JPRS ID: 9383 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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JPRS L/9383 7 November
1980
Worldwide Report
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUQ 47/80)
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JPRS L/9383
7 Novewber 1980
WORLIM IDE IPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 47/80)
CONTENTS
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
Police Thwart New, Nelbourne—5aied • Heroin Ring
(THE ALE, 4 5 Sep 80 1 CJR1U-14AIL, 4 Sep 80) .... I
Trial Run Stopped
Nelbourne Azre.t Reported
More Defendanti App.ar
Un.uccessf1 Heroin tiorter Sentenced to Jail
(THF COURI!R—KAIL, 5 Sep 80) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Brief.
Drug Thief Sentenced 4
Convicted Doctor Suepended 4
Australian Drug Seizurei 5
Australian Rashimh Seigure 5
Iureie Paper Notes Nationwide Drug Suppre.ion Efforta
(Editorial; Rangoon Dostic Service, 11 Oct eO) 6
Ianoon Police Arreet Eight on Heroin charge.
(BOrATAUNC, 28 Sep 80) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Briefs
Seizure of Raw OpitiB 8
Opiu. Seizure in Indaw 8
Ky.ikto Police Seize Opiu. 8
Rangoon Heroin Seizures 8
Hercin Possesiers Jailed 9
Herc.in Rude in Mong Hal 9
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HONG KON(
TIIAILANI)
Covernor Reports Progre.. in Antinarcotics Cuçaign (Murray MacLeho..; SOUTH CHINA NORN!NC POSTS 2 Oct 80)
firiefs
Drug Ring Smaihed
Thni Trafhcker Jailed
Prison Conditions for Drug Offenders Deecribed
(L’EUROPEO, 16 Sep 80) . . ............ . . . . •. •...
It1ians in Bangkok Jail, by Giovanni Forti Thai Official Interviewed Sharavit Yodmani Intrviev
Nakhon Phanom Governor Discueses Marihuana Control
( DAO SIAZI, 2 Sep 80) • . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Antinacotics Curriculum To Be Targeted in SchoolR (Sotriai Wongwitthayakun; SIAN RAT 4 Sep 80)
Marihuana Seized in Bangkok Warehouee
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BULGARIA
BOLIVIA
Hong Kong Heroin Trafficker
EAST EUROPE
Conference Against Drug Smuggling Meld
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LATIN AiRICA
Si1e Zuazo Says Coup Related to Drug Trafficking
(FL CARIBF., 1 Oct 80) . . . .
Interior Minister’s flrug Connections With Military Cited (Luiz Claudio Cunha; VEJA, 8 Oct 80) . ...
Govement Attempts To Reduce Coca Production
(PRSENCIA, 21, 22, 25Sep80) .....
President Appeal. to Farn*rs
‘PRESENCIA’ Haila Init.ative, Editorial
Report Cited
Price of Coca Protested
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Shoztagc of Fund. Limits Campaign Againet Cocaine
(Manoel Lima; 0 ESTADO DE SÃO PAUW 21. Sep 80)
Manaue Judge Sentences Cocaine Traffickers
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Habces Corpus Petition of Cuban Cocaine Trafficker Granted
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NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
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Brief.
Opium ArreAt
Five-Man Hashish Ring
Four-Man Narcotice Ring
liar ihuana Crop Yield
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Health
Drug
Food Instead of Hemp Stricter Penalties for Dealer8
WEST EUROPE
Drug Ring Head Arrested
Police Find Tone of Haghish
Official Urges Concentration of Effort on Younger
Addicts
(R. E. Knipschildt; BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 2’ Sep 80)
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BRAZIL
KUWAIT
I.EJIANON
NIGERIA
AUSTRIA
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CYPRUS
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Police Crack A1erian Drug Gang Wbkh Smuggled Maihish (Ander. t4iig; BERLINOSKE TWENDE, 8 Oct 80)
Physician Say. Faked Preicription. Were for Own Ue
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Fewer Youth on Drugs
T)ru Seizures Noted
Unemployed Heroin Addict Arrested
International Drug ‘Courier’ Expelled
Heroin Seized in Naples
Arreits in Italy
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Dieorder in Iran Responsible for Cheap Heroin Wave
(ARBEIDERELADET, 24 Sep 80)
Area Narcotics Police Chief Detaile New Drug Routes
(ARBEIDERBIADET, 25 Sep 80) ..............
(ang of Thai Swedith Drug Smuggler8 Charged
(Leif Dahiin; DACENS NYNETER, 16 Sep 80)
Court Cive Stiff Sentence8 to Turkieb Drug Sniigglers
(C1AeB von Tlofsten; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 11 Sep 80)
Gang Smuggled Heroin From Thailand
(SVENSKA DAGBLADET 23 Sep 80) ........
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NORWAY
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Detacttv In Australia, Thai. land, and th. PhIIippn.s bok. up a M.bourn.bai.d Intarna. donal heoen ring oe its first iaI run, poftc.aa*d iwtai’d.y. Detlctlv Serpiet Torn laker
of e Fedeat pdllc d, unft,
- Op.aUoe Iemw wu b. Jim when Vlctciiu p01.
ke ud thit a attempt a1d btDpccthwoato
Ii 1*. t ciiis for th. rb4 Wt to Biigkok aad two fli wt to Manila, h. ilid. The Imigigok courrs wern o bq the hron. fly t to ManUa
it to the’ othir courrs for riarn to AuslIa.
t.ry yimsday Fidemi polk. ,)ded tour houiee Ia Elwood. Feim 11111, Zest St Kild. and Armid.e. A iir.aII qu.ntIty of cannibls was Wild and fl
— takie tot queonIn$.
• Di€ect)v. Serpent km hid bflwtoMIIUataJ’m.and toUow.d two coufl1 Ircund tar 17 ys. AL mm. time Thai
.g.ati —. WiWiffi the othw 3dm Sbdalr Wat•
iw aad ay StIh Ayars a’utad wiWi byhig to
Iim Th1fl1 tram Ivk poll. Arts ew to4 with 3
Itb it — meb000 . AueaIIm — kaL DIW Seet bker *IL b iid .t,onowfced ilbu e.mk1.e at Ut Im. Wmn( r deeth h comelded. O,tecdw Seruet hkr saâd
thee. queetloaed wi Ielv wth Melboum MUm1 prniorl, but ther wu ao ivtd• ince tO aaueet that th heroin whmdtobeedot distributed ftcm th. peñail.
lb. polke acoe kHs two NCIt Impertid dnag NtS in Melbourn. A mm w arr.st.d by PidI poUce at_Tullam.züw le Ju)y,.fleIedly fri pauMeIon of heroi, worth up to .? million. And In anothir cue, if,. p.ople ffi M.tboutn tic. dls,ge. of ha’.
cctd io Import hrohL A1taIlfltItcNbU be lm4 m de
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POLtCE THWART NEW, MELBOURNE—BASED, HEROIN RING Trial Run Stopped
Melbourne THE AGE in English 4 Sep 80 p 3 (Text
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1e1bourne Arrest Reported
Brisbane THE COURIER—KAtL in English 4 Sep 80 p 29
ITaxti Melbourne.——A man, 32, appeared in Melbourne City Court yesterday t:harged with having conspired with others to import heroin.
De.t. Sgt Thomas O’Brien, of the Federal Police, said David Joseph Vincent, of
Ease St KHda, had been charged with John Sinclair Western and Kay Stephanie
Ayers——who were being held in Bangkok.
He said the amcunt of heroin alleged to be involved was worth about $225,000 on the street.
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The alleged offence occurred between March 1 and July 6. Det. Sgt fl’lrien asked that bail be refused.
“There re a number of witnesses involved and we believe they may be interfered w1th’ ha aaid.
A sareh of Vincent’s premises dis.overed a false pasoport.”
t)et. Sgt O’Brien said heroin seized by Thai police was worth about $75,000 on thc wholes&ale market, or $225,000 on the street.
“We kn.,w that heroin was destined for Austca1ia,” he said.
tr Alex Lewenberg (for Vincent) said: “We have denied any invo1ement with the charges. Vincent is a married man who lives in Melbourne. He has assets in a ccmpany.
Mr Lewenberg said Vincent’s wife, who was in court, was prepared to be a surety for her husband’s bail.
ir .J.J. Caven, SM, aflowed Vincent bail on his own undertaking with a $10,000
surety and ordered him to report twice a week at the Customs House in Melbourne.
11 was remanded to October 23.
More Defendants Appear
McLbourne THE ACE in English 5 Sep 80 p 15
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They em Gary Swirt Cmoi. 2?, of Avon1. Rca, Aiiuile, and Lyi MarI4obi,towIka1 at the .ddi, ad Dibctah
Joy Twner. 2 OdO. Cowl, Yoi HIlL _____
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M when the flit to eourltm had bees arrwiad
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cbar$N to court
Mr Ci,i, SM, riwded teie
• Haebt*wa and Mr Caiioe to
•pe.r nt Tbu,diY and nfus. d biM. Hi .flowd Mlii Twv be’l i her own mdeeiakhig to
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UNSUCCESSFUL HEROtN tMPORTER SENTENCED TO JAIL Brisbane THE COURtER—HAIL in English 5 Sep 80 p 10
MiSTRAL LA
(‘r.xtI A man behind two unuccisfu1 attempts to import heroin into Australia was sentenced in the Criminal Court yesterday to nine years’ jail.
Mr JulUce DouliM told Mob-- en John Cipper: “t hay, no .ympahy f ou a iH. Yo i bid mm and shou4 be pun. Ished icco,Iflh17.”
Cpp.t * unpIOed
bufld*ns worr p11a4.4 gWlty on Aulult 1 to ieo ehIzgN ot hav1g coipIr*t with othen to Import hiron. He eu N- minded to yut.rdy for iin
Thi chargee arø out of two Um%eeuIra atec3ptI to im port h.rorn from aIiysta b. twim Fbruary md June uS
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Y•.t.rdiy, Mr JulUc DoiØft. aeld thai in he 1I?I venture the p’an mI.cwi.d. liii purchu money wu Icet, 1A4 no na.oUc subetac wu obtilned.
In the iecotad. th. Conplrstors obMzed whit wu atlipd t.o be hertn In i ttffl cable quanULy. BUL It Wrnid out 10 be ceteIm, 1* JuatIce DougiM said.
gr Ju&Uc• DougiM .entmiced Plul CiztheYh, 2, penel outer, w six yeiii’ jilt.
A CT1mlna* Court jury seqU L?..d CajhJt of conspiracY in r,laUon to gh Itrit venture but convtc?Ad him of consp iicy chaije izting it of
second.
Mr iuiUci Dog1u d Can- barn’s nvOnmeMin tb. mie
wim not much liii thin Cap9 IVI.
a. 4acbar.d Ri1n aribt. aa, shop iiilItan who wil. Cipp.r’i girifElind, and ewpben John Igy, . laboter.
The Jury accqutttmd Brl(ht and Irkey of hiEIng ben in hi uccnd cnipNc7.
Mr JuzUce DouIai aettinCed two n rcrvlted by Cippee em couflifi to flee par.’ Jed .ach. He ordered thaL ChriMoph.r Jobii )Iunl. i, hLrdueler, be rleeaid on a $1 good bihav’tot bond liter i. months.
H• ordced thiL Cbztstcph.i’ Mowd L4t1nfl , actor, CI1oWdN. 0 riliid In I sunllu bond iftir two ywi. Hunt and Lotinli esch plsdid guilty o.’ AurM 1 to one c.arge of hiving conspired to iLapOrt heroin.
Tb• cowl WU told tha.L Hunt wu to hive been the courter in the ftrsL rnipOrt1IOfl but decided. iven betore the purchaae mony wint mIaetn, not o go through Wfl It. Lntthgs wu the couri In the second yengure.
Hi and Cippr were det&Ind iL SrIbine Airport on June L4 tug yt on Lhilr IrTtvIl from Ma!a7$J
Skrspp.d to LoWi,as legs were plutte bip cofl1%Intfl( whiti powder, which at.r preyed to b caffeine, the court wim gold.
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I)RLJ( TKLIF SENTENCED——A man who stole addictive drugs from the home of a doctor
Iii Thornite wa yesterday sentenced to tyears’ gaol. Ne1. Alan Goodchild (21), utivmployud, of Temple Street, Victoria Park, pleaded guilty in the District Court tc breaking And entering a house with intent to commit a crime. The court wrls told that floodehild had broken into the house of Dr Chal Teng Yeap, of Sutherland 1)rtvc, wtth nn accomplice named Manners (25) who had sub8equently died in June of It $4UpCCtd drug overdose. They stole morphine, valium and pethedene from the cIocLor’ bag, and idministered the drugs to themselves. Mr B.J. Singleton, for (;ockhj1d, sntd that his client had been addicted since 16. He was facing another [2 c’ttnrges, all associated with his drug problem. Goodchild had tried about three ttfl1LM to cure himeelf of the habit. e was sentenced to two years, with a minimum of 12 months. (Text] (Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 4 Sep 80 p 19)
coNvlc’rKI) flOCTOR SUSPENDED——A doctor convicted in December of prescribing drugs to nddtctB has been suspended from medical practice for three months by the NSW t1d1ca1 I)t.sciplinary Tribunal. The tribunal also recommended that Dr Angelo Jc,4c?ph Mizzaferro, 32, of Blakehurgt, not be authorised to prescribe drugs of .iddlction under the Poisons Act for at least 12 months after his return to prac— tiec. The tribunal, chakerl by Judge Staunton, has been inquiring into a Health (:l)nI111s.toI1 complaint that in December Dr Mazzaferro was convicted of 10 of fences of prcscribing methadone to known thug addicts. Giving judgment yesterday, .Juctge Staunton 8aid the trlbLnal wanted it to be known that prescribing drugs of add[ct Lan cc known drug addicts would result in de—registratioti or at least gus— pi’nton, depending on circumstances. Judge Staunton reiterated the opinion of t:he tribunni. “of the seriousness of the drug problem in this State and of the iwsity for the medical profession to be completely scrupulous in its dealings with patients——or persons seeking the prescription of narcotic drugs of addic— tlcrn.” in this cast the tribunal had decided to he lenient in view of the age of T)r MizzaEerro, his Frankness in giving evidence and because he was attempting help the addicts who sought his assistance. The tribunal was also aware of Dr Mnzznferro’s usefulness as a doctor in the area and with the coimnunity in which ic prnctiied, Judge Staunton said. During a hearing of the case on September 8, I)r Mnzznferro told the tribunal he had modelled himself on television programs surh s Bn Casey and Doctor Kildare. [Text] [Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HER.ALI) in I ,.119h 16 Sep 8) p 101
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AUSTRALIAN DRUG SEIZURES——Australian federal police, in cooperation with state and foreign police, have acized more than U.S. $15 million worth cf illegal druKs and arrested 25 people involved in drug trafficking in the past year. The eelzures incl.uded niore than 500,000 kilos of cannabis and cannabis oil, 7.5 kiloa of heroin and almost 7 kilos of cocaine. The minister for admin— Mtrnttve erviceB, Mr McLeay, said the federal police now had 130 officers
In drug—reLated operations supported by 70 intelligence operators. [Textj
(0141.1.0132 Melbourne Ovexsens Servic. in English 1130 GM’I’ 10 Oct 80 OW]
AUSTRALIAN HASHISH SEIZURE——Customs off icer at Sydney International Airport tuive cIzed 10 kg of hashish valued at more than U.S. $100,000 on a flight 1mm Rome via Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur. Two women were charged with possessing Ihe prøhibited drug. Police said the drug was found in a secret compartment of n su(tcase. [Text] [0W210131 Melbourne Overseas Service in English 0500 GMT 20 Oct 80 OWJ
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flURMESE PAPER NOTES NATIONWIDE DRUG SUPPRESSION EFFORTS
Rangoon Domestic Service in Burmese 0140 GMT 11 Oct 80
11.1 October KYFI1ON editorial: “Preventing the Threat of Nrcotie Drugs and National Duty”]
(Text] Recently, a meeting on prevention and suppression of narcotic drugs tn Mon State was held at the people’s council conference hail in Moulmein. The mecting was attended by Mon State people’s council chairman, state judges cotiunitte chairman, state inspectorate coimnittee chairman, members of the icite d:ug suppression and prevention committee and chairmen of the township drug suppreasion and prevention cotmuittees from (?1O) townships. The meeting discussed drug suppression in each township.
