JPRS ID: 10519 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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14 May 1982
- Worldwide Report
NARCOTlCS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 22i82)
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JPRS L/10519
14 May 1982
WORLNI DE REPORT
, tVARCOT I CS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOIIO 21j92)
- CONTENTS
asia
AUSTRALIA
1wo Get Total of 12 Years in Jail for Heroin Trafficking
_ (THE WEST AUSTREII.IAN, 13 Mar 82)
Defunct Nugan Hand Bank Chiefs Called Drug Traffickers
(THE AGE, 19 Mar 82)
Narcotics Bureau Report
Intarnatianal Heroin Dealing
Police Say Sunshine Coast Now Plays Leading Drug Role ~
(THE COURIER-MAIL, 19 Mar 82)
BURMA
_ Editorial: National Drug Campaign Rpvieved
(Bditorial; THE WORKING PBOPLE'S DAILY, 4 Apr 82)
INDIA
Record Drugs Haul Made, International Gang Detected
(PATRIOT, 16 Apr 82)
MALAYSIA
Drug Addiction Increasing iii Sarawak
(James Ritchie; NSW STRAITS TIIMS, 28 Mar 82)
NEPAL
Brief s
1wo Held On Narcotic Charges
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FoR oFFicIAL usB oxi.Y
PHILIPPINES
Briefs
Heroin Threat Noted 10
Reaction To Consul's Arrest In Chicago
(Bangkok Domestic Sercvice, 2 May 82; NATION REVIBW,
3 May 82) 11
Sitthi, Arun Comment
'NATYON REVIEW' Editorial
LATIN AMERIi:A
BARBADOS
Drug Official Warns Of Increased IIse Among Youth
(ADVOCATE-NEfiS, 15 Apr 82) 13
MERICO
Intergovernmental Cooperation In Drug Cases Di.scussed
(EL DIARIO DB NNEVO LARBDO, 30 m-er 82) 14
Six-Year Anti-Drug Campaign Reviewed, Praisecl
(NOTIMEX, 14 Apr 82) 16
International Cocaine Trafficking Ring Disbanded
(EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LARL00, 27-28, 31 Mar 82, 2 Apr 82) 17
Connections Disclosed
More Arrests Made
Eleven Held for Trial
Probe Ends
Trafficking Ringleader Captured In Oaxaca
(EI. MARCIAL, 23 Mar 82) 23
Torture Of Captured. nrug 1Yaffickrers Denied
(EL MANANA, 2 Apr 82) 25
Incineration Of Colombian Marihuana Reported
(EL FRONTERIZO, 21 Mar 82) 26
Trafficker$ Captured With Heroin From Guerrero
(EL MANANA, 26 Mar 82, 3 Apr 82) 27
Arrests Announced
Jailing Ordered
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Drugs From Peru Seized At Airport
(EI. DZARIO DE NilBVO I.ARSDO, 7 Qpr 82) 30
Briefs
Wa,nted Trafficker Captured
PERU
31
State Enterprise To Control Coca
(ADP, 3 Mar 82) 32
Brief s
Narcoticss Seizure 33
Drugs 5eized 33
Drug Traffickers .Arrested 33
SIIB-SAHARAN AFRICA
LIBIItIA
Briefs
Marihuana Burned 34
WEST EtTROPE
DEhMARR
Dane Named Nordic Police Drugs 8epresentative To South America
(Anders Wiig; BERI.INGSKE TIDBNDB, 20 Apr 82) 35
Police In Provinces Establish ;~;eparate Drugs Divisions
. (BERLINGSKE TIDErIDP, 23 Apr 82) 36
Briefs
Copenhagen Drugs Gangs Broken 37
Cocaine Seized At Airport 37
ITALY
Foreign Undersecretary Proposal For Halting Drug Traffic
(IL TEMPO, 3 Apr 82) 38
SWSDEN
- Gang Smuggled Heroin, Used Funds To Aid Armenian Movement
(SVENSRA DAGBI.ADBT, 18, 25, 27 Mar 82) ...I 40
'Shoemaker' Gang Indicted, by Sune Olsson
Funded Armenian Liberation Movement, by Su-ne Olsson
Smuggled I?rugs Through Lebanon, by Margit Silberstein
Example of Large-Scale Models Abroad, by Margit Silberstein
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Briefs
- Charged In Hashish Smuggling 45
Telephone Tap Foils Drug Sale 45
_ SHITZERI.AND
1welve Cocaine Smugglers From South America Arrested
(tgy. ; IaEIIE ZtJERCHER ZEITUNG, 27 ZSar 82) 46
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AUSTRALIA
T6.'0 GET TOTAL OF 12 YEARS IN JAII. FOR HEROIN TRAF'FICKING
Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 13 Mar 82 p 26
[Test ] Two hemin tratCckers were gaoled tor a total of 12 yeus yesteraay
by the Chief Justice, Sir Francis Burt.
