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WORLDWIDE REPORT _
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUG3 -
_ (FOUO 19/84).
- CONTENTS PAGE
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
New South Wales Co~iseion Probea Drug Activities
(THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 19, 21, ~6 Feb 80) 1
Travel Agency Director Questioned
Former Manager Queationed
State MP Teatifies
Federal Drugs Commiaeion Heare Witnesses ~
(THE COURIER-MAIL, 20,21 Feb SO) 6
Testimony on 'Milligan Syndicate' .
~ Queensland Syndicate Alleged
- Gov~rnment Urged To Release Details of Drug Conspiracy
(Jenny Small; THE AUSTRALIAN, 29 Feb 80) 8
Sydney Paper Reporta Concern Over BarbiCurate Abuse
(THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 25, 27, 28 Feb 80) 10
Kings ~rosa Doctor's Statement,
by Graham Williame
= Hea1Ch Miniater's &emarks
Support by Ph~rmacists
Briefa .
Marihuana Farmer Remanded 13
Perth Drug Theft 13
Planes for Surveillance 13
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CONTENTS (Continued)
~ Svidence in Weat German Case 13 �
Drug Puahera Warned 14
Drugs in Tires ~ 14 `
Jail for Heroin 3ale 14
BURMA -
Briefs
Opium Seizure in Lashio 15
Heroin Haul in Mandalay 15
FIJI
Briefa
Airgort Drug Haul 16 ~
Auatralian Jailed 16
LAOS
Uae of Herbal Medicinea in Curing Oudomesi Addict Described
(SIANG PASASON, 1 Feb 80) 17
PAKISTAN
~ Briefa
FRG Delegation 19
30UTh KOREA
Government To Crackdown on Airoppon Traffickers
(Varioua sources, 22, 23 Mar, 5 Apr 80) 20
Ministry's Deciaion
Instruction to the Pusan Dietrict -
'ROREA TIMES' Editorial _
Seven Arreated
THAILAND
Aeroin Arreat in Chieng Mai
(TAWAN SIA~i, 8 Mar 80) 23 '
Briefs
Jailed Auetralian Acquitted 24
Heroin Seized in Phuket 24
CANADA
Young People Warned Againet ~oreign Drug Offensee
(Jim Robb; THE CITIZEN, 5 Mar 80) 25
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CON~'ENTS (Continued)
_ Expert~ Claim Drug Abuae Among High School Students Growing
- (THE GLOBE AND MAIL, 25 Mar 80) 27
B:iefe
Marihuana Seized Zg
Cocaine Trafficking Sentence 2g -
Major Drug Ring Cracked 28
Drug Furchaee Power Needed-RCMP 29
. Police S~ize Druge, Weapons 29
EAST EUROPE
_ YUGOSLAVIA
Briefa
Medicine Abuae 30
FRG Hashiah Smuggler 30
Somali Hashish Peddler 30
dpium Sellers 30
Heroin Seized on Border 31
Narcotics Uae on Slovenia 31
Drug Peddlera on Trial 31
LATIN AMERICA
- BRAZIL
- Briefs
Drug Trafficker Arreated 32
CHILE
Briefs
Drug Traffickera Arrested 33
VENEZUELA
Colombi.an Cocaine Z'rafficker Arreeted
(EL UNIVERSAL, 16 Mar 80) 34
� Briefa
International Connection 35
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IRAN -
Briefs
Opium Plantations Destroyed 36
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CONTENTS (Continued)
SUB-SE,HARAN i~F~ICA -
SENEGAL =
Experte Note Conaiderable Drug Abuae in Africa ~
(LA SEMAINE l~,FRICAINE, 7-13 Feb 80) 37
WEST EUROPE
~ BELGIUM
Briefa
- Anti-Drug Brigade Chief Freed 39
FRANCE
Drug Enforcement Problems Diacuased
(LE FIGARO, 11 Feb 80) 40
Drug Statietice: Summary for 1979
(LE FIGARO, 21 Feb 80) 42
Efforte To ~reak Vincennes Drug Network Resiated
(Jean-Marie Pontaut; LE POtNT, 10 Mar 80) 44
~ Haehieh Seizure, Heroin Laborat~~ry Pri~on &entences
(LE FIGARO, 15 Feb 80) 46
Briefe
Mulhouse Aashiah Seizure 47
SWEDEN
Book Describes Suscese of Tr~atment Center, Program
(Ingalill Osterberg; I~U4WDSTADSBLADET, 22 Feb 80) 48
Police Seek ~Iew Lawa To Penetsr::e Drug Smuggling Ringa
(SVENSRA DAGBLADET, 4 Mar 80) 52
- Briefs
School Drug Dealera 54
Narcotica Police Operationa Abroad 54
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NEW SOUTH WALES COMMISSION PROBES DRUG ACTNITIES
'I`ravel Agency Director Questioned
Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 19 Feb 80 p 2
[Texi;] Father Edward Brian Father O'L)wycr replicd that Septembcr 15 ao� an embarka.
O'Dwyei rejected a sug- t~~~s was completely unwc and tion on�September 19, ]97R.
gestion put to him in tZ1e ~hat � no evidence 6ad been Aqother ~tamp showed an
given to support the sug- arridai. at Bangkok on Septem-
NSW Royal Commission ~~~i;~,n. , bcr ?z, t 978. -
into Drur Trafficking yes- ~~-;irlier. Mr Gylcs qucstioned 1~(r Gyles: Do ~you now re-
terday that evidence could f~ather O'Dwyer about overseas call that you did fly'from Syd-
jloillt to Itis involvement in trips he made in 1978. ~~y pp ~ntas flight 1 depart-
dtug dealiTlg. ReferrinA to a trip in Aug- ing Sydney o~ Scptertlber 13,
Father O'Dwyer also dc- ~at year, Mr Gyles asked 1978, ditect to .London?
nied that hc had conducted "'h~ Father O'Dwyer had Fa~her O'Dwyer: Until this
cscorted a group of tenpin moment, whon you pointed it
a"transaction" in a Sydney bowlers to Siogapore whcre aut to me; I had forgotten. -
hotcl with Warren Fcllows, thcre was a hotel booking for Father O'Dwyer sgid the dc-
who is facing drug charges him for nine days, yet had
in 7'hailand. returned to S dne two ~da s t~~s about the trip~to~i,ondon,
latcr. ' Y Y Y W~ich were also miuing' from
Mr R. V. Gylcs, ~C, coun- an carlier recotd of intetview,
sel assisting thc commission, Father O'Dwyer answered ha~' not been ~ conscioti~lyr'.
was quesdoning Father that he had not wanted to be omitted.