Such drug suppression and prevention efforts are dicussed no only in Mon State but also in other states and divisions. The task to combat the threat of narcotic drugs should be carried out collectively by all the people of the count ry.
The Fourth meeting of the first people’s assembly passed a resolution calling for a nationwide movement to coibat as a national duty the threit of narcotic drug which can cause national atrophy. In accordance with this resolution, cperattong were launched in various states and divisions to destroy poppy :ind marthuana plantations. Accordingly, between 1974—75 and end of April 1979, a total of 32,893 acres of poppy were destroyed.
It La vital that the people actively participate under the leadership of the party, organization of the mass and class organizations and guidance of the people’s councils concerned to prevent the threat of narcotic drugs from reaching the youths.
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RANGOON POLLCF. ARREST EIGHT ON HEROIN CHARCES
Ringoon OTATAUNG in Hurmee 28 Sep 80 p 11
ITexti Rangoon, 27 Sep——Thanks to the efforts flepartmcnt and Intelligence Branch No 6, eight and chiirged under Sections 6B, 73, lOB and 14D at the Rlaing and Hing&1don townihip courte.
BURMA
of the Crime Investigation persons have b.en arrested of the Narcotics D:uga La
On 22 AuguBt, acting on a tipoff, authoritiem searched a Mazda Familiar iedNn, regietration plate Hsa/7146, and seized 345 g of herein from Kyi Nyunt, aliai Aw Aye, of No 47, Bogale market etreet in R.angoon. Police after Investigating the links in the case arrested three sore persons. Charges ware fied at illaing tovnihip court.
Four more pernons were arrested when Crine Inve.tigation Department personnel on 23 Auguit searched air paasenger Haung Ngwe Hung who was bound for Tavoy, at tflingaladon Airport and found 11.23 p of heroin. Frog the infonna— tion uppi.d by Ngve Hlaing, police also arreeted heroin seller Ngve Soe, aliae Phone Gyi, of Moulmein’s Day Pu ward and broker. Kan Hyint, aliaR mit Sa of Moulmein’e Dine-vun-kwin ward and Hya Aung of Shve Taung ward.
Ctiirgei were filed at Hingeladan township court.
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SEtZURE OF RAW OPIUM-—Banmauk, 15 Sep——At 1500 on 9 September, a narcotic drug suppression quad led by U Tin U, Sagaing division’s Banauk township pcople’s council executive coittee member, and township Police Coiandcr U Ko Ko Gyi iearched “Aung !‘tyitta” car approaching from Indaw at the entrance of 3antauk town. The search uncovered nine packets af raw opium from U Tim Maung of Banmauk, U Ala Pe of Nayakar village and car driver Ko Win Aung. Opium Aei:ed Is iorth more than 40,000 kyat and ie the largest ever Beized here. (Text) (R4ngoon IIYANMA ‘LIN in Burmese 24 Sep 80 p 61
O1’LUN SEiZURE IN INDAW--A party led by Sagaing division’s Indaw tovnhip peoplee council secretary U Kyav Hcay and township polit’e cotTlander U !4ylnt Kyi, acting on a tipoff, on 17 Septeb.r searched the compound of Ko Tin Tune residence in Wayla-gon ward and found 7.6 visA (1 viu equals 3.6 poundBj of raw opium. The houe.own.r, hi. nephew Maung Tin Hi., Khin I’Liung Th•in, Haung Aung and the hou•eowner’s wife Ha SAn San together with two men—Haung Zaw Yan and Mrnmg tn Thun Xham--vho had brought the opium to the houie were arrested. Chargee have been filed under Gection lOB of the Narcotic Drugs Law by the township police station. [TextJ (Rangoon MYANMA ALIN In Burmese 29 Sep 80 p 6 BK]
KYAIKTO POLICE SEIZE OPIUM——Acting on information, Kyaikto city police station coander U Lian Kye, together with other police personnel and people’i ccunctl member., on 21 September searched the residence of Ohn Kmote, alias Tin Sein, at Kyaikto township’s Kawhtin village and found 2 via’ (1 vise equa1 3.6 pounds] of ri opiuD. Tin Sein, together with his accomplices Thaung liaung and lila ?aung were arrested and charged under Norcotic Drugn Law. (Rangoon MYA!*4A ALIN In Burmese 28 Sep 80 p 6 3K)
RANGOON HEROIN SEIZURES——Acting on a tipoff, angoon division’s Latha townehip police force personnel on 2 October enrched the residence of Gyoh— tung, i1ias Than Zaw, in 18th Street and found hidden in a false panel on Lhe vail a penicillin bottle containing 350 kyat worth of heroin, 10 empty penicillin bott1e, a packet of heroin worth 50 kyat and 1,089 kyat obtnined from heroin Gales. Two persona found t Than Zaw’s house and five men whn had come to the house reportedly to buy heroin while the search was being conductcd were arrested cogather vich Than Zaw and charged under .,ections 613, lOB, 11 and 14D of the Narcotic Dru Law. SiiLar1y on 18 September,
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police “rregted Maung Them, ahaB Linyone, Aung Myin and Sein Kyi after 16 packet, of heroin worth 5,600 kyat were found from them during a Bearch .it ii tea ehop at the corner of Icyone Gyl Road and Shwe Taungdan Street. The three were charged under the Narcotic Drugs Law. [Rangoon LOKTHA PYEtTHU NEZIN in liurmese S Oct 80 p 7 BK)
HEROLN POSSESSERS JAILED——South OkiA1apa township court on 29 September handed dowr1 a 10—year imprisonment sentence each to Nyunt Them, alias Phyu Gyt of Ahionc, who was arrested with 2,500 kyat worth of heroin, and to U Myn Tun, 55,of Thuming1a Street, 7th ward, South Okkalapa, who wa arrested together with 5,000 kyat worth of heroin. The two were arrested on 7 December 1979 at “Them U” tea shop in South Okkalapa by Rangoon division crirne prevention divigion. [Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 31 Sep 80 p 7 BK]
HEROIN RAIDS tN MONC SAt——Southern Shan State’s Hong Nai township drug NIIppregjon prsonne1 and ward councillors on 16 September raided tF resi— thncu of Maung !i and Ma Kaki in Loi Mye ward and found from Maung Win’s house 5 packets of heroin worth 10 kyat each and from Ma Kaki’s house 6 ackecs of heroin worth 10 kyat each. The two have been cnarged under the NI1rcottc Drugs Law. [Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 3 Oct 80 p 4 BK]
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HONG KONG
DR1 RING SMASHED—-Cugtoms offIcers believe they have smashed a big Chiu Chow s’n— di caVe v)ücti imported No 3 heroin for distribution in East Kowloon following the arrast of a man and the seizure of seven kilograms of the drug. Customs officers t1rnated the retai.1 value of the drugs to be $3.2 million. Yesterday’s arrest in ChInf’, Hau Street, Hcwnantin, was the result of a month-long investigation. LTex!7 LHnn Kong SOUTH CHIW MORNI POST in English 4 Oct 80 p 77
THAI TRAF1CKER JAILED--A Thai factory worker was jailed for eight years yesterday mr pnssss&1g $360,000 of herotn for unlawful trafficking. Saeng Sae Lim (20) p1frd guilty before Mr Comisstoner de Basto in the High Court. He was caught at Kai Tak airport wtth 1,619.8 grams of a mixture containing 327.1 &rams of salts of trs of morphine on December 9 when he arrived from 3angkok. LDefense7 counsel
a friend In bangkok had given him 7,200 baht (about HK$1,750) for the trip p1ti ,OOQ baht (about HK$730) spending money and he was to get another 3,000 baht (mm a person in Hongkonp to whom he was to band over the drugs. Crown counsel RnRer Maxwell, prosecuting, said Saeng had made_three previous trips to Hongkong, ‘.ich lasting three to four days. LExcerta7 LHong Kong SOUTH CHIt4 MORNING POST in Enpjjsh 7 Oct 80 p io7
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Italians in Bangkok Jail
Milan 1.’EUROPEO in Italian 16 Sep 80 pp 24—27, 29, 30
(Article by Giovanni Forti: “My God, To Die for a Shot”)
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(Text) Bangkok——Anxious faces, sluggish faces, arrogant faces. But when we spoke of President Pertini’s tinent visit, they .11 dropped their masks. The arrogant turned suppliant, the indifferent anguished, the anxious hopeful. Is it true that he is coming for us? Will he come here to see us? If only I could return to Italy, I would take life imprisonment. Will he get us sprung? My only hope is in his. Not mine. I don’t believe In anything any more.
Voices in a Thai prison. As in Italy, there are so many f these boys; should we give them our sympathy, should they be cured? h’re they looking for easy money, naive kids who fell into a trap with no way out? Or were they dangerous vendors of death, guilty of some attempted damage, who must be treated with severity? Are Thai prisons antechambers of hell, the toughest in the world, from which we must free our compatriots at all costs? Or can we say, as a functionary of the Foreign Ministry puts it, “A prison is not a hotel, and if you want to stay out of it, don’t go to Thailand with the intention of comaitting a serious crime?”
Is it, in short, a persecution against young foreigners, conducted by the same authorities who let big—time Chinese dope traffickers prosper? Or is it the conmiendable iron fist the Westerners themselves have asked for?
In Laad Yao Prison at Bangkh.n you viii find 23 of the 32 Italians locked up in Thai jails (the biggest group after the North Americans). Since official permission to enter it vms denied us, we had to adopt a stratagem. This is a period when Thai irritation with Italians is at its peak. The semiofficial BANGKOK POST, accusing Signora Carla Pertini of racism, has advised her, a little rudely, to turn her attention to the Italian drug addicts victimized by the traffickers instead of the traffickers themselves.
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There tire three prisons on the outskirts of Bangkhen: theMedicalCorrec— tlonal. Institute, which has nothing medical about it, but where the accused nwal1in their verdict are detained; the women’s prison; and the Klong Prem Central Prison. You talk with the convicti: in the open, under a platform roof, (separated from them by] a small ditch, then more iron bars. There are benches for relatives and lawyers to sit on. It is like being En a zoo. To talk you have to shout.
Iight ttalians are awaiting their verdicts: Franco Bargiacchi, 46 years old, accused of possessing 3 kilos of the purest heroin; Mauro Biz’±, 26, (50 grams); Remo Cigala, 25, (50 grams); Domenico Genolini, 27, (‘0 gram.); t,uciano Guarino, 27, (100 grams); Arturo Pontiello, 29, (1 kilo); Fernando Turrini, 36, (50 grams); and Alfredo Verna, 27, (1 kilo).
They do not yet quite know what is in store for them. Obviously they
hope to get out the soonest possible with a few bribes planted at the propitious moment. They wear undershirts, shirts and shorts, and their beards are somewhat long. The humid heat of Thailand’s rainy season is almost unbearalbe.
Aifredo Verna’s eyes are feverish. He points to his right leg, with an ugly ulceration formed at the malleolus, caused by the heavy chain he was forced to wear around his ankle for 23 days instead of the usual 4 or 5. “I need penicillin, but there’s almost none here,” he says. “They make it hard to get medicine in. Generally, antibiotics come separated into a liquid and a powder, which you have to mix when you apply them. The wardens always open the envelopes to make sure that the powder isn’t heroin, so the antibiotics have to be thrown out.”
Vurnu was arrested on 27 July. He had been robbed of everything, he says, therefore he had no choice but to accept a “hinaman’s” offer. But the young Westerners who hang out between the Malaysia Hotel and the Blue Fox Cafe know perfectly well how they can be repatriated immediately: you go to your embassy and declare that you have lost your money and return ticket.
Cigala, Genolini and Turrini (two workers and the son of an industrialist), all three from Brescia, were arrested in May at the end of their vacation. “With the last of our money we had to buy presents for our wives,” they explain, “but instead, like asses, we vre trapped because we tried heroin. Are we dope addicts? Never! Barbera red wine is our limit...” We notify Genotini, a robust youth with a moustache, that he has become a father; his wife in Brescia has borne him a baby girl. Deeply affected and rattled, he htushes. The others hail the event and josh him. He asks us to send his wife a cable of congratulations.
“There’s no heroin going around in here,” they tell us. “If there’s any
at all, it’s in the wards of the Thai prisoners. No, nobody has pummelled
a. The hygienic conditions and the food are revolting. The rice, red rand yellow, is dirty, with a few fish heads in it. When they cook it, the
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itench Is sickening. The state gives every Thai convict 3 baht (about 25 COuCH) a day. They’re at]. skinny. One died of tuberculosis right in fr,nt of me. We have never etei’ that stuff, so to get decent food, we have to shell out all the time.”
The wardoni. earn 1,000 baht a mouth (about $83; bus fare costs 1 baht). “So, on the one hand, they see us as geese Chat lay golden eggs, to be fleeced at every turn; on the other, they look on us with envy, maybe hatred. The other day, before thy took the stove away, I was cooking a fi) Let for myself. In came old Three Stars, who commands our ward. His yea boggled. When do these guys ever see meat? So I gave him half.”
The girls live under much worse conditions than their male compatriots. ‘lt.ere are three if them: Donateila Picchezzi, 23, arrested in September 1978 at Chiang Nai (ancient capital of the north), caught with 2 kilos. With her was her husband, now shut away in Kiong Prem. They have not seen their infant boy in Italy since the child was 9 months old. Both were sentenced to 20 years, reduced to 10 because they admitted their guilt.
About to fly home to Italy, Paola Salacrist, 27, and her boy friend were nabbed at the airport in April 1979. They were found with one—tenth of a gram, far below the quantity considered “for personal use” in Italy. Enough for a single shot on the plane. They got 1 year and 8 months. When we recounted their woes to General Sharavit, second in command of Thailand’s ant idrug unit (see interview following), he burst out into an ominous laugh: “Too little. They ehould have got 3 years. Then they wouldn’t try it another time.”