In the Supreme Court, -
the judge said he took
the view previously ex-
pressed by the courts
that the drug problem
stiould be attacked by de-
terrant penalties.
John Kizon (19). of
Hannworth Street, Bal-
ca4ta, who has represent-
eci Australia as an ama-
: teur boxer. was gaoled
'ivr rve years with a
twayear minimum.
E A middleweight, I{uon '
, fought in the Ifiin s Llup
in Thailand in 1979430.
' Craig Pattidc Martin
(25). service - statior at-
i tendant, of Murphy Way.
:�'arnbro, was gaoled for
seven years with no~
' minimum sentence.
~ Last month theq were i
convicted in a jury trfal;
of sellinA heroin at Mar-
ley in October last year.
Martin was also found
Quilty of an add[tional
chargc of havlnQ hcmin
in his posses.cion in Vta
toria Park in November
last ycar.
FOLIAWING
During thc trial, the
jury w:ts toltl that the
policr had tet�n following
the defen(l:ints Irorn a
jiouse in 161orley where
hcroin was later tound.
A detective said 4hat
.chen he puiled up along
;i:ie a sports car at traii-
ic lights the c1e(en(ianfS
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5300/7545
;umped out of the ve-
hicle, ~lesving the eag[ne
, running, and ran ofL
! Kizon had bern cap-
;tured atter a warning
shot was fired by the
police. Martin had es-
~caped at that time bnt
was arrested the next
! month.
( When the p o 1 i c e
searched the sports car
ed
~ they had fowid $900 in-
side.
The juage aaid: "Neith-
er of you took heroin,so
it is not a pse of an ad-
diM sustaining his own
addiction You were trad-
ing ior profiL�
Setttencing Martin, he
! said that Martin haaa
: committed the oifences �
! while on parok. In 1act.
: he owed the parole boSrd
, 25 tnonths.
Becaiase of Martfn's
long list of previous con-
victions, the C7Nei Jua-
; tice said, he was not pre-
i pared io impoae a mini-
, mum scntence in. Mar-
i tin's caae. ~
: Dealin wtth Kimn was;
' more diIIcult bersus-, he :
~ was a young man with a,
I g,ood repulation.
~ You were lnvolved in
` the distrFbutlon of druQs
; for protit and must ac-
cept the rnnreqnences
r shat," he said.
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AQSTRALIA
DEFL'NCT NliGF+2I H1l!`7D BANK CHIEFS CALLED DRUG TRAFFICICERS
Narcotics Bureau Report
Melbourne THE AGE in English 19 Har 82 p 4
EText j CANBERRA. - Nar-
oocics Bm+ean 81es
named ctx prlnapals
oC the taDed Nngan
Hand dank, Franlr Nur
gan anA Mideael Hand,
u impcrrtant flgures in
the hesoin mdastry in
P.,ustnlia, the I.eader
of the OpPositioa. Mr
Haydcn said yedw-
day.
He d-~ed a fu dwr ac-
tract iroas Nartatks Bur-
eau fi!es. -hieh be ltas
been disclosft this wedk
to qcestion the :iinister
for Admiristnt3ve Ser-
vices. 'Ntr Neamsan. about
the failure o[ the buresn
tu investigale information
9upplied to it aba+t the
bank before it oollapsed-
,Mr Hayden asked if
.%ir :Yewman was aware
I
that a nolc. dated 3May
1977. oTt the Niarcotics
Bureau 61es desaibed
Frank Nugan and Mkhac!