O'Dwyer during his third day dWay on a Sunday, the most After further questioning,
in the witness box, important working day for Mr Gyles.said: "The seque~ice
Mr Gyles suggcsted that of events which to~ok place in:
_ one conclusion that could He said his recollection of a August, Sepcember and .Octo-
came from the evidence, with- ~rip in September, 1978, was ber, 1978, is capable af the
out himself makinR the impu- that he had travelled from construction that you and 11~
tation, was that Father Sydney to Singapore to Bang- Dole (a ditectpr ,~of I~ings
O'Dwyer had knowingly per- kok, to a place in Thail~nd 'Ik,avel) we~e 7nvalvQd in de~l-
mitted ~and participated ~n tlie called P~ttaya, back to Bang- �ing with~ w,7iiAm ~Sinclai;. and
use of Wings Travel Pty Ltd kok, to Singapore and home ot}~ers concerning �rugs, What
by those concerned with drug to Sydney. . would you say?" ~
tra6icking. Mr Gyles: Father, did you Father O'DWyeri The sug-
[The commission has been go to England on that trip? gestion is completely uetrue.
- Cold that Wings Travel, the Father O'Dwyer: No. I,deny it ~completely.
travel company of which If you had, you would not '~J~der ~fd cIrcutn.ttances was
- Father O'Daryer is a director, have forgotten?-I would have he involved in any way with
was used by drug smugglers to be certain. dn~gs and when theSe matters
for trips overseas and that 114r Gyles then read from had come to his attetftion he
another founding director, en'tries in Father 0'Dwyer's had immediately gone,:to 'the
1'Villiam Sinclair, is in Thailand passport, which showed an ppiipe, he stid.
facing drug charges.] arrival at Heathrow Airport on ~I~r Gyles .~~showed � fiather
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O'Dw}~cr dctails of allegations "He was a charming man
that a transaction had taken withou4 drink, but with drink -
placc hetween Warrcn Fellows was a very belligerent and dif-
an~i another pcrson at the ficult mpQ;' he said.
Captuin C'ook Hotcl in Kent Siaclak . had . claimed he
Strcct. "coul'd ~eC thitt~s'done."
_ I~;,thcr 0'Dwycr dcnied he , S~pF~ ~Q~ .y~en involved
was the person refcrred to in ~o~ py~ , to ~e,~i'teqd liorol lic-
ther~e allegations. He also d~ qp~e; ~ d~~y ~~~'gob Evans.
nied that hc was the person AppatenUy . 4 nup~lier of
- mcntioned if the transaciion hotels iprBdmain beiod8ed to
_ had. taken place in the Dum- Governnient suthnrities and
barton Castle Hotel, also in were tenanted~ .9n a weekly
Kent Strcet. basis::~T#~ object was to obtain.
He had never met Fellows. bettu ~teUtue. :
Dnring yesterday'S proceed- � ~
ings FaWer O'Dw}+er, said that . It wa~" often a matter of
William Sinclair was a"Dt complaint by Mr Evans that _
Jeky~l and Mr Hyde" person- Sit~clair was not able to
ality. achicve any reenlts' iq this re-
Aard, he said:
Former Mana,ger Questioned
~ydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 21 Feb 80 p 9
[Text]
A wltiACSS told thC NSW Earlier, Mr Gyles had of justice, he said.
Ro al Comn~ission into Dru questioned Mr Wilson about Mr Gyles a~ked lvlr Wilson
Y 8 t~e, issuing oF a receipt for a. whether he was concerned that -
'traflicking yesterday that ticket on the ariana which was a number of people he drank
- he had some fears about paid for by'William Sinclair. with at the Sackville Hotel at
~iving evidence to the Com- Sinclair had not supplied Ihe Rozellc had criminal histories.
�m'tssion bccause of tiome uF ~~a~~~~'~~s nama Mr Gyles: Did it ceuse any
Mr Wilson suid Sinclair hud conarn that you had been in-
thc othcr people invulved in npt inatPucced hfm co disguise troduce~ to theee people by Mr
the inquiry. + rhe identity of the traveller. Sindlair, your bos~, and that
Mr Wilson said he had not tbese people availed themselves -
'I he former ' managcr of hcud, imtil told by police, a with regularity of the services
V1'ings '1'ravcl, btr lan WilWn, Suggestion that William Sinclair of Wings Travel7
w;~s asked by Mr R. V. Gyles, ~ou~d organisc false passporls Mr �Wilson: Not that many
(1(', cuunul :issisting Ihe com- ~r h~~.any contacts in the Im- people there usmd Wings. ~
mission, whether he had any ~~adon Department. He agreed that two men,
fear~ about disclosing matters He had not heard that Mur= Mark Wheady and Marty -
to the commission. ray Riley had any contacts in Olsen, travelled a lot with the
"With rcgard lo the other ihe Immigration Department. company.
gentleman I do," Mr Wilson After the lunch adjournment, He had not he2rd that a Lc~
~~d' the Royal Commissioner, Mr Dance and Olsen had been ar-
'It is something no one likes Justice Woodward, asked Mr ~'ested in relation to a very
~ going through - with the Wilson if h~ had eeen anything large number of typewritera.
names concerned - after read- during ?~e course of the pro- Mr Gyles: Were you ever told
ing ;t bit about these people." ceedin~s tb make him uneasy. that Dance and Olsen were one
Mr Gyles; Has it caused you Mr Wilson: No, your of the twb top teams of thieves
to be u little less than frank to Honour. in Sydne~7
thc invesiiFators and to me? Mr Justice Woodward: I can Mr Wilson: No.
1~tr Wilson: I am not awarc assure you if yoa are fright- Mr Gyles later, asked if Mr
of not having being frank or ened, thgt is a matter that I will H'~~san recaqed an~y discussion -
honest. take seriously. We can't have at t6e Sackville Hotel at the
"I'he oommission has been the administration of justice time of ch,e Scate election in
tolJ that 'VVings Travel was interfved with by t6uggery. ] 978 that there might be "some `
uved by drug smuggters for Tlu commission h'ad at its trouble at polls in Balmain."
trips overscas and that a found- disposal the services of all Mr Wilson r-plied that he
ing director, William Sinclair, is police forces in Australia to use had not.
in Thailxnd on drug charges. against thugRarv in the intereats
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Alr Juriirc W~~Jw~~~ i.c- rntlonn fnr liconcci mlRhl Ife
1e~1ed an applicaliort by counsrl ~ooked xt with greater scrutiny.
represcnting a wilncss. Mr Rob- After readina thc Herald re-
crt Rolla Evans, thc licensee af Po~~ Mr Justice Woodward
ihe Dumbarton Casde Hotcl in s~d: "I aappose it dependa on
the City, that 111r Evan's name tha way you look at it. -
and placc of business remain `I ~~t auggesting it is s
cunfidential for the time being, fair re~ort on the evidence
Dr ]ohn Ryan, representin� S~~en. It'may be that {t para-
hir Evans, aaid there had ai- P~'ased evidcnce ~iven without -
rridy been publicity in ~he any regard to the spirit of the
press regarding his client. ev~dence.