The third girl is Giuliana Fargnoli, 26, picked up for possession of 300 grams and condemoed to 100 years, but her *ientence was reduced to 50 years because she confessed, then reduced again to 25 years. An ex—hairdresser, Giuliana is the only one who is not addicted. “I was promised 6 millions,” she said, as if that explained everything. Both Paola Salacrist and Donatella Picchezzi were in pitiable condition, down to skin and bone and both in a state of mental confusion, when the police arrested them. “)y husband and [ had been taking it for years and years,” Picchezzi said. “The stuff in Italy was becoming more and more poisonous, we had less and less money, and life was getting fouler and fouler. t’m not one to steal. With this Thai business, we hoped to set ourselves up, to get money and the stuff For us, really pure. Instead. . . During the first months in Chiang Mai prison, you could get it, but then 1 day the warden wasn’t around so there wasn’t any, and we were all in bad shape. Then they transferred us to Bangkok. Nothing gets into the women’s prison here. The people who run it arc terrible. They haven’t given me a valium even, and I have pains all over my body. Now ... I don’t know ... I’d like to kick the habit when I get out——for my son’s sake, too. But 1 haven’t detoxicated myself willingly, you can’t say that.”
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Dønnteila is a s!rawny littic creature, with btg, sad eyes iind a nose that dom1nntL her sharp facial features. All three girls wear clean, neat’y Ironed sh1.rte, and their hair is washed. Yet they are allowed only one shower r. week, whereas the boys shower every day. This Is not the only difftrnce, nor the most serious one.
Tht’ youth4 in the CQntrnl Prison live in an a1i—Wetern ward. Those 1.n some ealis have managed to buy a TV set. They !ave a football field, where they spend almost the entire day (ani must stay there even when it ritins). Almout all of them ork only about 15 minutes a day cleaning up. They ‘ny smo.x. They ray play chess (not cards). The may receive 1ettrs Ln Italian. When they are assigned ‘classe&’ (or grades, important for nrnnLsty), they will get a high score simply by not doing anything bad.
Hut the girls are not even perm1ttec to stay together. Picchezzi and Srintacrit occupy different cells, each with only Thai women for ceilniates, find 1eep on wooden boards. While the boys generally have space, the thc women’s dormitories are jampacked. “In this heat all night long, if you turn over, you dig your elbow into your neighbor. And my neighbor Iii leprosy. Dry leprosy, it’s not contagious. After we get out, we’ll tw sleeping for months with our knees up and hands over our faces. Some— i[mc newborn pink mice fail on us. The Thai women roast the big rats. Most or them are poor. They’re in for crimes of passion; they’ve murdered their husband’s ‘little wife’ or castrated him. Or else they’re prostitutes who’v also done a little drug pushing. But the big—time Chinesa peddlers, thoHe women get out in a few days.”
Discipline in the wonien’s prison is extremely strict. You have to salute tht female wardens with respect. It is rigorously forbidden to smoke (but the girls constantly sniff a medicine permitted by the authorities, i sort of Vick’s Vaporub against colds). Cards, cheBs and games in general are prohibited. To get a good “class,” a woman must learn the prison regu— tittons by heart in the Thai language. For an excellent grade, she must rnemorie the rice song, the King’s song and the prayers. Thus, partly to get good classes and partly to talk with the native inmates, the girls now mumble a little Thai. Many of the men do not know English, therefore to talk with their lawyers, they need help from e’nbassy officers.
The girls must know English because they are allowed to receive correspondence only in that language; the censor has no woman translator from Italian into Thii. The women are required to work hard. Giuliana Fargnoli helps in the kitchen, commanded by a German prisoner of a certain age. This woman, with powerful btceps, speaks perfect Thai and enjoys a number of privileges. In exchange, she act8 as “warden of the foreign women,” as she herself pecit led in her plea to the sovereign for a pardon. Fargnoli sleeps with her, and the German allows her to cook Italian food for hr friends.
The other two make little schoolchildren’s aprons, which are sold in Italy. “l:1ve you eve: brought an apron at Standa on the Corso Venezia in Milan?
• we make them all.”
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“An American girl was whipped,” Giuliana
IIaiy nHk to rucelve 1etter in En]iih and books in Italian. Paoia SalacriHt, wtth u nieditative expression, a.ks for texts on Buddhiatn-—”Evon though,’ shu sLgh, “it’s hard to concentrate on literature. The Thai women are Liliterate. In the evening, their only pastime, except for delousing each other, is chatting. There’s never a moment of silence. Perhaps what I m1B1 nEst, maze than cigarettee, is solitude.”
We convQrse with the girls face to face, but 8eparated froni them by a light grill.. Back at the q..entral Prison, we are again in a zoo; there are so mnny people that we ae obliged to shout. A Thai women shows her infant bLy to an American man. The Italian8 are: Rinaldo 8arberi, 22, condemned to 20 monthe for one—tenth of a gram of heroin; Giuseppe Castrogiovanni, 27, 1)0 grams (life imprisonment); Sergio Caprini, 27, 400 grams (12 year.); Luctano Circi, 26 400 grams (6 years); Marco Aniello, 32, 4 kilos (20 years); Antonio Raiano, 21, 2.7 kilos (12 1/2 years); Claudio Roveri, 29, 700 grams (10 years); Stefano Venturi, 27, 100 grams (3 years); Pietro Canali, 28, 2 kilos (10 year8); Elio Fattovich, 26, 40 grams (3 years); Stefano Palucci, 25, 2 kIlos (5 years); and Vito Natuzzi, 33, 500 grams (25 years).
There is no proportionate connection between the quantity of substance found and the severity of the sentence, priioarily because the penalty ii siiitomattcally reduced by half if the accused confesses his guilt (“Real bJ.ackmail,” the young men call it). The penaltieB have stiffened since a now law was promulgated in 1979, and many of the young convicts were rres4ted after the law went into effect. !reover, the judgeB enjoy a high degree of individual discretion (and corruptibility, the Italians ndd).
1tuatLons differ among the 12 who have been definitely sentenced. There Is the big—time trafficker, who is not an addict himself. There is the dope pusher, who thought he could make easy dough. There is the guileless type, who wanted pure heroin so that he would not risk his skin in Italy every time hc punctured it, who confu8ed Thailand with paradise. Thai heroin Is actually 95 percent pure. It costs 12,000 lire (about $16) a gram. Cut into small pieces, in Italy it can bring In 1.5 millIon lire (hout $1,800]. Thus, 3 single gram will pay for the trip. Apart from that, the rest Is all gravy. Unfortunately, Thailand is no paradise. Toyland does not exist. Anyone will supply you with “snow”——taxi drivers, mnseues, hotel porters, small boys——but all of them are in league with the police. Hardly back in his hotel, the imprudent tourist who has bcughc 10 grams for a few hundred baht will see his room invaded by police agentH. The have him. Usually with a suitable bribe (often all the money In his wallet) he will avoid arrest. Now all he can do is thank Buddha for his narrow escape, and go to his embassy to get himself repairiated. The heroin is then returned to the peddler, ready for the next prey.
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flid these young Italians not know abozt this diabolical mechaniErn? Perhaps tlwy thought they were the slyest of the sly. E’ren now, one of them behind lnr Qxc1atm, “Imagine if I had got away with itt” Most of then, however, Iiav 1.earne’d. Many have gone on taking hotB for some time in prison, but tiw majority now Mwear that they are off the atuff for good. “I was 19 yenr old, and I admit it: I was an kreeponsible idiot. It’’i not enough to esy I was hooked,” said Atitionio Raiano. “Today I’m 21. Exactly 1. year ago, my brother came to see me. He was wearing my father’8 wriet watch. What about papa? 1 a8kod him. Died of a heart attack. Practically a broken heart. What I’ve suffered has matured me.”
“let’s come clean, “ Claudia Roveri breaks in. “Many of the guys don’t 4hoot it up any more, not because they’ve repented or anything like that, but because the stuff here in jail now costs as much as it does in Italy. And all our money goes for food.” Arrested in November 1974, Roveri, from Modena, is a [prieonj veteran. He saw his friend Critiano Zanoli die at hts side. “Officially from septicemia. But I saw him when he came out of the ‘dark room’ where they give you the works, with his face all swollen. Once I was thrown into the ‘dark room’ too. They beat me up until the blood came, and kept me there for 1 month. Many years ago. That won’t happen to me again.”
Toward the end of our conversation, Giuseppe Ca8trogiovanni joins u. He has to be carried from the infirmary, to which he was admitted only aftQr long irni8tence by the einbasay. He is suffering from a chronic form of diabetes, which ha left him 67 percent invalided. “I’m depressed in the infirmary,” he says, “because I don’t have so much as a dog to talk to all day long. But at least I sleep in a bed instead of on a bench.”
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Linterview with General Sharavit Yodnw.ni, deputy chief of the Thai Narcotic Control Board, by Giovanni Forti: “Don’t Weep for Dope Peddlers”——date and place of interview not given]
ITexti “I don’t think the Western countrieB are very prudent in much fuss over the prisoners. First of all, look at your laws. the Netherlands encourages traffickers. You’re part of the game, as guilty as the countries that produce drugs. You have asked us againet drugs. We’ve begun doing that, so now you can’t complain consequences.”
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General Shavaric Yodmani, 46, second in command of the Thai Narcotic Control koard, mi1es often, like all Thai people, crosses his small hands and small feet, then pronounces such harsh statements as we are no longer accustomed to hear in the West. He is one of the fevriot tainted by corruption, he explained, because he is very rich himself. Since he haB been on the job, aome things have begun to turn around.
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IQuestioni Don’t you think that prison i useless for drug addicts?
IAngwerl I nm policeman and I have my point of view. Drug addicts cannot be treated like tuberculars. Perhaps not prison exactly, but anyway, centers they cannot leave. Where they get rough military training—-and work, a lot of work. Because their problem 1. that they’re lazy.
LQue’tion1 And do you think you can eliminate drugs that way?
[AnMwerj Certainly not. We must get used to the idea that drugu will be with us for hundreds of years. But we must also be aware of the dangers, we tnut be alert to them.
[Question] But if the wardens supply heroin in the prisons and the police w,e traffickers as informers?
[Answerj We have asked for names from the Weatern embassies that have reported such cases to us, but they haven’t given US any. However, I admit that there are cases of corruption; neverthe1es, the police are right to look for infornation. It is through this method that we make arreHte and prevent part of the poison from being shipped to your country. t don’t understand why you defend the culprits.
[Question] Thai laws are too harsh by conparison with ours.
[Arn4wer] Not at all. We have simply adopted standards. Over 20 grams, no longer a matter of private consution, it’s peddling. Over 100
grima the penalty can be life imprisonment or the firing squad. Until now we have only shot Aians——a1though we wouldn’t want to be considered rac1t..
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NAKHON PHANOM GOVERNOR DISCUSSES MAR IHUANA CONNOL
Bangkok DAO SLAN in Thai 2 Sep 80 pp 6, 10
[“Pha Chiwit’ coluwn by “Mosquito”, “The Life of Mr Somphon Klinphongsa, the Governor of ‘Marihuna’ Province”] LExcerpts] After having opened the window of “Nakhon Phanoin” and boded across the Mekong River into Laos with the “Iron Bones” governor, Mr Somphon Klinphongaa, for a full day, today we viii take a look inside Nakhon Phanom.
“Besides suppressing the tezroriets, there is another important task that I have carried on and for which General Serm Na Nakhon, the deputy prime minister, awarded me a certificate of honor in his capacity as the 1979 chairman of the Narcotics Control Board.
“Yes. The york that I carried on jointly with members of my circle and for which I received a certificate of honor was cbntrollirig narcotics, esp.cially marihuana • I received this certificate at the end of April but I did not go and receive it peraonally because the airplane [I was riding in] craihed.
“Concerning the real reason why I wa taking an airplane to Bangkok, an airplane that crashed that day, I was on y way to attend a conference concerning the border problem and to receive a certificate of honor for my narcotic. control activities • But the final result was that 1 did not do anything.
“In controlling marihuana, I have used three plans. The first plan was to have district officials go and destroy the crops. We had to make people understand that marthuarza is grown mostly in restricted areas in the forests where there are etres and vher the land is unowned • We destroyed the mar ihuana but were unable to make any arrests. As for the second plan, special district control officials stationed throughout the district made arrests on occasion. In the third plan, provincial off iciala recr*itd border patrol police and river patrol police and used helocoptera in a major suppression campaign and good results were achieved.”
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after talking with the provincial governor, I talked with Police Officer Chomchan Chaiphum. I was introduced to Mr Chomchan, a police officer, by t)e “iron bones” governor. It was then that I learned that he is a policeman wlr is very good at seizing marihuana. The statistics show that he has made at least 20 marihuana busts each month. He told me about the probleus that he has encountered.
“It is verydifficuitto suppress marihuaria because most areas of Nakhon Phanom have many escape routes and our vehicles are not as new as those used to transport the marihuana. That is, our vehicles are not suited for such work.
“We have received very little cooperation from the villagera. I think that we should equip our men with small radio so that when vehicles carrying marihuana leave the vi11age, we can contact othexs immediately and give thun definite information about the color of the vehicle and the license number.
“Some times we )cov that a vehicle is carrying marihuana but we cannot tell, which vehicle it is. If we search vehicles that are riot
-rrying marthuana, I can be taken to court for this.
“Irs my opinio8, we should be equipped with vehicles suited to the wo and we should have radios for sendinç informiition to other units. Also, if possible, our men should be given bonuses for each bag [of marihuana]. If this is done, they vi1. ave more entht!3iaam for their work.’
That same day, I had a chance to travel to Tha ‘then District in order to vi3it Mr Virot ar Mr Krailat, the joL’nt deputy district off icerB. When I arrived, I was varn1y velcomed by both deputy district officers. That is, they burned marihuana that had been seized along the Mekong River. The amoke covered the entire district and acme female officials of the district choked ana become intoxicated frce the marihuana smoke.
Deputy district officer Virot told mes
“The Marihuana we burned today weighed 1,800 ki1ogras and there is this much almost every time. Wh&z we make a bust, we burn the marihuana but it is never the last. I keep wondering when the supply of marihuana viii. be exhausted!
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ANT1NARCflTTC CURRICuLuM TO TARGETED IN SCHOOLS
Bangkok SIAH RAT in Thai 4 Sep 80 p 5
[Article by Soimvai Wongwitthayakun. “Narcotics Control In the choo1s -- a Peal Effort Or Just Play?”]
[Text] The deputy undersecretary of th Miniltry of Education1 who ie the head of the Ministry of Education’s dangerous drugs control program, told the newspaper that the ministry has i.p1td the dangerous drug. control program for the approxiRat•I.y 9 million stu4its in tl schools. The four elements ar•e
1. To Eitipulate a curriculiun to increase all students’ knovladg, about narcotics.
2. To analyze the drug control curriculum for the teachers so that te8ultS are achieved.
3’ To do research on the various-level studnta who are addicted to drs, both at private ax public schools, in acrd with the 3-year program.
4 • To have the teachers suggest ways to monitor tt •tents, both vhtie they are still in school and after they graduat..