Nand is �hiMtr than
anythinr you have ever
secn hert in the htroin
rar.n and are said to be
part of an Amerk'an seo-
urity orRaOitrtion".
t arlier ia the wrerk Mr
Nsydea toid Pulfiimeat
tltst the boeads namber
two ol6cer. rir Brian
Bates. !ud ordered the
burem to eease lnvesll-
e tfie actlvfties o[
Csan Hand. This oeder
appears to have eane
after rccmlpt of the in-
( famicion oa the 51e
wbkh ;VIr Htydea rqd
W Puhjnmt yesterdaY-
(i'6e execnttve produc -
er of the (,banoel Nitte
programme National
M
Frykberg. ~+as dan1~ ~
repert in 'I'be Age oei
weanesday that du ~
}layden wis~ ~ files
wNich he bu been asltM
to question the Govern-
ment abaet the Nugan
Haod mauer).
btr Ha}-den YesterdaY
repeated bis previo'.ts re-
fusi, }n the faa ot
Govermntnt chailenges.
to table the 111es- He
sald this vrould endanRer
informants w-ho werc
named In the flles. He
saW they were Nareotics
Bureau 81es snd slauld
thereiore be availabk to
the GovetnmenL
Mr Hayden asked why,
it thtre had bcee a
'mort serious aed fntee-
~ Niegm HNev
aun bad elakned, ea
aetloe was taken "mnttl
after one d thas sbot
hlmseY 2% years later?"
btr Newniga aaid be
wat not aware of the re-
ports. 'Nor should 1 be,
beeame I had no t'espon-
sibWtq for the Nareotics
Bomu," be said.
The Prlme 1MHalsier,
Mt Fraser, told Parlia-
men yesterday uat be
6sd reodved the Srst re-
t~k toae, edabtb6ed bY
the NSW aad Fedenl
Govamnents, to lnvestl-
aate drug Uaeleldng.
The tmit tocee is ez-
amining the 6ndings of
the WilHatna aad the
Woodwatd Roya1 C,oni-
missiom an drugs. T6e
5rst repoK deais with
the actlvilies ot the
Ndsan Hand bank.
snd its dalings with
'.Hnrray Strwari Rileyr
and Harry WainwriqhL
International Heroin Dealiny
Melbourne THE AGE in English 19 Mar 82 p 4
[Text J SYDNEY. - The Nu-
gan Hand international
Dar:c ccntrolled the
running o drugs irom
3outh-tasE Asia to
Australia and A:n�~rics,
according to a man
who had deal:ngs wi[h
the bank's deputy
chairman, bU Michael
Hand.
The man, Mr Ardrew
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davwy.e'-[nd tc6 ~be~iinn~'ms
tbey startOd :off in i
smWi ...r am thea. it
~took nmq!n~~6
~ ~ p
N . �~Yr~rro
Mr Lovre. wbo told a
Channd Ninep~ogran~me
'Piatidnal Ptews Today'.
that he wLS a oooricted
dcnR deakr, said he had
introdueed kadas A[
Chineae trLds. ar trmin-
al societia. to Mr Hand.
'7ie. assured tFhm that hc
had accure methods ot
brikgft drngs into tbe
~ Vietnam. tboy
wae sbie a smuggle 20
to 40 pounds of berofn is
the bodia of dead GIs
back to the Shtes"
. Mr Lowe said he be-
lie+rod _ investigations of
the � a8ain of the. Nuqan
Hand been 2u'nr d~ by tu'gh-
}evd intecv~entioa 'Tm
not - sbk to mmtioa
names at this stage. but
tfiae wei+e high-tanking
Goverrnnent members
and paliticiins thst wete
111V0Iifld!' - ,
CSO: 5300/7547
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AiSSTRALI,A
POLICE SAY SL'I3SHZNE UOAST NOW PLAYS LEADING DRUG ROLE
Brisbane THE COi7RIER-MAZL in Enqlish 19 Mar 82 p 3
[Text) rtAMBOIIR. - The Sun-
shine Coast, particularly
Noosa, was the centre of a
heavy drug scene, accord-
ing Lo local CTLB chief. Sgt
B. Giover.
Sgt Gtover said yesterday the
Sunshine: Coast paa wpDllinQ.
drugs tor the rat of Australia.