A report in yeslerday's "it may be seen to be fair. I
Herald wtiich said Edans and don't see it a~ suoh. ~
hlurray Stewart Riley had "Aa 1 re~d it, it infers that
made a trip to Singapore on the these two people lravelled
same flight and stayed at the together, in each other's
same hotel was misleading, Dr company. That may have been
- kyan said. the fact but there has been no
As Mr Evans was the licens- evidence of it yeL" -
ee of a p~+~lic house, the public- This would not in itself in-
ity migni mean future appli- duce him lo make thc order re-
quested.
State MP Testifies
Sydney THE S`IDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 26 Feb 80 pp 1, 2
(Text ) ]VIr Roger Degen, State MP for Bal- Hotel in Kent Street. The hotel was owned
main, denied yesterday that he had by the Mar~time Services Board. -
shown "a more than usual prepared- Mr Degen said he forwarded a letter -
ness" to do favours for William Sin- from Mr Evans to the Deputy Premier (Mr _
clair, now facing drug chazges in Jack Ferguson) in 1977. -
Thailand. He agreed. hE had desctibed Mr Evans
to the Deputy Premier as a personal friend
A;+pcaring as a witness at the NSW Royal even though he had met him only twice
- Commission into Drug Trafficking, Mr and hc was not a constituent.
Dcgcn also d sagreed with the suggestion Mr Deg~n agreed with the suggcstion
that he had served Sinclair's requcsts "above that he l~ad made the approach at Sin-
and beyond the call of duty." clair's .equest and not Mr Evans's aad it
It was revealed during proceedings yester- was "probably the wrong choice of vlords"
day that Mr Degen was the man who has to call Mr Evans a personal friend.
becn referred to onl~ as CB on several All the hotels owned by the MSB had
occasions during the previous questioning later been put on similar !~nures to brewery -
of witnesses. hotels.
- Mr Degen told the Commission yester- Mr Degen tola the commission Sincl~ir
day that he had first met William Sinclair had also approached him about the rezoning
. when Sinclair was public relations officer for of some land at Vineyard, near Windsor,
Leichhardt Council in 1975. owned by Father O'Dwyer. The rezoning
Since then Sinclair had approached him ~quired the consent of the Planning and
sceking assistance on two occasions, once Environment Commission.
on behalf of Mr Robert Evans and the He had asked the Minister for Planning
other time for Father Edward Brian and Environment (Mr Landa) if he could
O B~er~r Evans and Father O' ~r ~~k at it and the minister's reply~ bad been
- that the priest s proposal evas as dead as
have appeared before the Commission and a dodo."
- denied allegations that they havt bCen The minister had agreed to give the news
involved in drug traflicking.] personally to Father O'Dwyer.
- ~Ot6~ ~eBS@ Mr Degen disagreed that it wa~ unusual ~
to discuss the Vineyard bnsiness with a
~or lieensee priest in a hotel rathar than in his electorate
office or !is office at Pazliament House.
Sinclair had asked Mr Degen'a help in iv1r Degen said Sinclair had also asked
obtaiaing a more secure lease for Mr him to help his son Greg, who planned to
Evans. the liceneee of the Dumbarton Castle build a seafood restaurant on t~e water-
front in Sydney.
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~ 7'he rotereece, whic~i tva~ ten- tStae
tha ~Man) Smitb, i~adina ~
, ~r-� ~ dend. NW that Scifteet's u- Sydney cdminal who u ttbw ia ;
H� had m.i Grei Sincletr and titud~ A~d unde~aone m m~rked juil ie Victori4.
" ��~n b~ had oom~ to know chaa~e over tlfa previeus 11- M~ Qylee: Did you feel my '
~a Artlfuc Stiniey Smitd ~t DI- momh period and he wa~ a cmburraament obout ~dmItdn~
mltri'i Rataurant in Cleveland trusud employe~ nt We Balmoin any associstion wtt6 Stonley Joi~n '
StrMt, ~t?d later Qone with them W~~ CompanY, owned ~by Srt+~ith?
b m~t Siaci~ y'r Kaior in A Daate! herick Cisey. �who bu Mr en: In view ot tha ra
Pidda~toa Hotel. " alrm~dy appeued bdore t6e cent pub 't it ha~ not doae
.Witliaa~ Sinclair h,d tu{~esced Conuntubn. eae any , a.
h~~'(Mr po~en) mijht be able Mr Dtpn'deaied th~t he h~d ~?1r Gyles aai~d that Mr DeQea . .
to � ptovid~ � ~s~IsWnee with vari- ut out to ~iv~ the impression ha~ ~n charYed twice oa the
otq joverttment depanmenta but h~d worlced at Balmain one day with consortia~ with
La 6ad not aude any approaches Weldina for 12 months when he Geor~e Thelander. Mr DeQen
on Groa Sinclair's behait. had only wor~ed thero a mattar uid he believed he had not , ~
Questioaed, Mr �De~an s~id of waks and that he had exaII- ~1U8~~Y~ ~en charQed. �
be had wcitten rcfuences oa 8crated,what Mr C~sey 6ad tdd At another sta~e of yesterday';
faor accitions over a 12-ycar � him about Sciflat bein~ a jood hearin~. Mr G~les said Mr
period fa people facia~ criminal worker� DeQea had been uked a number
c6at`es. Thae had included ~1tr Gyles Poiated wt tbat ~j 9uections about people who '
Arthur Stanley (Neddy) Smith, ScifleSR had left the employment 6ad reasonably active criminel:?
~LES' Danca and a man called .uf B~(itian Weldina s short time ~ords." �.t
WReatley.. � later. . ! sug~est Mr Dance, Mr
Olsen, Geor~e Thelander, Arthur ~
- In. eulid evidence Qance 6ad Mr , LeQen told the Com- ~~ey Sm~th, Mr SciEleet u?d
beea described to the commiss- mission he had had a 20-year Mr Delaney;' Mr ~yles said.
ion a~ a member of one of the acsociation wirh a Mr Bruce ^Did it ever cross your mind ' '
_ t~vo top teama o~ thieves in Syd- Hardin. He admitted that he ~it the public may be concerned . ~
aey. koew Mr Hardin ran a casino to see you were consortin~ witn ;
Mr De n ssid Smith had ~n Sydney but he had never
active criminals. .
approach him in the Sackvitle been there: . Mr Degen repleed: "I met~ I
Hotel. it Rozelle about ~"No Ref~trin~ to t6e casiao, Mr thea~ very infrequently. These
$itl" ~pplication he had. befors Gyles aaid: "Do yoa not under- �,~~s took place in a hotel in' ~
t~6' eouR, etand tHere we~+ a long�sundinA ~e middle of my constituency.^ -
'~'he only other as~ociadon he association between that IIam~ The Sackville Hotel wae known.:
haa rrith Smith w~s when ha and Lutnie McPheroon? u tbe ALP hotel in the ara. ' `
dtqw a friend, Erir Delaney. hir Degen rcplied, "No." After more question~, the ~ ~
. tb $aitb's Louea to seuk a.bec. Mr Gytes: Did' Herdin ever Rayal Cammissioner, Mr lustice
'I1fe bowe had been equipped mention . Stanley ~John Smith. ' Woodward asked; "Doe:it occur. ; ~
- vritb aurvetllance cameras but D1cPhenon or Georae Freem4n? to you that by drinkinQ with
lte htd not quationeJ Delaney :.~ir Deaen: I have never he4rd these people in a hael you may ;
_ ~b~out thii. him. have left yourself open to .the =
Mr R. V. Gylee, QC, counsel h1r DeQen rejected a eu~get� accusetion you were ,consortin~',.