This is cOnBidered to be another program that bodes well for the country. Its aim is to ensure that the people in the cowitry have good physical and mental health so thy can be the forces in adainistering and deve1opng the cotmtry so that the coimtry makes proqr.i in the future.
Because at present, each day, more and more youthi in t) country, both in Bangkok and in t provinces, r. b.coing Slaves to drugs, inc1ding heroin, alcohol, cigarettes and thinner. This is not a matter that adults can afford to ignore.
The . i stry of Education’s drug control program in the sc)o1a, which i5 a good program, should be of great benefit to the youth.. and the country.
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flut looking c1ouely at tiw program, it can be seen that the program ja, for the most part, a long-trm program that puti the emphasis on developing good habits and pref•rnces among the youtha so that they do not make a mistake conc.rninq drugs. Thus, it viii take one or several years to d.v.lop such good habits and preferences.
It iii thm feared that tha program will not be lucceasful [in halting] the rapid ipread of drugs among the students.
The youth drug problem is a pressing problem that adults must help eac)’i other solve in a ierioua and resolute mariner. They cannot be paasiv. or inactive, oth.rvia., the attractive druq control programs that have been established viii not be able to achi.ve any results.
I don’t )aw hav much of this program of the Ministry of Education )iae been imp1eiiented. how erio1y it has been carried on or if t reu1tz have befo11oved and evaluated.
But if ye observ the present state of affairs of the students in society, it can be stated that this program haa not achieved the desired results sinc. the druq prob1 in the schools is still spreading throughout Bangkok and t) provinc.a.
The canmittse responsible for i1ementing the program should review the program, serioualy foflov az evaluate the results and Belect programs who.e riults can be seen, such as tI program of “having the teachers suggest ways to monitor tte students both while they are in school and after they have graduated.” Such progra should be imp1nented resolutely and people should help each other look after thinge r.a12.y closely.
People should not just carry out their duties in a half-hearted or paaiive vay. They should find a way to coordinate thinqs vith the parents in order to control and solve the immediate prob1i that is becoming worie arx1 to keep it from spreading even further.
If we Just wait or results from the long-term programs only, it viii be like the sayings “Before the peanuts are done, the sesame viii be burnod.”
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MAR IHUANA SEIZED IN BANGKOK WAREHOUSE
Bangkok BAN I4UANG in Thai 6 Sep 80 pp 1, 16
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[Articlei “Harihuana Valued At 500 Million Baht Seizqd In the Middle of Bangkok”]
[Text] A drug sales point in t) middle of Bangkok ha. beei destroyed. The criminals used an old var•hous• on th ier Highway that students had once usid to meet and plan the diaord.rs of 14 Octob.r • The police tried to arrest th but th criminals fld ah.ad of time, leaving behind marihuana valued at 500 million baht.
At 2300 hours on 5 September, Police Li•utanant Colon•1 Pricha Ruchirabat the chief inspector at the Stthisan Polic Station, Police Lieutenant Colonel Sansoen Senivong Na Ayuthaya, an inspector, Police Lieutenant Colonel Surin Si*arat, an insp.ctor, anã a group of officialB led a force to insp.ct an old two-story building. occupying approximately 2 rai of land, on Wiphaodi Road in Latyao Cowie, Bangkhen District. They had l•arnd that a narcotics gang was using this building to hide narcotics in befor• sending the drugi abroad. It turned out that vh•n the officials arrived, the people guarding t drugi all flid, leaving behind only lighted sticks of mosijaito repellant.
The officials conducted a s•arch and found sacks of marihuana stacked together. When th.y took the sacka out, th.y found that th.r. were 28 sa. ei ghing a total of 450 kilograaa and valued at 10 million baht in th country (or 500 million baht aboad). E..ides this, the officials also found that th. electric lights in the building had riot beeiused; rRther, the pople had u,d candi... Concerning this building, it is not known who tb miner is. Hovvw, on th tragic day of 14 Octob.r [1973], a group of std•nts usd this building to hold a meeting and make plans • At presnt, th officials have tur,ied all the evidence over to Police Lieutenant Thiraphong Thaasu’an, the officer on duty, for afeguardiriq in order to sek the “ovners” and ‘-ontinue the case.
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BRIEFS
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HONG KONG HEROIN tRAFFICKER--At 1825 hours on 11 September at the Bangkok airport passenger inspection room, cuatoes off icials noticed a man acting suspiciously and so thy asked him to submit to a search. this man was wearing a sports shirt and coat. Th. officials searched him and fowd a package wrapped in newspaper hidden around his stomach. When they opened ttw package, they fowd thres plastic bag. of No 3 heroin weighing 1.3 kilograms and valued at 100,000 baht in the country. If sold abroad,the heroin would have been worth 10 million baht. He was placed under arrest for further investigation. From the investigation it was learned that the man was Mr Linching Chung, age 46, a resident of Hong Kong. He confessed that he had come to Thailand and transported heroin abroad twice before • This was his third trip. He had arrived rn 7 september. He was returning to Hong Kong on Cathy Pacific f Light No C.S. 702 but was arrested as r.port.d above. [Text] [Bangkok BAN NUANG in Thai 12 Sep 80 pp 1, 2] 11943
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CONFERENCE AGAINST DRUG SHEJGC’dING HELD
AU271451 Sofia 8Th in English 1337 GW1’ 27 Oct 80
BULGARIA
(Text Varna, Oct 27 (rrA)——3ulpri.a is in the 1eadin po.itioi and is making her great contrtbucion to combating druç s.g1ini—thi. vas the u.•sint made at th. second inter— national cont.rance op.n.d hire today. It ii on coope?ation in ccmbatin drui .nugglinR. Th. preunc. of d•1.çat.• and obe.rvars of Austria, A1.ria, 3agii, 8ulgaria, Canada, Czichoeovakia, Derark, the FIG, Finland, Frc., the GDR, Great Iritain, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Liol, Ntria, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rc.mnia, Spain, Swd.n, Switzerland, Thailand, the USA and th. Sovtet Union, ae well ma of pro.in.nt UN and World Customs Council Union figure., ensur.s the if fici.nt coordination of the actioni of the adininistra— tton of th. drug—producing countri•s, of countries situated on th. traffic tin, and of th. uuntrtis of deitination of the drug•.
Op.nLn the cofer.nce, Finance ?Iinist•r 3elcho klchev ephaai2.d that, in line with the epiric of Helsinki, two years ao in Vara the beginning vu laid of the cooperatioi ong atat.s in the etrug*1. to save unkind frog drug—addiction. At th. second conference pro.inenc •p.ctalists raid to di.cussion th. ptob1.s of drui production, trafficking md un lullaria being on an i2portant crouroad between the East and the West, is actively invoLved in international cooperation and assias in cutting off the dru—.muggiinR treffic.
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was delivered by Dr (George Ling), head of the drug depart.ent with the United He stated that th. United Nations Oran.isation and its SIcr.taTy General Kurt
ar tatireited in the activity and outcose of the Varna conference.
On behaLf of hi. government, the US Aabassador to aulgaria Jack R. Perry expressed gr4titud to Bulgaria and pointed out chat there was close cooperation between the USA dnd u1garia In the field of contro11in the drug trafficking and this cooperation would continue Ln the future.
Deputy secretary general of tti’ World Customs Union——the ounciI for cusom* cooperation a.ted Ln 8ru.ieli, lir James C1awon, also spoke at the conference.
The conf.ren’:e wilL continue five jays.
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StL’S ZUAZO SAYS COUP RELATED TO DRUG TRAFFICKING
Santo Domingo EL CARIBE in Spanish 1 (kt 80 p 10
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[Text] New York, 30 Sep-—Herrian Sues Zuazo, former president of Bolivia, today described Gen Luis Garcia Meza’s takeover last July as “the first coup detat caused by drug trafficking.”
Sues Zuazo, head of the Democratic and Popular Unity. which n 37 percent of the popular vote in the 29 June elections, had the chance to become president of Bolivia on 4 August. He made this coarnent during a press conference sponsored by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs.
The former Bolivian president denounced “the participation of Argentine military advisers in planning the conspiracy” and said that. “we have received reports that those advisers also participated in interrogations and, unfortunately, torture.”
SUes Zuazo indicated that Bolivian expàrts total about $650 million annually while drug traffic incne is estimated at $700 to $800 million a year.
±! that, during ef •aninistration of President !.itiia Gueiler who was overtrown by Garcia Meza, “the Ministry of Interior had investigated drug traffic in order to start legal procedures.” It “revealed many of the connections beten the drug traffic and the military who took over •“
He cited the present ministeL of interior, Col Luis Arce, as an example. He “owns the main tranoportation enterprise that transports narcotics; this is important since the transportation of narcotics brings in as much incoa e as drug production.”
He added that “as a precaution, Arce announced the death penalty for drug traffickers and subversives. However, that only insures the continuation of the repressive system.”
Sues Zuazo read parts of a document written last August by the Bolivian
Episcopal Conference, citing the cases of Father Julio Turniri, head of the
Htnan Rights Assembly, and Father Juan Envis, a Jesuit, director of the
“Faith and Joy” movement and a member of the Human Rights Assembly.
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According to the document, Father Tuzniri, 69 years old, wrote his testimony on toilet paper while he was in jail. According to that. document and the toslimony of other prisoners, Father Tuiniri was “horribly tortured.”
Fat,hr Erivis, who went to the authorities to inquire about the whereabouts of other Jesuits, was also arrested and tortured, according to the document.
A letter accompanied Ihe document. It was from “the mothers in the town of Car;co1e&’ some 100 kilometers south of La Paz. They denounced “looting, rapos, mass arrests and other atrocities committed by the armed forces.”
The lortner president said that “the Bolivian people are fighting against the monopoly of the comunications media and weapons by rk slowdowns and civil disobedience.”
Sues Zuazo predicted that, before the end of the year, “that movement will have created total isolation and internal dissent within the armed forces, opening the way for a return to democracy.”
Meanwhile, it was reported from La Paz that the Permanent Bolivian Episcopal Council was convoked for an urgent meeting to analyze the deterioration rf relations between the Catholic Church arid the military government.
The secretary general of the episcopal conference, Monsigrior Alejandro Mes— t.re, did riot set a date but church sources thought the meeting u1d be held this week.
The sources said that the government has not complied with a’eenients with the church hierarchy concerning the arrest of priests, raids of religious orders and aid to political prisoners.
The meeting would study the case of Father Alvaro Puente, study prefect at the main Jesuit school in this city, who was arrested on Friday by a group of civilians and exiled to Buenos Aires over the weekend, according to Jesuit superiors in Bolivia.
Victor Blajot, superior of the Jesuit order, and Vicente Beneyto, rector of San Calixto School, stated that Father Alvaro Puente’s arrest “violates the verbal agreement between church authorities and the military that rio priest, monk or sister can be arrested without an agreement between both authorities.”
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iNTERiOR MINiSTER’S DRUG CONNECTIONS WITH MILITARY CIT Sao Paulo VFJA in Portuguese 8 Oct 80 p 72 [Article by Lutz Claudio Cunha: “The Minister of Cocaine’1
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ITexti La Paz--During the first week of July this year, a two-engine Piper-Azteca aircraft exploded over a village 14 kilometers from La Paz and killed its three passengers. Near the bodies, Bolivian police found several suitcases containing $2 million in $50 and $100 bills. Intrigued, they were exaznining the baggage when a hellropter landed amidst the wreckage and the owner of the air-taxi company that owned the Piper aircraft stepped out: it was Co]. Luis Arce Gomez, then chief of the Army Intelligence Service (SIE). Re brusquely tore up the report the police were writing, ozdering them to return to La Paz and maintain absolute silence about the episode.
This year alone, three of Arce’s aircraft were destroyed in tragedies that have never beeii explained--in Bolivia, affairs of the colonel, mirliBter of the interior since thc takeover by Gen Luis Garcia Meza, are not -subject to investigation by the police. “El Loco” as he is catted by his barracks comrades, or “Arcesino” to his countless enemies, Col Lute Arce Gomez, 42, is a veteran lawbreaker. In the Rene Barrientos government, while still a captain, he was implicated in smuggling leather and cigarettea into Paraguay. As he acquired more gold braid, he was also rising through the ranks of contraband traffic. Today, Arce lB the brains of the military mcii involved in the biltiori-dollat cocaine trade.
Arcc girlfriend, Rosario Poggi de Quesada, an attractive brunette of 37 who smuggled narcoticB between Spain and Bolivia during the 1970’s, is, officially, the secretary general of the Interior Ministry and, unofficially, second in coimnand of the colonel’s clandestine empire. Norberto “Bubby” Salomon, air-force colonel and Arce’s partner in air-transport cotupanies, is also accumulating positions in the government and in the illegal organization headed by the interior mini8ter. After the uccessfu1 coup led by Garcia Meza, Bubby Salomon was rewarded with the post of military attache in Caracas. In May, one of Salomon’s aircraft had crashed at the Bent airport with 320 kilograms of cocaine aboard.
In Holivia, a colonel’s pay is equivalent to about $800. But Salomon owns three farms and three rented homes in La Paz.A8 have most of the military officers who conduct the drug trade, Saloznon has served in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, center of cocaine traffic in Bolivia. From Santa Cruz come rebel generals headed for La Paz snd cocaine bound for the rest of the world.
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Night Landings
Last 1unu, at a meeting with Santa Cruz: cocaine magnates, Gen Hugo Echeverria, coinrnrindnnt of the II Army Corps based in that city, was given a donation of $2.7 militon to overthrow the government and drive out the specter of traffic repression. Echevarria promised Garcia Meza he would raise the $3 billion needed to pay off the nation’s foreign debt with a groups of friends--”My friends from Montero” according totheganeral. Hontero, 45 kilometers from Santa Cruz, is virtually the first freet.raclc zone for cocaine on To1ivian territory.
Ontnide of T3olivia, friends of Arce are always subject to unexpected happenings. A1.fredo “Cucuchi” Guticrrez, owner of a landing strip at kilometer 7 on the Santa Cruz-Cochabumba highway surrounded by high walls and equipped with searchlights perfect for night 1andings was arrested in Miami during May of last year piloting an tiircraft loaded with cocaine. He wasn’t in jail more than 24 hours--but the case alerted Colonel Arce to the special precautions that must be taken in Miami, the main point of entry for drugs in the United States.
At the present time, Bolivia has six consuls in Miami--one of them is Arce’s father. All of them were chosen personally by the interior minister, who is afraid of diplomatic tipups but seems convinced that he is not exposed to unforeseen economic reprisals from the U.S. government.
Atarceent party given by friends in La Paz) Colonel Arce quite enthusiastically summed up the figures on ich his confidence is based. “Tin represents $400 million a ycai, but cocaine brings in $1.2 billion,” the interior minister explained. “If the Americans cut off their aid, it won’t be my fault if the United States i flooded with cocaine.”
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GOVERNMENT AflEMPTS TO REDUCE COCA PRODUCTION
President Appeals to Farmers
La PMZ PRESENCIA in Spanish 21 Sep 80 pp 1, 12
Cochabamba, 20 Sep—-The president of the military junta, Gen uis Garcia
BOLIVIA
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?lcza, said: “We have to replace coca production with other products o that it will not be said of us that we are a nation of cocaine addict..” Garcia Meza added that to ochieve this the National Reconstruction Goverrnnent will take “drastic and harsh
measures toward living with dignity and so that we will not be accused of poisoning the Bolivian people with cocaine.’