Police regularly found plots of
1500 to 2000 Dlanta in the bush in
the coa" hiuterlaad. -
S o u t h e r n eriminaLs buFing
holiday homes on the 3unshine
Coast had helped to boost the
caasYs divg scene by 150 percent,
he said
Drug arrests on the coast had
risen bp 150 percent in the 12
mont2ts to last June. The in-
cidence of most other erlminal
offences had rf,sen at a steadp
zate of about 45 percrnt a yeu.
"BeenleiBh and 'the Gold Coast
are the oniq areas lncreaaing
more rap3dly," Sgt Giover said.
~We have s reallp hesvy dsnB
scene here, particularly in the
hoosa area.
CSO: 5300/7547
Sgt Glover said cannabis was
ttie dmg most commonlY gro*n,
but that Was aLto s Iot of goIdea
toPPed Mushrooms, coeslne and
heroin.
The coast h'a re�nur surterea
another spate of attempted drug
~*nists aDd dOC�
Eikehes frOm r-
tors' navgeries.
Yesterdsy Calamdrs 3tag1s-
trates' Cotut ww told that a maa
aew hIs owa cannabis because he
dtd not want to bxa~e assaet-
sted with the cwsYs drng ~
Glea RoT Y.utton. 29, of Laad-
sbmugh waa flned iM for the
cultivation of eannabia. =SO for
posxsdon of eannabis aad =150
for possession of s ntaildl fo!
. tating dtugs.
Luttnn pkaded 6uilty to the
charQes
Poliee Prountor. Canstable R.
Butla, said poifce fonnd eannabis
on.Lntton's PmPert7. gWwinB nD
to AOcza hlgh 1n Dota and up to
l.Sm hi8h fn the busb.
Mr L YeAlister. for Lutton.
said: "Se's grow1n6 it so he an
atay swa7 from d:vg usas aad
the drug scene."
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EURMA
EDI'CORZAL: NATIONAL DRUC CANPAIGR REFIIEWED
Rangoon THE FIORIQW. PEOPLE' S DAILY in English 4 Apr 82 p 4
- [Editorial]
[Text]
T HE problem of drug abuse is an evil
-
legacy inherited from the colonial
past. When the whole of Burma
became a colony with the fall of Mandalay
in 1885, the colotial regime stepped up its
opium trade with the sole aim of earning
more revenues with utter indifferenoe to the
consequences of the imposed evil. The
1878 Opium Act estabiished goverrtment
monopoly over the opium trade. In 1905
the government formed the Excise Depart-
ment and demarated the territnry east of
Salween as opium region and allowed the
local residents to abuse opium freely.
Although the dangerous drugs were banned
from the other parts of the country, pro-
fiteers ran opium dens in most maJor towns
and corrupt excise officers turned their eyes
the other way while the addicts wrasted away
and the vice merchants fattened up gadual-
Iy. . .
~ After the country proclaimed inde-
pendence in 1948, the government promised
to banish dangerous drugs totally from the
- whole country within five years and made
a number of anti-drug laws. The deadlive
however expired with the declared goal no-
vf+here near being . reaDized. After the Re-
volutionary Council came to power in 1962,
the problem of the abuse of dangerous drugs
vas given seraous attention. A oommittee
was appointed for the, task of oompiling a
report on the destruction of poppy planta-
tions, treatment of drug addiction and
revision and replaoement of outdated laws.
bn the recommendations of the committes
opium dens throughout the Shan State were
closed down and a crop substitution pro=
gramme was launched with the aim of
replacing apium poppy with other cash
OOHowever; the drug abuse problem
atsumod more senous proportions with the
appearance of a highly potent derivative of
the opium, heroin, in Rangoon in 1972. The
government enforccd the n�.w Narcotic
Drugs Law in 1974 enhancing the punish-
ment fdr dnag-relatesi offences. The First
l'yitha Hluttaw at tts.Fourti, Sessioa held in
bctober 1975 called for a national campaign
to_ camhat the drug problem. The Ministry
of Horae & Religious Affairs appointed the
Central Narcotic Drugs Control Board the
samt year with subcommittees , under it
charged with drug abuse prevention, treat-
ment and rehabilitation-of addicts, purchase
of lcg-Jty produced opium and drug abuse
Prevention education, -
I'6e Tatmadaw, with 2he cc-operation
of the poople, has bcen waging nurperous
rampaigns to suppress the drug prot3lem by
destroying poppy plantations. More than
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36,700 acres of poppy plantations were
wiped aut between 1975 and 1980. With
sssistance from the United Nations Funct
for Drug Abuse Control, a multi-faceted
programme to control drug abuse and re-
habilitation of the addicts is undEr way
since 1976. -
'I'he Party Chairman once pointed out
4hat the dangerous drugs can lead to extinc-
tion of entire nations. W'e must, therefore,
intensify the national: car,npaign, raise the
public awareness for drug abuse prevention
and attack the drug abuse probtem 'w'th
renewed vigour until total victory is
achieved.