_ ie~iidn~, the Commis~ion, reter- tion bY Afr Gylp that he had with active crirtiinais?"
red to a chtncter reference Mr ~ been Isu than frank to Com- ~ Mr Degen replied: "Yes."
De ea ~ad wriuen tor Edward mission invatigatora about his The commission . aill~ reaiune ~
S~.. . . . . _ . , . aasociatiou ,~vith Stanley Joha on l~darch 6. ~ -
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AUSiRALIA
FEDERAL DRUGS COMMISSION HEARS WITNESSES
Testimony on 'Milligan Syndicate'
Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English w0 Feb 80 p 2 -
[Text] A Federol Police ~af- Mi' C~drlc Hamp;on, Q.C. knew at the time to be in a file
CotiCi in~eftigator told ~~~1 ~~~g the Commis- Was National Party Senator
don: He w~s the go-betpeea Glen Shiel.
the Williarn� Rorol Com- ~~pp~n ~w~n and Commis- "Another agent ��olfl me that
Itfi~tiOn on drllgt yester- sioner Lewis? Senator Shiel's name wes in a
d~? that t@DiOr po~iCe O'~onnor: The Police Com- file. I have not read tlze file,"
hed assittid aCGUSed ~~net'� O'Connor aaid.
~e b 8!, Off d~Y Mi' Iieaipaon: And Superin- The commissioner, N[r Jus-
- P~p 9 ~ tendent NLurphy? tice Willlams, said thst the
Cha~gli. O'Connor: Yes. senator appeared on the file
Brian Michael O'Connor, for- Mr Hampson: And the Jus- only aa havin~ given a c;harac- -
merly an investigaLor with the tice Minister7 ter re~erenoe for a,fr~end of a
disbanded Federal Narcotica . O'Connor: I can't remember P~rson ~rho had been "looked
Bureau, told the cmnmisalon he hearing the Juatice Miniater at" by the bureau.
belleved thst Q former Queena- ~entioned. "I do not know of any politt- -
iand pollcemsn was s member ~A~ carlier hesringa of the ~ns p~teotin~ criminsls,"
~t tha drug eyndicate ot John commlaalon the, dustice Mln- ~'~ot~nor e41d,
EQwesd Mi111gan. ~Ster, Mr Lickisa, the Pollce O'Oonnor e~id that b~e had
Commiealoner, Mr Lewia, ths aD~en to the reporter about
~~There ie no doubt that he Bribbane Metropolitan C.I.B. Poutlclana for onlg "secoA.ds."
= still has connectfo.~as with ee- superintendent, Mr Murphy Ees'lier s senlo7r P'ederal Po-
nior pollce," O'Connor said. ~d Glen Patrlck Hallahan 1~ce investigator snd 1'ormer
"And there is no doubt that empfis~7calfy den1ed A~g~ Narcotics Bureau agen~:, Mr
they had helped people get off allegationa.) ' D. J. 9chramm, said th.at he
chdrges," O'Connor said. p~~~ aaid that he be- had "bugged" a room ia the
Milligan was anested in Syd- lieved the7ne would lzave been a sYdney Customs House where
ney on September 10 last year fu~Lher investlgatlon futo Mil: M 111 i g a n was being inter-
on heroin trafficking charges. ~gn~8 ~~8, . rogated by Mr Daniel James
O'Connor said that a senior Scullian, then the bureaii's in-
'Z undbtatsnd that 1t wea formation and intelli en~ce di-
N a r c o t 1 c s Buresu officer B
- named Douglas ghobbrook, who a~l~ndad becanse Lhe Royal rector.
interviewed Milligan in Sydney CO~~~a ~~t The bureau's director, Mr
after his arrest,~oId~hlm t5at ~gqt0n m~~ Harvey Bates, decided o:n this
Milflgan had implicated a for- 4~~~ aaid. procedure because Milliga,n had
mer Queensland police officer, O'Coemar said that he was a told Mr Shobbrook Y.e he~d m- -
Glen Patrick Hallahan. aource of informatton for a re- formatlon to give.
rt ublished in The Courier- After Milligan had be~m in-
I waa told that Milllgaa asid ~ail on November 8 last year, ~I'~'~ewed over three daya, �Mr
that FIallahan had ~ provided headed "Politicians linked to Bates had dismissed much oi
- some oi the finance, he eaid. , a~hat Milli a
"He was an internnediary be- ~'ug rings.' B~ had asi~i, the
tween Milligsn and eome oth- He had mentioned "peliti- commf~elon he;.rd.
~ cians" to a reporter but the The inquiry will cnntlr.iue to-
ers.' only politicfan whose name he dgy
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QueenalatYi Sy~dicate Alleged
Briabane Ti~ COUR~R-MAIL in ~glieh 21 Fsb SO p 2
[Tsxt] A heroin importing syr~dicate oparsting in Queenalarid xaa bigger than ~
~ ths eo-called Milligan Group~ s Federal Police drug investigator told the
� Federal Royal Commission on D:.~vga yestezda~y.
Brisn Micha,el 0'Connor, a former aenior investigator with the nox-disbanded
Federal Narcotics Bureau~ said he did not believe ar~y one big group controlled
- At:o`~alia's drug trade. -
E: ~~7 dapi't 'lniaa? o~ ~f~ 61~tted Tuma. aid he T
f asyor tYndJcate, there'1 r~ DT1le~Cwuler~Ma11~
~are s numbe! Of SYndl' ,
c~ies;' O'Connor told 1Kr. : ~t the reporter's home oa.
' C e d r i c Htunpson, RC. ~ Navember 7 last year. ,
- f , But he iatd be ~n?s not,
. c o n n s e 1~tinA tta
_ , 4bmmiuloner, Mr Ju~- h e."t e c;o a d s~ent";
#~oe E. 8. WiWoma. 4uoted la sn srtick.
~ h e s d e.d "PoHticlsna
� I
a r~
t t
o n W Q
u~
a
s- , � t t n l c
e d t
o d n~ T~"
- .syndicate lar~er 1. ZLaat "a
yltahed 'thE followin~ I
~:.~[W1~an'e.~~ ! � "I raa6 him becsuse I ~
[John �dward Milli- wsa upaet that then had
p?n, artested in 8ydney ' ~ b e c n a1leQationa Lhat
iu SePtembEr lost yesr, . .:sgenW � of the ~~uresu ~
.told bureau irrveatigaWrs ' wsre c~~rupt, uninutll-
, ~thit ~o1lWcians and po-' ;~ent, nnd. lnept;' Turner' -
;~Iicp'~ter,e in~rolved in t2~e'i . aid. ~ �
�dru6�ttade 1n Qute~s-' ` ' i
- � .lawd.] "I d1d not. saY �that
f ' pepyle iTi hiQh ,places 1n : _
- On 'I1~esday O'Connor ~1 atates were involved �
_ ~ iold the commtssioa he. in the drua lrade," ho .