He caid that for 20 years the politicians did not do anything, “because Instead of working for their homeland they worked to line their own pockets, by taking moncy abroad to live like pashas.”
Garcia Heza announced that to organize peasant cooperatives he has delivered five tractorB so that the Seventh Division Coand can distribute them to rural centers.
He said he will immediately enact a decree through which all the production of Chapare will be centralized In Sacaba. He added that the Tutumayu and Warawara dams will, be buflt but that the peasants have to demand the achievement of tbeae projects from the district authoritiee, since the latter are ready to work. If they were not, they would be “replaced.”
Peasant Demonstration
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The chief executive made these statements at a peasant rally that took place this afttrnoon in the main square of Sacaba, Chapare Province. Garcia Meza was welcnnwd by schoo1chii.dren, peasants and general public.
Various ministers of state and military chief s, as veil as district and provincial authorities, attended.
President Garcia yesterday visited the district prefect, Lt Col Javier Pammo Rodriquez at Setton Hospital where the latter underwent delicate surgery. This morning, before going to Sacaba, Garcia Neza was in the Magy restaurant and at— tended the national horse show.
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Tomorrow he will be in Cliza where his wife, the first lady of Bolivia, will he named “favorite daughter” of Cliza, where a new anniversary is being celebrated. In the afternoon Garcia Meza will, fly by helicopter to Morochata and Caichani, some 200 km from the capital.
T1I(’ venti; [n Sacaba began with the welcoming address of Mayor Fidel Via. Then there were i;pecche by the president of the civic committee, Carlos Angulo, nnd agrarian leaders Tomas Quiroga of El Morro Peasants Union and Leoncio Torrido, departmental executive of the farmers. They all expressed their support for the Nnttona.l Reconstruction Government and offered to fight against extremism. They itked that Heveral projects be carried out, such as dams and the centralization of products from chapare in Sacaba.
The President Speaks
The Chief of State made the following address: “As we have been doing since the military-peasant pact was again brought up to date, today we are again seeing this massive spontaneous demonstration by our brother peasants and the people of the town of Sacaba, as a show of support by all of you for the National Reconstruct ton Government.
“We have often thought——and when we go through the various towns in Bolivia, we ve that we have not progressed at all——we continue as we were 20 years ago, and we also wonder what the political parties did, what the politicians have done for Bolivia, what the politicians have done for their peasant brothers, what they have done for the workers and the miners. All they have done is make the people not have faith in anything. All they have done is make the Bolivian people’s back— wardne.as continue, Now the new National Reconstruction Government, with a new gcnernt ion and new men believes that we cannot deceive the Bolivian people, and we cannot end up promising that which we are not going to do. We have come, and for a long time we have been carrying out a dialog with our peasant brothers, with the worker and with the miner, to find out their needs. We are coming to realize that we need everything, because we do not have anything; because instead of worklug for their homeland, many rogues who are deceiving the Bolivian people have started to work to line their own pockets. And that they have not even left in Bolivia all, the resources that they have put into their pockets. Rather they have taken thcm abroad to live like pashas, while we, the Bolivians who love our land, are living under the same conditions and thinking about how to repair our nation. We are thnking about how we are going to straighten out the economic problem.
“Nevertheless, during these 3 years, the politicians, through constant and continual elections, have emptied the national treasury. They have used the money of the poor and of the children, leaving them without food and without bread, to pursue their election campaign, to deceive their peasant brothers. There was a Genaro Flores who was selling our peasant brothers to an extremist party, to a party tbnt. does not love Bolivia, to a party that was also selling Bolivia to certain foreir powers. Peasant Brother, for this reason we are here to speak with you in plain Spanish, so that we all understand one another, and let us speak the same lnngugc. and not talk promises. We do not come with promises. We come to find out your needs, because the Armed Forces are going to work alongside all of you.
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“Peiirnnt brothers, what this National Reconstruction Government asks is that once w HtIrt tn work, our nation needs the efforts of all it. children. The government Is starting to distribute the necessary tractors so that our peasant brothers will forni cooperatives. For Sacaba we have brought five tractors that we are going to deliver to the commander of the Seventh Divieion for the cooperatives to be organized, and then the tractors will, be handed over to them.
“A tthort time ago, the president of the e’:ic cotunittee asked US for a decree to ‘entraiize all of chapare’s production in Sacaba. We are going to order the d’cri’c but since the govcrnment is giving them what they need, they also have o upport this government, not with political consciousness but with nationalistic (onflcIouI;nes1. We have to change the face of Bolivia, peasant brothers, and you, who arc near Chapare, must replace coca with othe things, o that it viii not be n1d of us that we are a nation of cocaine addicts. To this d the government iii going to take harsh and drastic measures because it is better for all of us HolivianB to live with dignity and not be accueed of poisoning the Bolivian people with cocaine. You must Improve your thinking, so that you make suggestions to plant a better product than coca.”
Finally, Garcia Neza announced that construction is underway on the Tutimayu and W4Ira Wara dams [as published]. Re said that the peasants must demand these projects from the local authorities “so that they will fulfill what the President In niwaking about. If not, the authorities will be replaced.”
GRrcilI Meza added that the government has raised the flags of Villarroel, Busch and fiarrcntos1 through which action “we have now called upon all the nationalist
He declared, “We are forgiving those who hold foreign or mistaken policies1 be— enuse we are all Bolivians, and I believe that it is necessary for UB to examine our conscience and live first as Bolivians. Let us work for our hoine].and, for our household and for the conmiunity that you represent.”
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[Editorial: “Coca Growing”]
[Text] The problem of cocaine manufacturing in our country is at least 25 years old, and it has not been met with sufficiently effective measures. We cannot say that nothing has been done, but preventive and pumitive measures have not substan— tl:illy decreased manufacturing and trafficking in cocaine. Moreover, the tremendous profits obtained from this illegal trade have attracted more and more persons—— Including peasants—— with the result that the authorities’ struggle is increasingly difficult, despite all the willingness they may devote to this effort.
The itiat Ion !ias led to the President of the Republic himself, in a recent visit to Chapare, stating to the peasants the need to eliminate coca growing and replace it with other products that will not bring the same results. Thus, he touched upon one of the so1ution that can be effective, as similar ones taken in other countries have demonstrated.
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We inust tmphaaIze the harm that Bolivia has suffered up to now because of the narcoticl4 traffickers’ activities. Above all, the country’s good name is at stake. For nuiiiy ycnrs we have had the unfortunate reputation of being one of the big mippilcrs of cocaine for the whole world. But this is not all the damage. G.”en the nw of obtaining the narcotic, Bolivian drug addicts have already become evithiit, ipcciaIty among youth. In the face of this dangerous fact we will hAve to rict forefu11y, because this problem touches a sector of the population es— jvc’iti1ly cIcrving of protection.
Thc profits from this business do not go to the nation. The gains are for the drug triffickers, for gangs of international scope, and as crumbs for some coca grow.r who have obsarved that this item attains considerable rises in price.
No crime results from a sliigle cause. But we can and must try to eliminate some of the foundations of these causes. Among tiese causes is, certainly, the fact that the raw material coca can be obtained in Bolivia at low prices; only some recently ctnacted precautions for its marketing have to win out. One of the basic points, perhaps the nain one, lies in coca production. Therefore, if the growing wcrc rcduced, we would have taken a big step in regulating this type of offense.
Let us not forget that there have been other countries that faced similar problems. This happened, for instance, in Iran, which up to a quarter of a century ago was t1ie rnnin supplier of opium and its derivatives to the Western world. Since then the production of nr.otics decreased because the government eliminated growing 1ip,1ly and physically and closely supervised the enforcement of these measures. Sonw.thliig imi1ar was done in other nations, such as Turkey, with good results.
iii Bolivia re.gulation over growing has to be extended, and those dealing in cocaine liould tic seriously investigated. The quantity required is small to supply the dc’me.nr 1: market and to satisfy a habit that otherwise, must tend to disappear.
Obviously this action will harm some growers. But we have to consider that it is not possible Lo follow the present course, with a production that we know for the most part ends in physical and mental damage both domestically and abroad. The excuse that there will be growers who are harmed is not acceptable. We will have to stress the need to replace the products being grown even with less profitable ones, but which are also less dangerous. We do not be1iee that, in the long run, there is a lack of means and of foreign and international help to carry forward thIs campaign that has to be fulfilled, as much through an effort of persuasion as by vtgorous punishment, if necessary.
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fArt ide: “International Report: Excessive Growing of Coca Threatens Agricultural Prodwt.ion in Bolivia”]
ITcxtI A report by the International Commission on the Fight Against Drugs points out that Bolivia’s agricultural production is threatened by the excessive growing of the c ca leaf.
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It notes that traditionally Bolivia was compelled to produce the necessary food products. The report states that a large part of the country is not suitable for agriculture and that half of the population has to work at farming to satisfy the people’s minimal food needs.
“But now,” it adds, “in view of the expansion of illegal narcotics production, the Bolivian farmers are replacing the planting of food products with the coca
The reputt determines that unless this trend is corrected, Bolivia will soon be facing the problem of not being able to provide the necessary focd for its people.
The commission explains that signs of an Imminent food shortage are seen in the markets, where the prices of essential items, from potatoes to corn, are rising rapidly, and the effects are being felt by workers tied down to a salary. The report adds that “the only ones who have not been affected are thos holding the largest part of the profits from the narcotic drugs industry.”
According to the International Commission, the profits from illegal trading in this alkaloid have created 50 new millionaires in Bolivia, some of them on the scale of more than 30 million dollars. “Also,” the commission says, “this trade has created countless new, poor farmers who must earn their living dangerously by growing coca shrubs high up in the mountains, while most of the population is facing an niarning shortage of food products because the farmers are no longer planting food products.”
The report states that the other by—products of the illegal coca well known. It adds, “Recently accusations were exchanged among responsible for reducing the narcotics traffic.” It says rumors bribery and that addiction is increasing. The report goes on to regions where coca production is the main occupation have become which drug traffickers rule through heavily armed gangs.
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The document which, on the whole, refers to Bolivia, states that the government, upon realizing the low production of food products, has taken measures to reduce the harvesting of coca leaves. A special license, says the report, is needed for growing and selling coca. The Bolivian police force is carrying out inspections throughout the country to find and destroy the illegal coca shrub plantations. Despite this action, an increasingly larger area is being devoted to growing coca, since the profits for selling this plant illegally are greater-—between 40 and 100 percent——than the profits from selling coca legally.
Bi’ferrIng to ways of battling the excessive production of coca, the International Coinrnb.ion suggests that the government increase its operations against the trnffickers, since these measures would make trafficking in the refined drug much more risky. The report adds that the government must focus its efforts on programs that will allow the poor farmers to have an adequate income so that they do not have to resort to the illegal growing of the coca leaf.
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Price of Coca Protested
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(TexiJ 71w ecrntInunl incrvu in coca pricet on th legal market is caufting PeriollA (conc;m1c dtiningc ,.0 thc mining industry0 etateo the National Mining hoard, which untttp Jiol Jvia’‘mn1 minerr1.
A h•tter rnnt by tb orgtinization to Minister of the Interior Col Luis Arce it,:ki th;it urgent mclmurus tw taken to check the excessive rise in coca pricG, to avoid prob1c’m with the niinc wor!ter.
Acvordlng to the smill miners, “The supp1yng of coca leaveB for our workers, who numbt’r H(’v(’r&Il thouHllnd, has 8ubstantially worsened, creating at the preRent time a grnvc probcm, first because of the tremendous difficulty in obtaining coca on thc! li•gnl market and necondly because of the unrestrained and excessive rue in prht!H, which have reached an incredible Increase of 1,400 percent.”
“The icr1ousncss lies in our not being able to compete in price with the illegal marker,” adds the small miners’ letter, which suggests that a vay be studied to niau caslcr the supplying of coca to the iDining districts.
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Acvrdhig to the nmall miners in January 1979 a drum of coca cost 600 Bolivian vus. At the end of 1979 the price rose to 3,000 Bolivian pesoti.
1’Iw price r13e continue6. Last August a drum of coca sold at 9,000 pesos.
The Hmahl miners are asking that the flystem of price restraints be unproved in the lQgnl coca market, as an aid to the fight against narcotics trafficking.
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SHORTACE OF FUNDS LThITS CA?PAIGN AGAINST COCAINE
Sno Paulo 0 ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO in Portuguese 21 Sep 80 p 36
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[Texti Maneus——A shortage of financial resources and lack of lupport from bodies if filiated with the eector have caused the federal police to suspend “Operation Cocaine,” which va launched 2 months ago and which culiinated in the diacovery of a major international network of drug trafficker, operating in the Amazon region since 1970. In that period, they eitablished sophisticated laboratories in Man.im for the extraction of cocaine hydrochloride and exported about 3 tons of the drug to th. United States and European countries. As if the lack of reiources and means for dispatching its agent. to capture drug trafficker. ilno are still at large Vera not enough, the federal police nm. find it. activttiei hindered by the releane fro. preventiv. trisonent of drug trafficker Jose AuguRto 3asilio (alias Padeirinho), believed to be on. of the leader, of the network. This iituation of financial crisi8 in the federal police may encourag. drug traffickers to reorganize the network, using nev rout.. on the b.sia of the cocaine plantings being cultivated in the upper Negro River region.
This situation i. also preventing the federal police froc organizing an expedition to the Negro River region on the Co1bian frontier, which can only be reached by airplane or helicopter, to asseI8 the plantings of epadu, a plant which the Haku nnd ilanapixuna Indian. cultivate and use in their ritua1. However, special lab— oratoy tests have establiehed that the plant i “erytroxili coca la.k,” a variety of cocaine cultivated in the Andean regions of Bolivia. Epadu, a native na which means “brute force,” is found in large quantities in the natural state in the Negro River region. According to federal police, the Indians in that region are being ncouraged by drug traffickers to cultivate the plant on a large scale. The ‘,upcrintendent of the DPF [Federal Police Department] Ivo Aaericano, expres8ed regret at the lack of funds with which to continue “Operation Cocaine,” and says he fears thie Bhortage may lead the drug traffickers to reorganize in a short time and undertake to exploit the p1anting of epadu. “In order to take drastic Htcps against cocaine traffic in the Aaazon region,” Ivo AmericAno said, “a great deal of money is needed. And we do not have it.” The lack of resources of all kinds-—material, humar, financial and logistic——has prevented the federal police from arreeting the most important drug traffickers, in pL’Lrticular
Arlindo de Oliveiro Cabral, who maintains a large laboratory for the processing of the cocaine into powder, currently located in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Arlindo Cabral. wa responsible for the processing of the greater part of the
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cocaine mid the large cxport of It to the United Statea. “The drug traffickers have cvery fici1ity for functioning in the region,” Ivo Americano coented. “They know the Aa on region, they have money, and they have the protection of important people.”
tlHing all type of transportation, the network of drug traffickers had no difficulty eiLah1ihing ftM headquarters in the Amazon region a well a support potntu vithin it. A map ctzed from drug trafficker. arreeted •howed that the network used a number of routes through widely varying points in the Amazon region to bring in cocaine paste and process it into powder. The network converged at Manau,, and Moufifn, an abandoned settlement on the right bank of the Negro River 150 kL1omter fron Manaus. The cocaine W18 transported from Bolivia across the Rondonian border to Guaraja—Mirim. Froz there, by car or plane, using “mules” (courier8) it wtnt to the 1aboratorie located in Manaus and Moura. Pros H&nauB, after proce’ts1ng into powder, the drug took various routes: to Letitia from Mourn, or to Tefe, in Alto Solimoea, where the drug vu taken out of the country by 1iLp or ina11 plane. Another route led directly £ro Santa Cruz de la Sierra to MoLIra, where Arlindo Cnbra3. operated a large laboratory on board a fast launch which could move elsewhere when the drug traffickers’ network felt police were cloGlng in.