CSO: 5300/5722
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= INDIA
RECORD DRUGS HAUL MADfi, INTERNATIONAI. GANG BETECTED
New Delhi PATRIOT in Englfsh 16 Apr 82 p 10
_ [ Text ]THE Directorate of Revenue
Intelligence (DYtI) hera has
detected an international gang of drug traffickers opera4
ing in India and Eumpean countries with tle sei:ure of
a huge quantity af superior quality hashisb at Deliu Air6
port early this week, reports
I7NI.
In the WgItest narcot[a htul
in Delhi !n recent years. 20 Y& al
Fluther interrotatioa ot tas
two fonlgn tfationals ravealed
baslush. ~stimated to be vrorth
that basLLh waa alletedb delbar
more Wan Rs 80 laths in the
cd b them At BomMvon 3 April
by a Pw~1aW atattlet aettled !n
underground world ot bvrope aad
Bombayr. The Lwo brwuAt the nar-
tbc United States, was recovered
cotics to Delhi on 9 Apri1�
on Monday niQht trom au un-
- clsimed suitcase wAth was smWt

~ smuggler'
gled clandestinely thmuRh the
~avtn coatacb in the under
8ouni wotid
wu dew�ed W
customs and pnt on the conveyor
,
the Bomb~v nnit oE DRl iah
Dnlt reportedly with the connl-
vanca oi some Vcwplc at the afr
akediately atter hfs invotvement
~
was dlvuYaed by the Mo foreign
~
W u ler
'Pbe Geaeva-bounC suikase rras
takcn out by the DRl aMdals
from the conveyor belt for
thomugh scrcenin,
'l~v~o foreign nationali a
Sw1ss aad a West German - are
baiag qaeslloned by the auttwrl�
ues.
The activltIes of the $ang hav
fog interuational ramifications
~nd responsible for smuRRling
hashish out ot 7ndta came to
Qght following inklllQence tathar
ed by DRI.
Thc DRI o~6dal3 aere intrigued
� Aow the suitcase with hasNsb waa
_ put ou the conveyor belt and b~
~vLom. Tbe suitcase 2~ad the in,
ternational airllne IaDeI for identt-
Rcation. Fbllowine investi;ation
it wss found t2~at the serles o!
- the label ot the aitliae was a!-
located to its Gene~�a station
and not DeinL
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nationals. The Put~a s~n `Q
had been Ueld under COFSPOSA
fn 1980 and the Mal of a
smugelinQ case a=atnst him wu
ctill Qoing on in a DeIL1 Conrt.
The Delhi contact of
the racketeers has re-
portedly absconded after
he heard of their deten-
tion. The DRI has thxown
its netwide to catch him.
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MALAYSIA
DRUG ADDIGTION INCREASING IN SARAWAK
Kuala Lumpur I3EW ST1tAIT5 TIMES in English 28 Mar 82 p 11
[Article by James Ritchie]
- ' Records �Aow that
that thcrc were Nightly
In tAo tollow-up the
ak lcam Icd 0y
3araw
the enti-dudaA authoe. TAe largc amount ot
Itics. Lut ycae: qgures �au"' '�tud 1a.t r�a*' Is
[ Ex c er p t s]
more than 300 apluRn ad-
,
CID chlct Asslslant
show that lhc .cisur.cs ~WO a� i~~~ ~lwitA
~
dlcta (therewerenore
CammlsNoner Danlcl
and areests liavc 1n- �
1�'~Alne In t1~e Ioea1 m.r
istered herola addlcls at
1.cong Nyuk MIn. which
crcased will, 94 aus-
kcl. depcndants were `cl-
that time) in 1970 - lhb
workcd closely witA the
pcctcd pushcrs bein6 ting despeRle tor aieA wa
bclng a lesacy ot the
AcadqaaMera !n KL.