_ .dfd not kno~v.the gotiLi-~ �~said. ~ ~ : ;
_ ,�efiua fnvolvM 1::t dru~ �~~~I made' rio reference~ -
i-~�~iOA- to poiice' offictta, barrls- .
ptotection ot D~AU ~ tera~ ,snd aoliciWr~ alao+
volved tn ~ LtafficL- ~ ~ing implic~kd.
1~. , . ~~And I did not saY thati
~ -
' YeaterdsY Ml' H~' narcotica control aould
~On.aslced about tlle~a-. ~ put back two years." i
;t3ons; that ~ atNor police , A former '~intelllQencE
?~h s d protected peopie officer" at the Briebane ~
ctsarged with dru~ o~- p~,~cotlcc Bureav offlce ~
r~~� j told the commission he~
, "Sa tbere any evidence, had held s file wlth the'-
apsrt from thAt irom namea of poACe anQ poli-
iMiIIiQan~ that�senior Po- ~ ticfana. ~ ~
:1ka h~?ve helped aome , . The ille, part of s con. ~
~netabErs ot . Miliigan'a� ' ~ t t n u 1 n Q invesEtgatton, _
'synNcste get off chsr;ea h� contalned the nsryes of s =
6hst theY should have not ~ ~~~ige � crosa-sectton of -
:~~off,." Mr Hamywn ~ the community � Peter '
, O'Cormor nplied: "Be~^~ L1oyd Hammond, now of;
the Federal Police, aaid. . ~
~ i o: e s n e w e r i n g thst~� . The investigation was'+ _
'quqtion. .i ~ould aslc,, �~into a restaurAnt oaner.=
. ~ ttfat it, be hesrd in cam-.,~ ~ 6uspected of havta8 -
~ ~ ' connectlon w?th the drug ~ '
1 He 'com~leted his evi- ! tradc.
~ dence in closed aeasioa' ~ The commlasiori h~a:
i-' Anotper farmer 6ureau ~ ~ ~~ouriud Lo a ciate;to bp
r.invastigator aow 1n the ~
~;P.1edEral PolfCe. Robert~ 1'~s,._ ..::.:Lrr~ .
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AUSTRALIA "
GOVERNt~NT URGED TO RELEASE DETAILS OF DRUG CONSPIRACY
Canherra TI-iE AUSTRALIAN in English 29 Feb 80 p 3
[Report by Jenny Small]
PRES5URE is mounting on the NSW Pre-
_ [Text] mier, Mr Wran, to table a police report de-
tailing the alleged involvement of key public
figures in a drug conspiracy. -
This follows disclosures in State Parlia-
- ment yesterday against the former NS~y
Police Commissioner, btr Mervyn Wood,
- which put him under "suspicion". -
Under systematic and constant attack b,y
- both Opposition parties, Mr Wran claimed
the NS~9 Solicitor-General, Mr Gregory Sul- ~
livan QC, had investigated the allegations
- and reported his suspicion that Mr Wood had
~ bentthelawto "oblige a friend".
Mr Wran told Parliament the police had .
fully investigated the incident, and he~ had _
asked the Solicitor-General and the Attor-
ney-General to report on the case.
Others rnentioned in the police report for
their alleged invulvement in the case last -
May, include the former Chief Stipendary
Magistrate, Mr Munay Farquhar, now head
of the P1SW Drug and Alcohol Authority, and
a Sydney~ la~vyer, Mr Morgan Ryan.
'The police report was prepared by the
present Assistant Commissioner of Police in
charge of cr'ime, Mr Cecil Abbott, after com-
plaints were made about the handling of
_ charges facin,g Roy Bowers Cessna and Tim-
othy Milner, after they were arrested cfuri~ig
- a reported $1.5 million drug seizure in Sydney
last March. -
The case was heard before Mr Farquhar
on May 15, but charges were listed for hear-
ing as a summary matter, which carried a
lighter sentence.
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~
,
Ml1neC was senteriCed to ernment had acted very prop-
18 months jail with a non�pa- er~~'� '
role period of ei~;l~t months, "We have been advised there
is no basis for praceedings and
while on May 'l4 ('e~sn~t was wP can @o no more than obtain
- placed on a goocl behavior first ot all the fullest inveati-
- twnd for 18 months and fined Bation by the Commissioner of
Police, Lhrough his officers
$75 for smoking lndian hemp and secondly, seek the advice
~ anci $2(1() fnr having att un- of the Solicitor-General," he -
licensed anlique pistol. S After a question iram the
~ T~iu�ing t.he li~ari?ig tl~e value Deputy Leader of the Opposi-
of the seizure was changed tton, Mr McDonald, asking
from 31.5 million to "some who gave verbal instructions
value" on the police fact sheet. to the head of Lhe prosecution
Mr Wran told Parliament it branch in the case to accept
was "common knowledge, that the plea to ~he lesser charge.
it is aileged that certain Mr Wran quo~~d from the
Solicitor-General's findings:
~ representations were made to ~~There is so much hearsay in
- the tormer Commissioner of the statements given and lack
_ Police, Mr Wood. by a firnt of of contemporary documenta-
solicitors, one of the principals tion by those concerned that
ot which is Mr Morga:~ Ryan". w�e can only be suspicious that
_ In t~is question the leader of the law was bent by the ex-
tl~e Country Party, Mr Punch, commissioner to oblige a
described Mr Ryan as Mr friend."
Wran's '�long-time friend and ~ Wran then said: "That's
- associate". the situation the Government "
But Mr Wran said this was has from the Sclicitor-Gener- -
"putting it at tao high a level", al's material, and I think
In relation to any question of that's as far as I can take it.
conspiracY. Mr Wran quoted ~~I'm not doing anyihing that
the Solicitor-General as say- arql interfere with any further
� ing that "in relation to Mr
- Ryan and Mr Wood I think ~~l~~ries or investigations."
the evidence is such that a He refused to refer the docu- .
tria! would result in a directed ment to the Royal Commission
_ acquiLtal wittiout the parties ~~o Druq TraffickinQ.
bein~; callcd upon to exptain ~ut he told members of Lhe
anvthing the,y have done". Opposltion that it ttiev l~ad
Mr Wran said the Solicitor- appropriate intormation
General continued to say that which would assist the Com-
"the tracks lead to Mr Farqu- ~ssioner of Police or Lhe
har which would demonstrate Solicitor-General, tt~en they
complicity", should make arrangements to
- Mr Wran then said the Gov- see either Mr Lees or Mr Sul-
livan.
