uneducated ' youth, in
general, are addicted to `charas'
The sacalled `rocket' (Salconal
sodium) has gained immense popu
larity among them, The 'rockets'
which are consideced most harm�
ful of all the modern - sedatives,
are available in total markzt for
1.50 paisa each.
I studied over thirty students
wbo were involved in drug abuse,
at least ten of them were on mari-
juaaa. Anotber group of tea stu�
dencs had gone over to mixed
drugs. Most of the drug�users
were men excepc ia the case of
'valium' rvhere'six of the ten stu-
deats were womaa.
In the limited space here, the
findings can be presented only
briefly. The procedure followed
has been to analyse a few iadi�
viduat cases, determine the pre�
dominant trends, select represen-
tative cases for each group s:udi�
ed, end condense and disguise
these cases withour sacrificing
the basic facts.
'itiell-oft families
7he survey, in general, re%eals
that most of the male and female
drug addicts come either irom
middle��lass or aPfluent :amilies.
The -male student-- nn che whole
are now shifting to psychotropic
drugs and seem to have passed
the stage of `hashish'. The girls,
however, have taken ' more to
tranquillisers and barbiturates
than pspchotropic substances. Sut
some girls are also seek:ng refu-
ge in pa:hedine after it became
vecy popular among, the educated
youth.
`A', a young man with a plea-
sant, iotelligent face, came out
wearing bluc jeans, and 'a khaki
shirt wora outside his jeans. He
vividly described his confus`on
over what he wants to do. He dis-
likes university life and observ.
ed: "Everbody comes in, does the
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and gets degreei".
goes on
same
mined by fate and does not per-
,
,
_ `A' began co smoke 'hashish'
ceive anyching he has done as be-
- during his first year at the univer�
ir.g of his own choosing,
- sity, becoming heavily addicted
in his final year. He explained
Emotional strain
that he liked `hashish' because it
�ag�
"softens his competitiveness
'C' �is twenty, an excellent stu-
,
gressiveness and combativene.-s",
dent, with a fairly remarkable
traits he w9uld like to get r'd of.
academic career. Her pac ents op�
:Ie connected these symptoms with
poseri her academic ambitions,
his fami}y, whirh he described as
feeling that work was not :m-
very achievement-oriented; his
portant for a woman, 5he, how-
father is a' successful physician,
ever, `.nsisted and got admission
he has a brother who is aGrade
in the univerfity. At the univer�
20 officer.
sity, she got attached to her
`A' saw his father as authWta�
classfellow 'Y'. Her parents op-,
; tive and dominatiQg at home, ad�
posed thP relationship and warn-
= ding that his father wanced' co
ed her that she would have tu
see him a"very successful" man
abandon, her studies if she ever
`
in life whereas he saw che com�
Y' outs:de the uni-
tried to meet
petitive side of himself as "mean�
versity, `C' says she dees not wanr
'
ingless". He agreed that using
. She in-
to be another `martyr
'
drugs had played a large part ;n
, will
sists that marriage with `Y
his etTorts- to resolve the difficul-
ges her away from her family and
ties he had w:th his family, and
make her feel less "inrerior".
those aspects of his fa.her that`he
r+reeks when 'C' was
For a few
so "dislikes in himself".
.
under the strain, she use,d sleep-
`B', a twenty�one�year�old, clean�
ing pills, Now ahe is dependenr
cut, final year student, has' been
on valium to pragramme her wak-
on mandrix for six months and
ing and sleep hours. She has
has built up a ten-rupee�a-day
dooming herself to fu1611ing her
- habit,
mother's goals uf "self�sacrifice'
`B' connected his introduction
and renunciation of ambition and
to mandrix rvith his relationship
pleasure. .
_ with a young woman he saw in
So far, the authorities hare
his first year at che university,
only, from time to time, rec�ardecE
although he does not understand
their eoncern over the ever�in�
how or why wamao and mandrix
creasing use of drugs and presErib-
came into his life at the same
ed some measures to fight the
r;n1e,
mtynace. But because they have
The relation'shipended and his
no reliable data on which to base
mandrix use subsided. But his
thcir recomrrtiendatioas, their
i,.ivolvement with another . wo�
anti-drug crusade has praved an
man, 'X', has led to takiag mand-
exerc:se in futility. Not a single
rix in greater amounts than ever
study has beeo undertsken so tar
oefore. He says he would like to
to 6nd the causes of drug addic-
marry 'X' bur his family circum�
tion.
stances do nut permit it in the
The Pakisran Narcotics Control
near future.