picked up, atltwa.
days ot the "Whitc Ra�
Jan" who legalised
pickcd up two morc
mcmberi ot the syedt-
ACP Danicl I.coas arpakaies u.ve touna u
saidlhalamonaaomeot Imt ~~lpo
opium tarming as �
calc in Penang �nd
wak
the Wg succcsses wcre ~R~~~~H~~~
aource ot reveaue.
Kuching (one ot tAen
the arrdt ot a W6-time c~~ rmall dcmaad and
Even by 1975 the
�wassubaeq{~enllysentto
pusher, 1n Kuchin6. hl~hri~ks.
6rowlh bcgan slowly
~l+~u Jcrcjak toe lwo
~isu~ o( rolls of ' polIcchavcMcntlOadtho
wlth a sllsht Increase to
yean) whlle the master~
g&aja. the crecking up et arc,u ot demand aad Aave
37S addicb - botA ot
Th
mind was sentcnccd lo
flve yeua)
A tour-man 6+uig +nd bee^ +bk t� m�^ltw the
res ot 1a0 rolls ot movemcnt ot maC ot'tAc
dI
e
hcroln and oplum.
mcnace Salncd momen�
.
. 1977 was also a ai6nit-
e
su
ganja sl Kuala Buram. P1�hers and addlcta
Another taclor b the
lum uelil today. whcrc
icant ycar as the Statc
i
and the detcntloe ot s
t tr~~l dista^CQ IA the Btate.
thcrcareabout 1,000 re6�
dcntify
manaaed to
m&q and 1.700ams o
It ~"at �Naai"~ that
ialcrcd addlcts In the
the dnug proDlcm which
o lum al INirl.
p Eecaune ot tAls. tealflckers
Slate and possibly sbout
wns bo61nn1na lo Srow
Thrce peoPlc Includ- ha've tM KJL,.Kuchtns
the ume number ot un�
out ot hand.
Ing a woman wcrc de- mutG to aupply lbp town aad
rc6lstcccd oncs.
Thet Yeu 41 raid."
tRlncd In Bintulu wnd 108 slbu ncarlr 8ookm awar
I.ittla ettort wds put
werc carNed out wlth 80
am� or herotin scizea. whllc the K48nme1 routc
�uPPU' the towos turthcr
ieto wipiA6 out the prob-
auspccted dru6 pwhera
Though the problem
north au Ltlrl and I.Im-
_ Icm in the culy atagca
-
bclng arrcated. The wu
In the mld-70s dld not
ng
th
d
as there was minimal
a6ainst dadaA had
e

seem wldesproa
TO make hu tMp woMh-
data reguding hcroln
bcaun.
Stale dovemmenl was
~~mcker enwt
addlcUon. but ey ifTd
3ome of the hauls
tRr-elghled cnough to cs-
ebarV a "taiuaa" Br
there were reports that a
wcre an hl`h au 1,10gm
tablish a dotectloe cen- ~ime bwoln 1. qnualcd
,
syndlcate Ilnkln6
ot hcroln. saosm ot
tre Rt the 11th km trem tAe(ioldw 71r1angleto
Penan6. KL. Kuching,
oplum and 715gm ot rn�
p Q n r 1nee n r oad o n I*eeent; Kt. aod KucAlng It
a n d B a n d a e 8 e r 1
ie.
IrtaraA 29 1978. 3lmiler could cod between qo,ooo to
Bc6awan was makln6
approval was 61ven tor $MON Por Pourid In t1te
In�wads lnto 3arawak.
' DedjAe
81bu and Mlrl whcre the whalcsaM markM.
lThe syndicate wed
dadah dlmcaso aaa be' A tubc ot heroln In
Brunel u onc ot the{r
"drop-poiMs" be[ore the
This lemporarlly
s t u n o c d t h e d r u 6
ginning to spread. Kuchi"s t�day I' bct"
iendatlons Dy =16