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_
AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY PAPER REPORTS CONCERN OVER BARBITURATE ABUSE
Kings Cross Doctor's S~catement
~ydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 25 F'eb 80 pp 1, 2
[Report by Graham Williams]
[Text] -
punk-rock generation arg us- "I refuse to prescriba baz-
A Kin s Cross doctor ~a ~em. It's a crazy situation biturates to anyone undcr 75.
g that they can obtaia such dan- They are often very ussful in
says he turns away seven or gerous drugs so oasily, helpiag old people get ta sleep
eighG teenagers a day seek- '`Becau~e bazbiturates are - but they can and are very
ing prescri~tions for dan- suc addictive drugs, the kids essily abuaed," the doctor said.
Rerous, addictive barbiturate get~ooked on them and they ~~ay ~e a very powerful -
- drugs. tend to overdose repeatedly. hypnotio'and depressant. When
Bazbituraies are now ane of the kida iaject them into th~ir
The doctor said that, based the comerstones of tho eex- eW~ow several at n
on his experience, large nura- drug street scene aad the Ume, the resalt ie often serious
bers of young people were affects are quite horrifying. reapiraW~y deprassion.
going araund doctore trying "A lot of young pecrple go ~~~ey often collapse with-
_ to per~uade them to prescribe araund ductors with very clev-
barbiturates, er, cuiming etaries to try to out roalising theq hava aver-
He has called on the Gov- talk them into prescribuzg bar- dO~' T~y ~ voaut and
ernment to restrict their a~ail- biturates, then Ureathe in their vomit and~
they caa die very quickly as a
ability because of the "terri- `"They come to me with r~yult."
fying problem of bazbiturate stor~es about how they have Ha said h~e had told the
abuse in the Cross." to work at night and they can't ~�alth Commission of i:~
"Bazbiturates aze our major sleep duuing the day. 'They ask =
drug problem and a frighten- for one of the bazbiturates by 1
w~.re~we lfl aware
of ait
ing numiser of yo~~ng peaple name,
aze overdosing on thetr be- "Invariably they say, 'Doc. But so far they had done na
cause they aze so dangerous tar, that's the only thing th t th
~ng.
- and the k.ids take so many," really works for me.' That~s It :s up to the commission
he said in an interview, always tbeir line, and the Government to act
The doctor, whosc name "I t~hink many doctors are 9uicacly and put barbiturates
cannot given for ethical ~en in by their stories quite on the same restricted classi-
reasons, said many young peo- innocently and they don't ficaUon as nazcotics and Man-
ple also traded in barbiturates. realise the implicatiana of pro- he said.
"More and more kids in the scribing such drngs: '
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- 7he ambulance now comes
"The hospitals are very about 20 times a week to the
concerned about barbiturate chapel to attend to young people
abuse. But so far nothittg has Who overdose, he said.
happoned. The Health ~om- Some of then overdose two
mission said it woi;,Fa ~.:..1 ~re~ timcs a wak. Barbitu-
someone u to talk to ma - rates are fiendishly addictive and
P once they're hooked, the kids
but that w.ts ten days ago and can't get off them.
, no one has come." '"They buiid up n tolerana to
Mr $iil Crews, director of them that brings them very close
the Crisis Centre at the Way- to a fatal dose. 'ThaPs why so
side Chapel, Kings Croas, said many of them are dying."
- several young people were Mr Crews said barbiturates, -
- earning up to $500 a week by obtainable on a ~octor's proscrip-
- trading in h~arbiturates in t6e ~~on. should be greatly restricted
- area. in availability and doctors should
They get hold of them in bot- be warned�of their consequences.
- tles of up to 50 and then sell He has found bottles of bar-
them for $I or S2 a pill.�Harbi- biturates containinG up lo SO
turates are the poor man's heroin tablets in the pocket~ of some
now. Prostitutes use them. A~I overdose victims.
the street kids seem to be using "Fifty tablets are worth up to
them. lt's appalling to see them S1U0 in the black�market -
come in and then kal over un- and a lot of people are trading _
conscious." in them:' he said.
Health Minister's Rema.rks
- Sydney THE SYDNEY P40RNING HERALD in English 27 Feb 80 p 10
[Text]
B:irbiturate abuse has increased in N5W
hccau~e of the Government's rescheduling of the
~ drug Mandrax, the Minister for Health, Mr
Stewart, said yesterday. �
"It would appear that sincd this Government re-
scfleduled Mandrax tablets, which were the source
oF ~ibuse previously, they have become rather limited
on the market and druy abusers �have turned to
barbiturates,� he said. � _
~tr Stewart said he had asked the Health Com-
mission for a report on barbiturate abuse and wauld
consider rescheduling barbiturates if he felt that
wuuld solve the problem. '
Rc,cheduling would inconvenience many people
��ho have b~rbituratw prescr~bed� for them for thera-
peutic purposes.
"f~his inconvenience would have to be balxnced
against the chaace of preventfng abuse of barbitu-
rates.
~Mr Stcwart said that in NSW in 1977 there were
138 deaths from barbituratep0 ~soning. In 1978, there
were 159 deaths and in 1974, 195 deaths.]
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Support by Pharmacists
5ydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 28 Feb 80 p 2
_ [Text] CANBERRA. -~mproper said he turned away aeven or
- use of barbiturates and 1'he a~ht teenagers a day saking
source of the drugs should be Pr7ecriptions far danQeroos+and i
investigated immediately, the addictive barbituratea.
Ealling for a study,. Mt
president of the � Pharma- gro~,t, ~sid: "If thate ie any. ir-
ceutical SocieRy oE Australi~, responaible behavioui amonY
Mr Ross Browq said yestCr- health profeasionals. we want
day. tou~h action tp stamp ~t out.
However; w~.beli~Ve that the
"Because of the appaTettt vaet paajori6~+ qf doctora and
extent of the ,problem, w~e er"s pharma ' ta are behavinQ very -
convinced that there muet i~e responsi~y in coettollin~. ,usage _
sourc~x of , sapply ot6er than barbitttrates" "
dcetots and kharmac~st$" .;~I~r :"~e Tharina~eiitico] Society
sa(d.' wanted to pertidp~tte 1e ~ con-
"Rnd we think it would be certed effort ~y health profes-
possibk to loc3te thaee ions aitd QoveCAdnent tb find the -
sou~ces." source of eupply of iaupreperly-
= Mr..Brown said that recent used druIIs and eliminate it,
reports indtcated that there had The NSW Drug and Akohol
been an alarming rise in drug Authority will. cooeider recom-
use. mending that bazbituratea � be
A Kings Cross doctor re- paced on t6e teme reebricted _
poned in the Herald t6it wa'k ec6edule aa narcotics.