Board, after the complete prohi-
His mother foughc constantly
bitioa of drugs two years back,
over his father's dcinking and the
established seven drug treatment
- f:imily's lack of money. He descri�
and rehabilitation cen!res These
bed his mother, who works in a
centc�es are working in Lahore,
hcspital, a'miserable woman' whc)
Fiyderabad, Rawalpindi, Pesha-
throughout her Ufe had t� fight
war, Chamalabunir (Swat), Quet�
for her children's future. .
ta and Gilgit. However,, these cea-
'B' dreams of himself ay the
tres have prQVed to be quite in-
passive speccatel- of liis own ac.
effective. Firstly, because the res-
t:ons. He sees h`.s life as deter-
ponse of the. people is very poor
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and, secondly, because they cover
a very smalt area and the vast
majority of the add`cts cannot
reach the centres.
Not enoug6
' Dr. Ijaz Haider, Director, Drug
Abuse Programme, Punjah, talk-
ing td `Yiewpoint', said that his
studies showed tbere were more
addicts ac places like Sahiwat,
Sialkot, Okara, lhang, etc., than
Lahore. He made it clear that by
upening a few centres, it was im-
possible to control, even oa e
very minor level, the abuse af
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drugS in the country.
Present:J, at the Drug Treat-
ment Cencre, Mayo Hospital,
Lahore, there are only 100 pati-
ents who are main!ained on opiutrt
tablets supplied by tbe Eacise
and Taxation. authorities. This
figure is aegligible in view of
tfie total number of opiura addicts
even in Lahore. The rest, of
course, are continuously getting
opium and other drugs from
-other "sources", Dr. Ijaz Haider
suggested that there must be cen-
tres at every district. headquarters
as the majority of opium addicts
belong to the rural areas.
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PAKISTAN
BRIEFS
sub-
CONTRABAND DRUG SEIZED--About 600 kilograms of secobarbital, a psycho-tropg~erda
stance,to the tune of Rs 30 crore in the fo.reign underwarld, was seized y_ y
by the speciaZ checking squad of the customs in a surprise raid. Packed in 20
suitcases the contraband drug was booked from Salzburg, Austria, and was destined
for Lahore in different names under the declaration of old and used clothes and
personnel effect. The 1971 UN convention on psycho-tropic substance control re-
stricts its use and it is abused by converting it into capsules for narcotic ad-
dicts. Preliminary investigations have made important revealation which can lead
to arrest of certain important anti-social elements. Meanwhile, the Member (Cus-
tom) Board of Revenue, G. Ashraf Jehangir, accompanied by the Collector (Preven-
tive) Mohammed Akbar yesterday inspected the seized contraband and appreciated the
customs performance. (Karachi BUSINESS RECORDER 3 Dec 81 p 11
AID TO END POPPY CULTIVATION--Islamabad, Dec 2--United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse
Control (UNFDAC) will provide Pakistan 4.2 million dollars as support to expand its
efforts to eliminate opium poppy cultivation in the Buner area of the North-West
Frontier Province (NWFP), under an agreement, signed here today. The Pakistan
Narcotics Control Board (PNCB) will implement this programme in co-operation with
the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). [Karachi BUSINESS RECORDER 4 Dec
SlpB]
HEROIN SEIZURE---Custom authorities in Karachi have seized eight and 1/2 kilograms
of heroin powder from a cargo vessel. The raid was carried out when the vessel
was about to depart for its destination in Western Europe. Estimated cost of the
heroin powder on the international ma.rket is stated to be about 85 million rupees.
[Karachi Domestic Service in Urdu 0200 GMT 11 Dec 81 BK]
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MEXICO
COMMU'I'ATION OF TRAFFICKER'S SENTENCE CRITICIZED
Nuevo l.,aredo EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 5 Nov 81 Sec D p 3
[Text] It is only a matter of hours before the doors of the municipal jail wilt
open and offer a release to one of the most dreaded gunmen and drug traffickers,
who terrorized the population of.Nuevo Laredo during the Mafia period.
}le is Yedro Gaytan Elias, no less, who had been sentenced to 17 years in prison
in various trials, including those for murders and drug trafficking on a large
scale. He served only 9 years, and the rest of the sentence was commmted,(;as;a:
result of his attorneys' appeals to the Supreme Court of Justice.
Gaytan Elias, who was one of the most powerful members of the underworld organization
on this border, had entered jail in 1973, following the intervention of Salvador del
Toro Rosales; and since that time the battery of defenders began using influence
"above" until they achieved more flexibility on the part of the justice system
regarding the penalties that had been imposed on him.