The Btcady stream of amall airplane flights to Hour. led the police by chance to the cIicovery chat the proceing center for cocaine was located somewhere on the Negro River. Along with this, the forced landing of a Bolivian Aztec biplane, 1lcenHc CP1502, on Lake Xiparu, in Moura, confirmed the federal police BuBpicions that Manaun was then the hub of the cocaine world. Orders were then given to arrest nil Colombian8 BuBpected of 1ink with the drug trafficker.’ network. In the rvsldences of the Colombians, police found veritable chemical laboratoriee where cocaine was proceed. The biplane which landed on Lake Xipaxu was carrying 600 kIlograms of powdered cocaine which was taken out of the regioi by Indians hired by the drug traffickers. This aircraft is ti11 in the region, while the FAB (Brazilian Air Force] and the federal police are attempting to recover it. )ut money to puraue the recovery operation is lacking.
The (reat Discovery
All of the discovertes made by the federal police concerning cocaine traffic in the Amazon region were made almost by chance. Thie was the case with the arre8t of 34 drug traffickers in the .idd1e of July, the forced 1nding of the Bolivian planc in Moura in June, the arrest of drug trafficker Jose Augusto Basilio, or “Padeirinho,” and, finally, the cocaine plantings being cultivated on the upper Negro River. A report coiuing from the Colombian frontier revealed that the Matu irnd tianapixuna Indiana were engaging in etrange dealings with Colobiani in Mitti and Snn Jo Guaviare, exchanging large quantities of epadu leaves for fariz equLpment——machete8, hatchets, power saws and boat engines, and were thus abandon— tng their clearing operations and the rudimentary farming in which they engage. A police expedition was made to the area and large plantings of epadu were found n.ar th Indian villages and in large clearings cut in the brush by the natives. The In .ans then said that they plant epadu for use as a 8timulant in their rLtua1 and ce1ebration. In view of the interest of the Colombians in the plant, a sample ia aent to Manaus, and, when tested in the laboratory of the National Institute for Amazon Region Research (INPA), it proved to be coca, froi which cocaine hydrochloride is extracted.
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The Indians, lacking ubstantia1 resources for diversifying their crops, were re&dlly peruadcd by the Colombians to plant epadu on a large scale. Today, they do not.hin but grow the 1eave they sell to the drug traffickers at 1,000 or 2,000 cruzetros per 6omkilogram aek. Access to the frontier region, according to th. fedet.J. polke, ii very easy. The Papuri River which separatel Erazil and colombia, is ttatt#w and ha11ow making it easy for both Braziliane and Co1obians ‘ross the frontier. There ii no Brazilian police authority in the area except 1 Juaret and Jandia, where the Salegian misione are located. And it wu in Jnndla, where the Vanapixuna 1ndian live, that the police found large p1anting of epadu. Th area on which the Indians cultivate the plant exceeds 200 quar kilo— mter and iB located in Cabeca do Cachoro, in that sector where the ap &tov Brazil ba its longest atretch of frontier with Colombia and Vnezue1a.
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Rio d Janeiro 0 GLOO in Portuguese 1 Oct 80 p 7
LTextl Manau—4’edera1 Judge Orlando de Souza Reboucag paseed eentence yesterday on three Colotnbiani’i and one Brazilian charged with trafficking in cocaine. They were members of an international 8&flR which used Manau for the proceeeing of the drug. Their sentences varied from 4 to 10 years in prieon, in addition to fines of between 20,000 and 50,000 cruzeiros.
A few weeks ego the federal police arrested 28 Colombiani and several Brazilian, while investigating the landing in the municipality of 3arc.los of a Pipper carrying cocaine. The Co1obians, who operated clandestine laboratories, repre— Bcnted theme1vep aa buinesmen in renting the elegant mansions in which they lived.
In the flrgt lentence for a member of the group, Judge Orlando de Souza sentenced Ralmurido Salvador to 6 years in prison and a fine of 4OOOO cruzeiro.. Yeetarday, Rodrigo Angarita, who controlled the organization’s laboratoriea, was sentenced to 10 years and 8 months in prison, as veil as a 52,000—cruzeiro fine.
Concnlo Hurtado Harm, one of the 2 cheiita, waa sent.nced to 4 years and a 40000-cruzeiro fine. Maria Evelin Arias Ruiz was sentenced to 4 yeare in priBon kind a fine of 20,000 cruzeiros and Jo.. Limi de A1..ida a 8razilian who sirpplied the chemical products, such a. ether and acetone, will •p.nd 4 years in prison and must pay a fine of 40,000 cruzeiros.
In the 29—page deci8ion, the judge explained that he acquitted Co1obians Hutnberto Paatrana Cardona Rnd Sandra Mesa Hincappie for lack of sufficient proof Incriminating them. However the two are being held at the Central Penitentiary pending an Adminietrative inquiry which is likely to lead to their deportation from the country.
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HABEAS CORPUS PETITION OF CUBAN COCAINE TRAffICKER GRANTED Rio de Janeiro 0 CLOSO in Portuguese 1 Oct 80 p 7
LTextl The Federal Appeals Court (TFR) in Brasilia yesterday authorized the further questioning of Cuban drug trafficker Larry Horano Fernandez, currently being held at the Sao Jose prison in Belem, by the federal courts on his possible addiction to cocaine.
Fernandez was arrested on 7 August in front of the Hotel Centil in Belem, .n possesaion of a suitcase containing 3.808 kilograms of cocaine. The record of his arrest shows that the Cuban presented as identification a false passport in the name of Raul. Leon Viales, a native of Costa Rica.
Federal agents were able to discover his true identity, however, with the assistance of the drug authorities in the United States and the FBI. The Cuban has a criminal record in the United States as an international trafficker in cocaine.
At. a location in the municipality of Cta, in Para, on a property owned by a relative of Fernandez, the federal police found a small laboratory where the Cuban produced cocaine hydrochloride from pure coca leaves. After his arrest, Fernandez claimed he wa, an addict, for which reason the TFR granted his habeas corpus petition for interrogation as such.
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OPIUN ARREST—•Men of the narcotics squad of the General Department for Criminal In— vestigations were able to arrest two suspects in a drug case, the first called “Iloshenk” and the second “Jankiz.” Inquiries by the investigators indicated that the first suspect was the one who acquired the narcotics. After the lnformat.ion was verified, Director of the Genera]. Department for Criminal Investigations Lt Col Fahd Ahmad al-Fahd’s approval was obtained for carrying out a plan to arrest the suspect. Investigators were subsequently able to arrest the suspect at his home In the al—Sharq area, after surrounding the area to prevent his escape. When his nutomoile was searched, a matchbox was found inside which were two packets of opium. When the second suspect who was with the first one was searched, another matchbox was found in his pocket, inside which was a parcel of opium. A search of the first suspect’s room revealed nothing, and the two suspects are still being interrogated after being detained. [Text] [Kuwait AL—QAJAS in Arabic 18 Sep 80 p 5] 8559
FIVE—MAN HASHISH RING——Investigators of the capital province, under the supervision and direction of Province Investigations Inspector Maj ‘Abd—al—Ghaf fur al—’Avdi, succeedeci in arresting a gang which was dealing in narcotics and pushing them within the country. The accused are Haydar, ‘Abd—al—Rahman, Ahmad, ‘Adnan, and another person who is still at large. The Investigators had information indicating that the first suspect would acquire the narcotics. After collecting inquiries about his activity, it became clear that he actually was the one who acquired the narcotics, In addition to pushing them, and that he had been on his way to purchase some hashish from the second suspect. The third suspect expressed his willingness to Lead the investigators to the original source from whom he was getting the narcotics, and who wa living in al—Beds’. An investigator accompanied him to buy two blocks of hashish. The third suspect went with his companion under close surveillance by the al—Fayha’ investigative officer and his men, and they saw the fourth suspect bringing a sack and handing it to the investigator, whom he believed wanted to buy it. At this point the investigators raided the place and arrested the fourth suspect along with the third, and seized ‘he sack, in which there were two blocks of hashish. Upon searching the place, they found 14 other blocks of hashish underneath a water tank on the ground. [Text] [Kuwait AL—QABAS in Arabic 29 Sep 80 p 71 8559
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FOUR MAN NARCOTLCS RtNG——Agents of the anti—narcotics squad in the Bureau of Crtmin&il Investigations were able to seize four men charged with partaking of and posscsLng narcotics. A quantity of narcotic pills was found in their possession. They are: Shthatah, Fawzi, ‘Abd al—Mun’irn and ‘All. The director of the Bureau of CrimtnRl. Investigations, L Co]. Fahd al—Fahd, pointed to the fact that the accuHed men were involved in the possession, partaking of, and sale of drugs, An nprtment was raided, nnd three of the accused were arrested. Following a search, the fir8t Wfl8 discovered to have in his possession 30 pills of the drug “mandrax.” Twenty stm1ar pill8 were found to be in the possession of the second. The third wis found to have .L3 pills as well. All of the accu8ed said that they bought the p1.1ii from the fourth man, through the third man. Upon his arrest, the fourth man confcsed to e11ing quantities of the pills to the third accucd man. He Raid he :icquired these pills from someone about whom he knew nothing. The four accused men have been turned over for questioning. [Excerpt] [Kuwait AL—QABAS in Arabic 6 Sep 80 p 4 9614
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MARIJUANA CROP YIELD-—Yesterday the harvesting of the green hashish crop began in the Ba’labak-al—Harmal area and In the Biqa’ In general. This narcotic plant occupie.8 the greater part of the region’s fartilande, and its production takes priority, eepecially these day., because of the Incidents and the prevailing security chaos. This year’s crop differs from those of previous years from the standpoint of the plGnt’a growth nd success, since it ii re than 2 and 1/2 eter8 tall this year. The improvement this •eason wae helped by the abundance of water and by the reliance on ground water reiources for irrigation now that artesian veils have become wide— spread. A 1ng1e dunum yieldi 2 to 3 qantare of green haihish, i.e. about 850 kilograms. A dunu wifl ensure the farr from 1,000 to 1,800 Lebaneae pounde depending on th. yi.ld. As for the workers’ wages, they vary from 20 to 25 pounds a day for women and 30 to 35 pound. a day fot sen. In spite of the “flourishing” cuttivation of hashish, there have beci attempts to wipe out these fare., through the establishment of a potato cooperative farm in a’ labak and anoth.r farm for yellow watermelon end pineapples In Dar al—Ahmar, and a prolect to encourage the uie of modern irrigation for vegetab1e. There ie also a new project under study calling for Importing a number of milk cows and distributing them to aa11 farmers, on the condition that land be planted with fodder crop. for thiB purpose. [Text I [Beirut AL—NAHAR In Arabic 1.8 Sep 80 p 6] 8559
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FOOD [NSTEAD OF HEMP--The traditional ruler of Ezinifite in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, Chief Stephen Ofomata, has warned tho8e who grow tndtan Hemp instead of food. Chief Ofomata, who was addressing he Ezinifite coiimiunity during the celebration of the town’s second new ynm festival, obeerved that contrary to government’s noble intention, some michtevous elements in the society had chosen to cultivate weed for cornmerciat purposee. He drew the attention of those involved in the practice to a law prohibiting the growing and emoking of the weed in the country and warned that anybody caught violating the law in the town would be regarded e in enemy of progress. The treditional ruler appealed to the people of Fziniftte to co-operate with him in hi. effort to track down theoe wicked Iimencs In their midst. He advised anyone who te in difficulty or has problems to approach him f or fatherly advice. Re, hmever, expreued diemay over the current trend of leaving farm work to the feeble and aged In the villages, and warned against its consequences. Chief Ofonata prayed for bumper harvest next year and asked God to epare the livei of all •o they could join in the celebratf on of the next festival. In his awn speech, the chairman of the occasion, Mr E. Umudu, thanked the people of Ezlriifite as well. i people who came from different parts of the federation t:o grace the occaeion. He appealed to the people of Ezinifite to give their chief_maxImum co-operation so as to enable him deliver the goods to them. LTex/ jEnugu DAILY STAR in English 12 Sep 80 p
STRICTER PENALTIES F()i DEALERS--A renowned p8ychiatric, Dr Bartha CA. John8on has called fo€ stricter penaittee for hemp-peddlers. Dr. Johnion maintained that euch a meaaure would not only serve ae a deterrent but also reduce the circulation of Indian hemp within the society. She made this suggestion in Abeokuta while contributing to a sympoeium titled: “Indian Hemp Abuse” under the auspices of the National Mental Health Association is part of activities to mark the Mental Health Week. Dr. Johnson who is a chief con.iiltant at the Yaoa Psychiatric Roipital in Lagos, observed that Indian hemp whether chewed, drunken or smoked could be injurious to health both mentally and pIyica11y. She held the view that about 70 percent of mental csee at the psychiatric Iloipitat were cauied by hemp smoking, adding that emoking of the weed could also cause impotence. In his own contribution, Dr. Ona Soleye, of the Department of iociology at the
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University of Tbndan, maintained that some people indulging in hemp 8moking neorly forgut their problem. which he added wai alwayi temporary. Dr.
Soleyo blamed the ocia1 ills in the country like armed robbery to smoking
of ttdLn hemp. He therefore suggeeted that an imprieonan1 of_20 !o 25 yare ahould be impoeed on all cu1pits of hemp imoking. jTex/ LLagoe PAttY TIMES in En1teh 7 Oct 80 p /
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AUSTR IA
nRu(; RING HEAD ARRESTED——On 8 October, Austrian police arrested 50—year—old Canadian citizen Peter John Newall, the head of an international drug ring, in Taxenbach near Salzburg. Siti1taneou1y, another 20 members of the ring wire arre,ted in numerous other countries including Great Britain, Australia, Holland, New Zealand, Cyprus, United States, Italy and the FRG. The organi— znt Ion wa completely smashed. Newall, his wife and hiB 27—year—old SOfl Peter had come to Austria on 22 November 1979. Acting upon information from Canadian police, Austrian police placed the fai1y under surveillance. tt was establiNhed that Peter John Newall’s organization operated on all continents, with his wife acting as “treasurer” and his son Peter as his right—hand man, while tO “mnjor lieutenants” were in charge of regional operations in various parts of the world. According to Austrian police, it is not believed that the gang supp tied any drug8 to the Austrian scene, as this would have meant an unneces— iary risk for its operation. [AU141830 Vienna DIE PRESSE in German 14 Oct 80 p 8J
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POT,ICI• FiN!) TONS OF HASHISH——According to a police announcement four tons of
hashish Inve been found on a vessel under the Lebanese flag. The vessel had
th’vcioped engine trouble and was towed into the old Limassol port yesterday.