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- 4._
AUSTRALIA _
BRIEFS
MARII~UANA FARMER REMANDID--A 2s-year-old man was remanded on custody in Central
Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on drug charges including one of possessing
$750,000 ~orth of marihuana. Nunzio Greco, a farmer~ of Bilbul, near Griffith~
- appeared before Mr Kevin Waller, S.M., on chaxges of possessing and supplying
Indian hemP and conspiring with others to grow Indian hemg at Griffith and
other places between November 1 la~t year..and January 30 this year.~ Greco .
was charged earlier with possessing and supplying Indian hemp at Londond.erry,
weat of Sydney, on January 30 this year. Earlier this month, Greco was grant-
ed bail of $200,000 but because he could not raise the surety he is being held
in custody until he appears in Coona,baxabran Court on February 26. [Text] -
[Sydney TI~ SYDNEY MORNING ~RALD in English 22 Feb 80 p 3]
PERTH DRUG THEFT--A young man stole a qua,ntity of drugs fro~: the Margaxet
River hospital early yesterday after threatening a nurse with a knife and a
screwdriver. The police deacribed the ma,n as being an Australian, aged be-
tween 20 and 25, of inedium height and slight build. He ha,d ehoulder-length
hair and the beginnings of a beard. jText] [Perth THE WEST AUSTRAi,~iv in
English 21 Feb 80 p 5]
PLANES FOR SURVEILLANCE--~anberras The Fedoral Government has taken delivery -
of a Nomad aircraft to be used in drug surveillance and detection work in
northern Queensland. The Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs, Mr Gar-
land~ said yesterday that the aircraft would be based at Townsville. Other _
Nomads for similar work would aoon be assigned to Part Hedland in WA and Dar-
win. [Text] [Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English 20 Feb 80 p 50]
EVII~NC~ IN WEST GERMAN CASE--A fingerp~int on a plastic wrapper found in a
marihuana haul in NSW in 1978 will be used in evidence in a case involving an
Australian arrested for drug smuggling in West Germany. A Sydney fingerprint
expert~ Detective-Sergeant Graham Rutter, discovered the ~int on one of
5,000 packe~s ~ontaining the marihuana xhich was in the form of cannabis r~sin.
_ He ha~ flown to Germany to give evidence. West German police allege that the =
man arres~ed~, Phillip Shine~ 27, was one of the ringl.eadere of a highly skilled
gang of amugglers who used camper vans to smubble drugs lnto the US, Europe
anci Austra,lia. [Faxcerpt] [Sydney T!~ SYDNEY MORN~NG HERALD in English 21 -
Feb 80 p 3] -
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DRUG PUSHERS WARNED--Drug pedlars convicted of serious offences could expect
~ail sentences approaching the maximum of 25 years~ the Chief Justice of South
Australia, Mr Justice King, warned yesterd ay. He said that in the past heroin -
dealers had been 3ailed for about s~ven y~ars but that those terms should not
be regarded as the norm. "It is important to remind all who might be tempted
to engage in drug dealing tha,t the maximum imprisonment fixed by law for the _
_ more serious types of drugs is 25 years' jail," Mr Justice King said. But the
Full Bench of the Supreme Court reduced from seven to five yeaxs the sentence -
on a man who had pleaded guilty to drug chaxges. Martin Pearce, 20, unemployed~ -
- of Port Augusta was sentenced in Port Augusta Circuit Court on January 14 to
seven years for selling a drug similax to ISD. Mr Justice King said the drug,
I~n4wn as STP, was more dangerous than cannabis but less harmful than heroin.
fic4ucing the jai.l sentence he said Pearce was not engaged in a big business,
was not seeking to make vast grofits and had no previous convictions.
~Excerpt] [Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN in English 20 Feb 80 p 3]
DRUG5 IN TIRE5--~lbout 50 kilograms of cannabis resin oil was found in the tyres
of a Mercedes-Benz cax~ the St James Court of Petty Session was told yesterday.
_ Two men, An~onios Hanna Khalife, 31, of York Street~ Fairfield and Maxchal
Toufic Sleiman Daoud, 29, of Alfred Street, Granville, were chaxged under the _
Customs Act. Khalife xas chaxged with importing cannabis resin in the form of
oil at Sydney between January 26 and February 14. He was chaxged also with
examined a qua,ntity oi oil at Sydney~ between January 26 and February 1~. [Sen- -
tence as published] Daoud was chaxged with possessing cannabis oil at Sydney
tween January 26 and February 14. Mr J. Joliffe, for the Commonwealth Crown
Solicitor, said that on Januaxy 26 a Mercedes-Benz car was imported into Au-
stralia from Cyprus. When the cax was later examined a quantity of cannabis
oil was found in the tyres. On Februaxy 14, after completing Customs and
quarantine formalities, Khalife drove the vehicle to the reax yard of pre-
mises rented by Daoud at Granville. A short time later the two removed the -
front tyres from the vehicle. Mr Joliffe said there was about 50 kilograms =
of cannabis resin in the tyres. [Excerpt] [5yd.ney THE BYPNEY MORNING HERALD
in English 16 Feb 80 p 25]
JAIL FOR HEROIN SALE--A young man who admitted selling heroin on the Gold ~
Coast was sentenced in the Criminal Court yesterday to two years' jail.
Mr Justice Hoaxe recommended that Stuart Norman Cooper be considered for pa-
role after six months. Cooper, ~0, a tiler, of Birmingham Road, Boonooroo
Paxks, Surfers Paradise, pleaded gyilty to having ha,d heroin for sale; ha,ving
had $1510 obtained from iche sale of heroin; and having had a set of scales
~ used to weight heroin. The Crown prosecutor~ Mr. K. J. 0'Brien, said drug
squad detectives ~uestioned Cooper at Surfers Paradise on May 12. They found _
_ a small packet containin~ heroin in Coopers' pocket. Cooper told them he had
bought 10 grams of heroin ~or $1100 in a northern New South Wales hotel a-
bout 18 days eviously. Cooper had said he had used some himself and sold
the rest for ~100 a gram. ~Excerpt] [Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in English
16 Feb 80 p 3] CSO: 5300
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BURMA -
BRIEFS
OPIUM SEIZURE IN LASHIO--Ran~oon, 10 Apr--~Customs officers seized raw
opium weighing two and thre~ quarter viss from a woman passenger on a
bus at the Hsipaw bus terminal in Lashio on 1 February. The woman iden-
tified as Ma Bauk Nue was handed over to police together with the opium.