. Despite the fact that the convicted individual had led a dissolute life, upon enter-
ing jail he was appointed head of several floors; and it might also be mentioned
that while inside this jail he dealt in drugs and was even the brains of the lower
echeions of the powerful organization that had been destroyed by the arrival of the
federal groups.
iPiirtliermore, when Federico Carrasco Gomez confessed to the series of crimes that he
- had committed, in (7uadalajara, he named Pedro Gaytan Elias as the one who had ordered
the execution of Comdr I'sverardo Perales Rios.
Understandably, the release of this Mafia member will result in other pr9.soners
accused of these same crimes notitaking loandtbelongetorthencellsaofethe notorious
that nearly all of them are millionaires,
Mafia octopus which operated on the bor+ier.
Of What Use Was the Effort of Del Toro Rosales?
The r.ecord that was left In this town by Salvador del Toro Rosales, by fighting
bareilandedly to destroy two international drug trafficking rings which had spread
terror almost on a national scale, was not backed by the federal justice system;
because despite the fact that he jailed the most dangerous members of these crime
syndicates, since the latter had enough means to silence the high courts, the
majority uf them succeeded in recovering their freedom within a short period of
time; which causes one to think that the anti-underworld effort expended by Del
Toro was af no use.
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MEXICO
BRIEFS
- POPPY DESTRUCTION ACTIVITY--Since the weather is favorable for the pappy growing
cycle, the Ninth Military Zone has intensified its activities relating to the
CONADOR (Marihuana-Poppy) plan and, according to reports, it is in the southern part
of the state that the Mexican Army forces have been most active in destroying plan-
_ tations, reactivating this campaign. This information was provided by Brig Ge:i
Javier Vazquez Felix, commander of the Ninth Military Zone, to EL SOL DE SINALOK,
explaining that the activities are under way from Cosala to the very boundary with
the state of Nayar:Lt, toward the south, and with Durango, toward the east. He said
- that the activities also involve the vigilance associated with the Federal Law on
Arms and Explosives, whereby pistols and other weapons are taken from individuals
who are found to have them, so that they may first prove their legitimate ownership
as well as showing the permit for carrying them. In this connection, Gen Vazquez
Felix said that the gun confiscation in the mountain area and in locations in the .
southern part of this capiCal has made it possible to reduce the formation of gangs
acting, in that region in an attempt to commit crimes against the citizenry. With
- regard to the number of plantations destroyed, the commander of the Ninth Military
Zone stated thaC, according to the reports received to date, more poppy than mari-
huana plantations are involved, and they are continuing to be discovered in the most
remote areas, where the Army troops are going to destroy those plantations. He
concluded by saying that the instructions from the Secretariat of National Defense
are to continue the action aimed at destroying all the plantations which are discover-
ed, without pausing at any time, until that activity has been minimized to the
greatest possible ex.*.ent. [Text] [Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 23 Nov 81
pp 1, 4] 2909
HEROIN LABORATORY DL'STItOYLD--The destruction of a clandestine laboratory, with the
seizure of 85 grams of opium gum, and the arrest of four presumed drug traffickers,
constitutes another success far the action being carried out by the Office of the
Attorney General of the Republic in the permanent battle againsz crimes affecting
health. Reports obtained by EL SOL DE SINALOA from the No 6 coordi.naCor of the
permanent campaign against drug trafficking indicate that the second commander of
the Federal Judicial Police, Manuel Espindola Martinez, with forces under his
cammand, succeeded in conducting this operation in which positive results were
accrued frnm the investigations carried out to identify those who were dealing in
drugs. Hector Aviles Castillo, head of the coordinating entity, reported that$ in
Culiacan, Pedro Sarahia Garcia and his hrother, Loreto, with the same surnames,
were arrested along with their respective wives, Teresa Diaz 4~ Sarabia and Julia
Diaz de Sarabia, who had been helping them in their illegal activities. Having
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- confessed that they were engaged in the purchase and sale of opium gum, and in
processing that drug to convert it into heroin, the individuals under arrest pointed
out to the investigating agents the place where they had concealed 85 grams of a
dark substance with a penetrating odor, which is apparently opium gum, and also
indicated the site where the laboratory in which they had been processing those
- drugs was located. The place where they had concealed both the processing equipment
_ and the drugs themselves was located on the E1 Potrero f arm, in the municipality of
Cosala, where the investigators went together with the arrested subjects so that
the latter could show the exact spot where they had hidden all the laboratory
equipment and the opium gum. [Text] [Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 20 Nov
81 p 6] 2909
PILL, INHALANT DANGER CITED--Nogales, Sonora, 23 November--So long as there is no
legal provision controlli.ng the sale of tnhalants and certain toxic pills, the
lie