AH a resuLt of a search of the vessel, a large quantity of hashish was discovered. All eight crew members have been arrested; the crew included three Lehane, two Italians, two Chileans and one Egyptian. [Text] [NC212132 NLC’091II Domestic Service in Greek 2100 GHT 21 Oct 80]
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UEAI,1ll OFFICIAL URGES cONCEWI’RATION OF EFFORT ON YOUNGER DRUG ADDtCTS
Copenhagen BERLINCSKE TIDENDE in Danish 27 Sep 80 Pt II p 2
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lArtirle by R.E. Knipschildt, chairman of the Society for Health Care of Denmark chairman of the select committee under the Coiiiilttee for Health Information and o. the contact coninittee of the Health Administration on Alcohol and Narcotics Problems: “We Must Create a New Attitude Toward Drug Addiction”]
[Text 1 Five to 6000 persons of age 25 to 35 have been drug addicts for over 10 years. Treatment institutions have been unsuccessful in curing them and restoring them to normal life, and they constitute a group of very great risk.
Wiwn for over 10 years one has dealt with the drug problems of young people, the (IlIvHt: Ion of whether it is at all possible to combat this present—day evil in an effcctlve way becomes increasingly urgent.
I’hc sale of narcotics iB so profitable a businesa, controlled by so clear—headed and cynical men that thus far it has been possible only to a limited extent to darn the massive importation of narcotics, in particular of heroin. As is known, this drug iB effective in so small amounts that if only one kilogxain of it enters the comtry it i a matter of saleB of about 1 million kroner.
ThiH explains why it is so diUicu1t, not to ay impossible, for customs officials und the pol.tce to win this game.
‘Liw former chief of the United States narcotics police expressed it ris follows:
Even if all U.S. military forces, on land., at sea, and the air, were engaged In thc battle against importation of narcotics the fight could not be won.
‘nw reduction n the amount of drugs offered for sale that i. due to a particularly skillful effort by CUBCOUIS men and the police is thus not adequate to prevent the presence in our country of the drugs.
‘rtiLs is a stte of affairs we must learn to live with for many years.
Another weapon in the struggle is reiuction of the demand. This Is what is being attempted through an extensive infotmation and preventive effort in scnools, youth clubs, and where youth gathers.
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It wcmii UHt1iOd to cvnluiite the effect of this positively since the Incruaw of new young tiddietH huH 1L’Rtie.ned to ionw degrcw.
‘l’liJn IH gr,itlfylng, f ourse, but at the same time we are confronted by a group of 5—6 tltounand perHonB, 1motit all of whom have been nddicts for over 10 yeiir, iind who hiva not bean Bucc(2Hslfully weaned away from drugs and rehabilitated by our trc!iltrncnt 1ntftuttons.
Iiwsw young (wopl(! re now In the 25 to 35 age group and represent a very high rIHk roup, a high mnrtullty rsite (ovor 100 deathg annually), and con81derabh ortii) l)rohIumH. Why hng It thuB Far been possible to only a very limited exteni tn 1w I p th’e peop 1t?
Ilivrc iirt probably gcveri1 re.ison. First nd foremost, only few of them wish to he Iwiped on the cr)fl(titlons4 preBented to them. A number of them have been treated r(’lwIItcdly In our rrnitment institutions, but after some time they have givc!n up :in’I gonc b.irk to d r1gB
A r(port by county youth c’enters responsible for treatment in th counties st1itcs:
“It h; difficult to estabflHh cooperation with the clientele.’“Increasing age If oni• of tile prtmry difficulties in presenting alternatives to this group. lucy ft’c1 they ore tno old to accept treatment in families, and they feel them— w1ves to be too old to accept treatment from con8iderably younger pedagogucs in IniitItutioti. “ThL group takes a very negative and rejecting attitude to alter— imtlves offered.”
lii brlc’f, this means that the treatment institutions do not reach the clients and irv iinnblc to engage them In cooperation. It is clear that as concerns treatment tiii’ I)CHt ihatice of obtaining ii reasonnbly good result is found among the younger, %.‘VIl motlv;ited clients with short addictior careers.
In i,i ;irtLeI fl MAN, DRUGS ANI) SOCIETY Peter Ege states: “Increasingly, the (l1(’Ilts ny that the street Institutions have become ‘institutionalized’ in i11 the n ative meanings of the word, that they are being treated as by guardians, Irom sihove downward, and thit they no longer care about them. A tendency rclnforccd by the ronstantly narrowing entrance doors of the institutions, tit,nndonrncnt of contact centers, limiting of open hours, and visiting procedures tw1n made Inhuman nd bureaucratized. Where can an addict turn in the evening or ut night and be w11 received?”
I hnve n1m seen the Institutions becoming better at ejecting or turning away the rTk•rit. often bcr:iuse of liicklng motivation and noncompliance with trbitrari1y ,ick’tcd criteria, but in rcnlity because clients who do not uresent their ntIv:ittoi. on n 91lve tray or cnnnot adjuRt to the narrow criteria often are the mit dLifJiult to tren. and the moBt “ungrateful” and work with them produces tlw Iinret rcsii1t. This means that the. clients most in need of treatment rL! iiirwtI aw,iy from or out of the institutions and left to themselves in the most ‘‘vnt envtronmcnts or In the traditional caretaking institutions——the state
ili r prisonn. Here I should like to reiterate that just these LxI4t’•t1stiJi1StiCflhIy oriented foms of treatment, with their often unrefihistically I,h de,jincIg upon the clicnts, servo to justify this process of separation of the’ I1 nteic.
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.1. Leiiige Jacobsen (“Treatment of Deviants”) has in some more general conuncnts on thu HocLnl clientele stited that “the capacity (or perhaps the quality) is not tivtillnblo to cover the need for help,” and that therefore the most “promising” (:4lHeH cire given priority, which introduces a “worthiness criterIuzn” in ttundin to the clients. Further, he states that an unrealistically high goal in client treatment hi some (:1Hes is “not only inadequate but counterproductive by the mere rit that, tis alrendy mentioned, one deprives the addict of his legal rights by rcjcctlng him, so that he does not receive the help we postulate he has the right to •
tIn1u4H draHtir c1tnngtH nrc msde in the orginizntion and basic philosophy of the trcsitmcnt tnHt[tutlonR tind the youth centers It is question whether treatment of tiw L,lder iddict shculd remain the responsibility of these institutions.
With their pretent structure and treatment possibi1itie it eezns at times a waat of time, effort srnd money to work with the older addicts within this frnmework.
We iirc much in need of alLernative methods of treatment for this unhappy group or p(op1c. But one nf the problems is that such new efforts to satisfy require— tiic.’nts arc ,r)rticu1Ar1y demanding, as cop.cerns both treatment and financing.
At 11w I)rclhienL time a proposal is before the Copenhagen City Council involving txpcr1rncntnI1y reinforcing socia—pedagogic treatment with methadon for shorter or Longer purtoda, thereby stopping the addicts’ criminal acquisition of money icr drugs nnd keeping them In a treatment situation.
Every day we receive appealg fcr help from hard hit addicts and their relatives. Inr Lhem nil ways out seem closed, leaving only crime, which sooner or later takes them behind prison bars, causing grief to the addict and an unreasonible load upon the prison system.
Iorccd Lrentment of such persons has beer tried in some countries, but without ronvincing results. Since the treatment In itself Is so difficult and demanding ( mtikei necessary t a high degree the personal involvement of and acceptance by tiw addict, which is hnrdly obtained by force. We must thoroughly review our “nt(rc phiLosophy of treatment and try to discover which groups of addicts our s;iqt’ni cn help and try to discover alternative method8 for others. Alternative mcLlulcIH rcferg also to other measuree, perhaps not involving treatment in the tr;ilklonol ,nse on the basis of the assumption that certain addicts are in fwt untreatable, at least in their present situation. These are often charac— icrized by nbndonment of hope, resentment of society’s offers of help, and in both HaciAI and psychic respecti in very poor situations. A long period of life niitiidc of general soci1 rulen has put its stamp on them in the form of asocial piittarnn of behavior and low demanda for a life content. The sooner we i:know1edge that this untreacability exista in certain cases the better. tn such c.ISQ one helpa the addict much more by making society’s a8sistanre apparatus nvailable to him first and foremost for the purpose of decriminatizing him and humanizing hi existence.
l(Jddy, If they refuge trenticnt rffercd them, they are in practice deprived of some of the rights and obligotions other gocial groups enjoy by virtue of social 1eg11atLon. This cnuqes many of them to see only a choice between drug additLon ;ind mi, to them, inadequate offer of treatment.
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ft shcu1d LI11o li considered in which situations the older drug addicts should
1w offered penfons ai Invalids, and, finally, what types of institutions should
1w tiwd In caNw4 when, without being on the road to rehabilitation and resociailzn— tion, ihey have nccd of instiiutional care.
I know th?It this wlicile quetton is very sensitive. Ideological, political, and twonomtc points of view ciisily make the debate diffuse, but I believe we must throw otirc1ves into It. After ati these years of uncertainty and experiments thc’ time hsu arrlvcd to find an attitude toward these problems. Svend Heinild’s wordii [ti his crtttque c,f the book “Traatment of Deviants,” are still applicable:
“Only thtrty yearH hiive passed since the question of attempting to bring concord botwccn tlw aspirations of the deviants and the practical posibi1ities of rIIzLn them lay beyond the range of the daily debate.
11w dt’viant was rcgarded, and still is to some degree, as an isolated individual—— ,-in nbjcctlvc of treatment or punishment. His existence, in the more ininaterial MflS( 118 a aocial twing, was left out of consideration.”
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POLICE CRACK ALGERIAN DRUG GANG WHICH SNUGGLED HASHISH
Copenhagen bEKLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 8 Oct 80 p 5
[Article by Anders WIig]
DENMARK
[Texti Suicide pilots, that’s what the Copenhagen narcotics police caLl a gang of hhih couriers who wa1kd one after the other Into ttaps set by the police and customs officials at Kastrup Airport over the last 8 weeks. All are unemployed Algerians hired by professional gang leaders in Paris and London to smuggt several hundted kilograms of hashish to the Danish and Swedish markets from Karachi, Pakistan.
They weru called suicide pilots because they aLways turned up with their suitcases filled to the brim with 15 kilograms of hashish--unconcealed, simply wrapped In something like Bjorn Wiinbkad gift wrap, but never cleverly hidden out of sight in double bottoms, lids or tucked into the sides of the suitcases.
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Since 12 August the Copenhagen narcotics police have cracked an extensive hashish gang which in the opinion of the police is led by three or four ALgerians. As of now the gang is accused of smuggling in several, hundred kilograms of hashish. The police are investigating the possibility that this goes back to 1978 when Algerian hashish smugglers apparently took over smuggling operations after a Danish-Pakistani gang. Since then 42 Algerians have been detained and a half ton of hashish has been seized.
The Latest wave of arrests included two Danes and 19 Algerian couriers and gang leaders--arrested in Copenhagen and in Paris. It started at Kastrup on 12 August. A suitcase aroused suspicion when it was delivered to the passenger luggage office by one southerner, picked up shortly afterward by another and finally brought back by a Dane. The police kept an eye on the baggage office and arrested three Algerians who came to pick up the suitcase for the second time. It contaIned 350,000 kroner. The same amount of money was found in their rented car along with false passports and a pistol. One of the Algerians was going to travel to Geneva to hand the money over to one of the leaders of a hashish gang dominated by Algerians. He went under the name of “Kr tnterpol, lived in London but traveled frequently between London, Copenhagen, Paris, Geneva and Karachi.
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Mr Interpol Seized in Paris
Thc same thing happened to two other gang Leaders the police found out about in in Lntene secret Lnve8tigatton, the details of which are being withheld pendtng court proceedings. Several. hundred kilograma of hashish, almoat 1.5 mitLion kroner ind 18 courLers ended up in the hands of the police after airport seizures and raids in Copenhagen. The couriers turned up one after another with 5uitcases full of hashish without suspecting that the gang had been found out.
The police know that the courier3 were to get 5OOOO kroner for a successful mugg1ing trip with 15 kilograms of hashish at a “retail price” of 600,000 kroncr. The starting point was a hotel. in Karachi where gang leaders often had a dozen couriers sitting and waiting for a trip. When it was theLr turn, they were told to go to Karachi Airport where they were shown a suitcase brought on board by corrupt officiala. The couriers saw the suitcase in Kastrup when they arrived and their Job was to take it to someone else, But in 18 instaticea the Irip ended up at the police station.
The police know the gang leadees suspected each other ani the couriers of cheattrig when one shipment after another disappeared. So did one of the gang leaders whin he came to Copenhagen from London to pick up som. money. Thus it took a long time before they discovered that the police had been rounding up the gang Leaders. Those working on the case also know that leaders had cynically counted on losing a certain percentage of couriers and shipments. In addition those who had been arrested were kept in total isoLation while they were being detained.
On Thursday Mr Interpol was arrested at the Apollo Hotel in Paris just after he nrrived by plane from Africa--and after he had received special delivery Letters from Copenhagen and London containing two false ID cards. It was requested IhaL he be turned over to Denmark and his position on the charge is still not known. On the same day four suspects were detained in Copenhagen and in a ceHar in Osterbro the police found 240,000 kroner hidden in a plastic bag.
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PHYSICIAN SAYS FAKED PRESCRIPTIONS WERE YOR OWN USE
Hc’ltnki UUSI SUONI in Finnish 20 Sep 80 p 18
LArticie: “Doctor Wrote 650 Prescriptions: ‘I Used All the Drugs Myself1”]
FINLAND
(‘I’extI The female doctor imprisoned on Thursday by the Helsinki criminal police haB tonfesed under interrogation that Bhe herself used all the drugs she received on tI’e over 650 prescriptions he wrote.
According to her statement, she must have used about 16,000 strong dose8 of morphine during the laat 5 years.
“It seems impoeib1e,” ay the police and the Central Medical Board.
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The drug section of the criminal police imprisoned a female doctor of the surgical department of a Helsinki hospital. According to the investigations, the doctor had written a total of 664 drug prescriptions during the last 5 years.
She wrote 318 “pro auctore” prescriptions for herself, and 346 prescriptions In the tiarm of another person.
With the prescriptions the doctor received over 8 liters of morphine, 6,300 Dolorex tablets, and almost 500 milliliters of the drug Petidin.
Under interroarion she persistently claimcd that he used the drugs herself. According to that she would have had to us 16,008 half—milliliter doses of morphine, in addition to other things. Morphine doses for medicinal use start at 0.2 ini11i1Lers, for example.
According to her claim, the doctor uust have used 4 milliliter8 of n,rphine every (ny.
“It seems impossible. No proof of the woman’s explanation was found during the Investigation,” says section head Unto Vuono of the Helsinki criminal police.
The police are not yet prepared Co state whether or not the doctor may have sold some drugs to others.
Drugs Stored at Home
Morphine is a narcotic drug, and the doctor apparently wrote also some prescriptions for cancer and asthma medicines, among others, in an effort to mislead so that no attention would be paid to the drug prescriptions.
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Sie kvpt tiw tncdicines at home. In a house search, the police found at the doctor’s hornc dozcnH of kt1o of the9e medicines, some of which were already too old (to ue1.
The doctor xp1ainid during the investigation that the person in whose name she wrotc? some of the prescriptions suffered from cancer. According to the investigation, this claim 18 not true. The person does not exist, but according to Vuono 11w pvron ha nothing to do with the matter.
1)tHcovercd Already in 1977
Offtce. manag;er Anctt Marttlla of the general office of the administrative section of the Central Medical Board says that the imprisoned doctor was caught during un Lnspcctlon by the Medical Board already in 1977, but the doctor was able to give a satiRfactory expinnation for the drug prescriptions at that time.
Now tiw doctor has been caught again, but this time the Central Medical Board is not rcacting favorably to her explanations.
“We icc the police investigate the matter, because we thought that drug offenses mtght be involved.”
Vuono aya thrit the Dolorex scandal uncovered Last suer is continuing to spread. PreHcrtption written for 300,000 Dolorex tablets have been uncovered so far.
Acerd1ng to this, over 10 million marks have been spent on Dolorex in Street mILes, but the amounts will fitill increase as the affair keeps growing the more nw investigation progresses.
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FEWER YOUTH ON DRUGS-—A poll of recruits shows that the use of narcotics by youth has clearly decreased. Of those inducted last spring, 9.2 percent had used drugs at least once. According to the cerreRponding poll made by tne research section ot the Social and Health Ministry in 1971, the percentage of drug users was 16.2 percent. The use of drugs continuee to be concentrated in Southern Finland. Eleven point one percent of the group from Southern Finland and 2.6 of the group from Northern Finland reported having used drugs. Most of the use of drugs represented experimentation out of curiosity, ho’ever: about 60 percent of the “uHer&’ had tried drugs only once. The drug experimented with was almoBt always one of the cannabis preparations, hashish or marijuana. About 16 percent •f the experimentera had u9ed thinner or some other solvent. Researcher Markku Reinonen obHerves that the results from recruits cannot be directly generalized to use by youth in general. Those that work with young drug users have, however, observed the same direction of development since the beginning of the 1970’s, the use of druga among the youth has decreased noticeably. [Text) [Helsinki HELSINGIN SANOMAT In Finnish 26 Sep 80 p 121 9611
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DRUG SEIZURES NOTED——Between 1 and 13 August, 500 kilograms of various drugs worth 26 million francs were seized by French customs personnel. The Finance Ministry points out that these seizures, which did not occur in Paris alone, are the largest since 1972. At the border between France and Spain, Perthus customs officials uncovered more than 220 k1os of cannabis resin, while in Marseilles, 79 kilos of liquid cannabis were Beized, and 85 kilos in Toulouse— Blagnac. Mso, maintenance workers in the SNCF [French railroads) 8hop at Oulina (Rhone) found 4 kilos of Indian hemp worth 60,000 franc8 in one of the cars of the “Corail” train linking Amsterdam to Paris. In Spain, according to AFP [FRENCH PRESS AGENCYJ, 1.222 kilo of extremely pure heroin, which could have been used to produce 80,000 dose., WBH found in a Madrid apartment. A couple was arrested. Also as reported AFP, Yugoalav cuBtoms officials have, since the beginning of the year, seized 259 kilos of heroin and 1.2 ton of hashish. In 1979 only 34 kilos of heroin had been seized on Yugo8lav soil. [TextJ LParis LE MONDE in French 17—1 Aug 80 p 5] 11936
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UNEMPLOYED MEROIN ADDICT ARRESTED—-Sandro Frau di Quartu, an unemployed youth 19 years old, was arrested yesterday for possessing drugs: he was found to be in posseaBton of 380 milligrams of heroin which the police considered to be more tiwn a “8mall quantity” and therefore for personal use. With the expression, “small quantity,” the 1975 Antidrug Law opened the way to ambiguous Interpretations:
this is shown by sentences which, from time to time, absolve or condemn drug addicts from whom small quantities of drugs have been confi,caed. Sendro Frau wa arrested by agents of the police department’s narcotics squad; he was traveling with three friends in an automobile when stopped for inspection In Viale Marconi. After a thorough search he was found in posaeaaion of the heroin which, wrapped in tinfoil, he was carrying In a pocket of his blue jeans. Taken to the police station, the youth maintained that he was a drug addict and had purchased the drug in Selargius. ITexti [Cagliari L’UNIONE SARDA in Italian 25 Sep 80 p 5] 8568
INTERNATIONAL DRUG ‘COURIER’ EXPELLED—-Sassari, 27 September—-An international drug “courier” was expelled from the country this morning hort1y after being released from the Aighero territorial prison. A police car was waiting at the exit to transfer the eecourjer,e Slngaraiu Kerisnan, a Malaysian citizen, 30 years of age, immediately to the offices of the foreign division of the town’s police department. Singaram Kerisnan had been arrested by the Genoa police In January 1977; 8topped at the port for normal inspection, he had been found to be in possession of 3 kg of pure heroin valued at more than 3 billion lire. [Text [cagliari L’UNIONE SARDA in Italian 28 Sep 80 p 11] 8568
HEROIN SEIZED IN NAPLES——A Fedeliasima patrol arrested Aniello Benestare (32 yearn old, of Torre del Greco) and Antonio Conte (40 years of age, of Ca8tellam— mare) in San Giorgio a Creinano. Upon seeing the officers, the two had fled, scattering the. contents of some small envelopes in the street. However, one of the “packets” VUB recovered and was found to contain I gram of heroin. [Excerpti (Naplcs IL MATTINO in Italian 26 Sep 80 p 15] 8568 --
A [‘S IN ITALY——Three Frenchmen were arrested in Italy on Friday. 15 August an they were leaving a bar reputed to be a drug users’ ingout. Patrice Badin, 29, of Longue (Maine—et—Loire), Pierre— 1)idler Mathieu, 27, of Paris, and Yves—Alain Pensa, 35, of Nimes were found in possession of several doses of cocaine and heroin. [Text] [Paris LE MONDE in French 17—18 Aug 80 p 5]
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DISORDER LN IRAN RESPONSIBLE FOR CHEAP HEROIN WAVE
Oslo ARBE1DERBLADET in Norwegian 24 Sep 80 p 2
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The turbulent political situation in han has led to a breakdown in over the ILlegaL dtug trade and the country will, very probably be the biggest twroin producer this year.
The chief of the Oako police force’s narcotics division, Arne Huuse, told NTB [NORWEGIAN PRESS AGENCY) that on the basis of reports from international contncts.
Up to 2 years ago the Chinese dominated the illegal narcotics market in Europe with shipments of heroin from the so-called Golden Triangle, Thailand, Burma and Laos.
“Now most of the heroin comes from Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan which constitute an Important new triangle. Suppliers from that area are now delivering dru, at outright dumping prices to outcompete the Chinese heroin syndicates and that is perhaps the most disturbing thing about this development,” Huuse
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“With that kind of price drop there Ls an overvhelmiig danger that addicts will. find it easier to go over to the use of a harder drug, heroin which would lead to n further Increase in the number of drug-related deaths,” Huuse said.
In several recent narcotics cases the Norwegian narcotics police have been given clear indications that international drug rings are increasingly Oper atLng their own routes to Norway arid that they probably see the Norwegian market as a very attractive one due to a traditional high price level. These are professional profiteers who do not belong to the addict scene.
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Oslo ARBEIDERBLADET in Norwegian 25 Sep 80 p 9
[Tcxt] Oslo and the Ostland area in general are no longer the only ports of entry for narcotics entcring Norway. “We have a number of examples of smuggling routea that go directly from the continent co places like Sorland, Vest- land and North Norway,” the chief of the national central narcotics division, Police Inspector Arne Huuse, told NTB [NORWEGIAN EESS AGENCY].
There have also been other marked changes in narcotics supplies. The price paid for drugs in this country is remarkably high compared with the prices in the rest of Europe. This makes Norway attractive to the more professional. suppliers who don’t belong to the drug abuse scene themselves.
NTB has learned that several recent cases provided clear indications that international narcotics rings have their own contacts in Norway. In the past it w more coinon for Norwegians to travel to the big narcotics centers to buy drugs. At the same time the addict milieu has become more brutal. atid harder for the police to penetrate.
Although heroin sales are now a daily occurrence throughout the country the smuggling of hashish is still widespread. According to the police there are strong indications that a new “hash wave” has arrived in this country. Hashish is the drug young people usually come in contact with first.
PoIicc tnpector Huuse also said that the police are noting a rise in the supp1ie of cocaine which is mainly smuggled in from the cultivation areas in South America via Spain to the rest of Europe. Morphine and speed (aniphetamines) are still being sold extensively.
Police Inspector Arne Huuse said Tuesday that they are noting a substantial r.ducttcn in the price of heroin because suppliers from Iran, P.kistan and Afghanistan are trying to outcompete Chinese heroin syndicates in an effort to knock them out cf the European market altogether.
“1 am not ruling out the possibility that this could affect the narcotics situa11n in Norway. A price war with heroin being sold at prices far below normal increases the risk that more addicts will, go over to the dangerous drug,” said Iluuse.
In Denmark the price of heroin has gone down to 1000 kroner per gram. In this country, by comp&rison, the price is ten times that. One gram provides 32 doses each costing 3-400 kroner.
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(:AN(; OF THAI, SWED1 SF1 DRUG SMUGGLERS C11ARGED
Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 16 Sep 80 p 12
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[Text 1 A Thai and Swedish drug ring managed to sell heroin worth over 10 militon kronor on the Stockholm market before being exposed. Six This and four Swedes were indicted Monday by prosecuting attorney, Bernt Adamsson of Stockholm’s District Court. The heroin was smuggled in specially made ghoes. A large portion of the profit was deposited in Swiss banks.
One of the principle figures, a Thai, began smuggling heroin to Sweden back in 1978. He wns in collusion with a shoemaker in Bangkok who “sewed” the heroin shipments into newly made platform shoes.
Lt wa in 1978 that of 400 grams. Over port at a Lime. Tn Copenhagen to Arlanda.
the Thai and a fellow—countryman smuggled in the first shipment 6 kilograms of heroin was smuggled to Sweden in this manner, a most cases the courier traveled by air from Bangkok by way of
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This May, two of the Thai couriers were apprehended. They were attempting to smuggle 70,000 kronor out of the country, a part of the profit from sold narcotics. They tud hidden the money in a cigarette carton.
Otw or those arrested had smuggled part of the profit to Switzerland. It is supvrted that hundreds of thousands of kronor have been deposited into accounts there. One of the couriers bought a gold bar, which was placed In a Swiss afe—depoBit box. It has been delivered to the police here.
The contacta In Sweden were two Swedes who distributed the drugs to solvent bAyers.
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I)rugH valued at over a million kronor have been confiscated. The ring leader’s profitH from the drug sales are estimated to be around 800,000 kronor. For this reason the prosecuting attorney has reque8ted that the sale of the Thai’s row house hi Sigtuna be prohibited. When the manes house was searched, 38,100 kronor In cash and a bankbook with tens of thousands of Icronor on deposit were found. It is believed that those closest to the ring leader made at least 400,000 kronor. Bankhooki, gold watches, a gold medal and a gold bar have been confiscated.
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With confessions from several of the gang members and physical. evidence, the prosecuting attorney has enough material so that all the gang members will be convicted. The ring leaders may expect long prison sentences.
I’lw prosccutor will requesr that all the Thais be deported.
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COURT (;IVIs STT1 SENTENCES TO TURKISH DRUG SMUGGLERS Stockholm SVENSKA DAGETDET in Swedish 11 Sep 80 p 4 lArticle by Ciaen von Hofsten]
ITexti Last Wednesday the sentences of both principle figures in the Turkish drug ring tlitt vas exposed last winter in Stockholm were upheld by the Svea Court of Appe.1s. According to the sentences, 36—year—old Naif Durak and 27—year—old ‘revf 1k Seker will serve 10— and 9—year prison terms respectively before being permanentLy deported from Sweden.
The other three main figures in the ring, which smuggled 8.5 kilogiams of heroin Into Sweden, had their sentences reduced somewhat. One had his sent?nce reduced from 8 to 7 years in prison and another received a reduction from 6 to 5 years. ‘rhe third member had his 8—year sentence upheld but was spared the deportation wntence handed dowu by the district court.
The court of appeals felt that since he had come to Sweden as a child and had attended school primarily in Sweden, then in accordance with the new alien laws he should he considered sufficiently adjusted to Sweden that he should remain here even if he Is guilty of crimes.
The (Ilatrirt court concluded in its sentence that the five should pay the state a toLol of 3.8 million kronor, corresponding to the profit made in the heroin trade. The court of appeals reduced the sum to 2.2 million kronor, although only a half million has been secured. The court of appeals decided that the state would pay the extensive court costs.
Altogether, 19 people in the ring have beers sentenced. One of them will requent a new trial in the near future. Among other things, he was convicted of once having smuggled 3.7 kilograms of heroin into the country. He confessed to this under interrogation, but he later withdrew his confession and has subsequently c1cnId conwnttting the crime.
lie U1HO appealed the conviction, but the court of appeals also convicted him of smuggling. After the conviction had gained legal force, this same smuggling episode came up in connection with the trial of the five gang leaders. It was ileemød proper to divide up the trial of the 19 into separate trials.
Even If the request results in a new trial and an acquital, the man will probably not escape punishment. In addition to smuggling, he was also convicted for posseasiug 1 kilogram of heroin and for illegal firearms possession.
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tock1iolm SVE4SVA DAG8!DET in Swedish 23 Sep 80 p 4
[Thxt 1 At least 10 years’ wages——this was what the drug smugglers earn2d for one trip from Bangkok to Stockholm and back. The heroin was smuggled in hollow platform shoes. Money was smuggled on the return trip.
This revealed when yet another drug ring was brought to trial Monday at Stockholm’s District Court. The gang members are accused of a total of 17 drug smuggling trips to Sweden with heroin from Thailand. It is estimated that they have brought a total of 5 kilograms of heroin worth many millions to drug users in Stockholm.
A nrly mi last fall the police received an anonymous tip from Thailand that two 1111,114 wit ii business In the Stockholm region were involved in heroin trade.
After half a year of surveillance, the police believed that the time was right to step In. A Thai couple that had arrived in Sweden several days earlier was i)pprehcncle’d as they were about to return by plane from Arlanda. They had hidden [50,000 kronor in a package of toys.
riie money was apparently a partial payment for delivered drugs. The arrest at Arlanda was soon followed by others in the Stockholm region. By Monday a total of ten persons had been charged.
‘rilC giunp, leader in Thailand entrusted the smuggling missions only to his relatives ind lovers. The payment was 50,000 kronor plus spending money. An average worker’s wages in Bangkok is 4.000 kronor per year.
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