Police booked her under Sections 6(b) (posseasion) and 7(b) (traneporta-
_ tion) of the Narcotic Drugs Law and sent her up for trial before Lashio
Township Court on 27 February. Sirnilarly on 13 February, police searched -
a man near Manluang Kyaung in Zashio and seized raw opium weighing four
and a half vies. The man was identif ied as Qik Zet of Station Road,
Katha, and according to the information given by him police further -
arreated two othere identif ied ae La Dwai an~ Ma Htu. They were eent up _
for trial before Lashio Townehip Court on 4 March.--NAB [Text] [Rangoon _
THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 12 Apr 80 p 8]
AEROIN HAUL IN MANDALAY--Mandalay, 3 Apr--A seriea of police raids in
Mandalay and Maymyo during the second and third weeke of March, yielded
heroin worth about K 70,000. The aearch party compriaed police officers
and Ward People's Councillors. On searching the house of Ma Kyi Ky1 Sein
on 80th Street (between 13th and 14th Streers), Pyilon-chantha Ward, Man-
dalay, on 14 March the police party seized heroin weighing about one pound
with a etreet value of K 5,000. Police also seized heroin weighing about
two and a half pounds with a atreet value of K 12,500 from one U Aung
Myint who visited Ma Kyi Kyi Sein's house on 15 March. [Text] [Rangoon
THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 8 Apr 80 p 8]
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I
FIJI
BRIEF'S
AIRPORT DRUG HAUL--Suva, Thurs~ Fijian cust~ma and police officers today
seized 39kg of hashish oil and powder hidden in four suitcases lying un-
claimed at Nai Airport. Officials said the seizure was a blow against a Leba,- -
non-connection drug ring believed to be using Fiji as a staging post on the
route to Australia.--AAP. [Tc~xt] [Perth THE WEST AUSTRALIAN in English -
22 Feb 80 p 2]
AUSTRALIAN JAILED--Suva, F~id~}r.--A Syriney truck ~driver was se~tenced by]
Magistrate's Court yesterday to four years' jail for importing and posseasing
1.35 kilograms of cocaine. Terry Colin Fowley, 24, of Double Bay, pleaded
_ guilty to the charges. Inspector Selva Naiker told the court that customs
officers had found the cocaine hidden in a typew~~ter case which Fowley had -
tried to claim at the Nandi Airport freight terminal. tText] [Sydney THE
SYDNEY MORNING HERA7ID in Engliah 23 Feb 80 p 31]
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LAOS
_ USE OF HERBAL MEDICINES IN CURING OUDOMSAI ADDICT DESCRIBED _
Vientiane SIANG PASASON in Lao 1 Feb 80 pp 2, 3
- [Text) Around the beginning of last year in Ban Tha Kat, [Tasseng] Beng
Canton, [Meuang] Beng Diatrict, Oudomsai Province there were a number of
tooChlesa, white-haired old folks who were acting like boya and girle again,
aweet talking and doing the housework together. At night they flirted
with one another accompanied with the aound of flutes and einging as is
the local custom. The continuous happineae of theae old folks made the
atmoephere in the village fresher and happier than before.
_ The reaeon that theee old folke had improved their morale and were happy
in that they had cleansed themeelvee of the evile of the former, etinking
society that had followed them for decadea. In other words the old folka
had become aroused, were fed ~p with their filthy livee, and had gone to -
become patienta in the canton herbal medicine clinic in order to recover -
from illneee, particularly to break the habit of emoking opium and talting
drugs, and thia had brought the old folks back to youthful lives once again.
Sen and Thit Man, two old women, loved to te11 their grandchildren that: '
At firat they thought it would be difficult to overcome the addiction of
many years standing when they had never misaed a morning without taking
druge. They thought that if they skipped taking the drugs one time their
lives would come to an end iu~ediately. When they went into the canton
herbal medicine clinic the herbal doctors had work~ed hard to select one
kind of herb to boil for bathfng and one kind to boil for drinking both
morning and evening. In less than three weeks they were fed up with,
- conaidered disgusting and had an aversion to opium. From that day to this
eix to aeven old foll~s in the village have had na thought of opium and have -
_ lived happy, contented livea jueti ae though they had never been drug addicte.
Eununta and Chankeo, two old men, said aeparately that they had been through
it themselves and that the herbal doctors had become famous in the village.
If someone fell ill with fever or chille they were accuetomed to aearching
for medicinal planta to uee for treatment. But they did not l~now what kind
of herbs to use to treat themeelvee for drug addiction. Nor did they know
what kind of herbe to look for to treat tuberculoeis or reapiratory dieeasee.
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Hawever, after they had gone to the canton herbal medicine clinic for treat-
- ment to cut drug addiction they had gained weight and felt better. Both
men also eaid that if the canton herbal doctors had not helped their lives
they didn't know how long they would have lived. In the paet any tiny
bite of gold, ailver, or jewele they could find went to pay for druga but
now they can do anything and can live in the village. They take part in
doingavot~lcto the extent they are able. They help with the graadchildren
in their cooperative auch as takiag the grandchildren eo their parents can
go to work or repairing production tools for their children. Now their
children no longer eay they hate their fathers. They praiee them for their
decieion to cut their drug addiction.
These grandfathers know the benefita of the clinic ae well as of the party
and st~te which saved their lives from drug addiction.
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PAKISTAN
BRIEFS
FRG DELEGATION--An FRG delegation has held talks with officials of the
Pakistan narcotics control board in Quetta and with other narcotics con-
trol organizations of Baluchistan. The German delegation is visiting
Pakiatan to explore the possibilities of cooperation between the two
countries in discouraging the production of narcotics, che~king their
' movement and controlling drug use. [Text] [BK260529 Karachi Overaeas
Service in Urdu 0500 GMT 26 Mar 80 BKJ ~
CSO: 5300
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50UTB KOREA
_ GOVERNI~NT TO CRACKDOWN ON HIROPPON TRAFFICKERS
Miniatry's Decision
Seoul THE KOREA HERALD in English 22 Mar 80 p 8
(Text] ' Narcotic aquad memben:.� conduct natbnwtd~ ~cim- -
wtl! be armed in the future, ' paiga to f~miliarize studentt
when necessary, to dcal with and other peopie w(th the -
armed drug dealcre, the danger ot using ~sychotroplc
Min~atr~ of Heaith and Social drugs. Schoo3~ ar~d P9n-. -
Atfa~rs has decided. sanghoe (the regular monthly
Tltie recent incldent In which meelings o! viltagers) will be
a sutpected htroppon dealer tn used for the purpose.
, Pusen used a gun to reslat HS~P~n-addicted patientt
arrert prompted the mintstry have increased in number
- W consider arming narcotic Since 1970 when only two were
squaFd mem6ero. . 'fowd~ !t wat reported
'fhey caid they teQr thst Hiroppon, known also a~
' membere ot the vtce groupa methamphetamine, Is a kind
dealtng in drugs may use. ot psychotropic drug whlch
weaponi it they encounter co~nes ln a whitlsh powder.
law-enforcement ottlcera. The powder contaln~
The drug investigation crystailine hydrochrortde and '
officials have been working is taken orally or fn jected to
unarmed since a 1975 shooting stimulate the centra~ nervoue '
accident system of a user. The drug la
' ' ' elso used W treat obesity.
� Moderri EqulpmPnt ~ Hiroppo : is a kind nt
stimulant. It prevents the user
'fhe ministry also plans to from sl~eeping end otten
augment the equipment used causes aggresclon, a aninictry .
in netttng drug tratfickere ~fflcial sald. � : ~
tuch as mordern communica- '~'he ~drug dull~ the sensea of
~ tlon rigs. narcotic teat 'uE~s and conttnued use caa
' equlpment and "apeclal be fatal. ~
'cam~rat. ' have ~been -accommodateidnta '
: Trained dogs need to ~ rovtncial or munic[ al
provlded ~ to ofilc~rs for ~ P
~cuching for drug caches, ospltals, the mintstry otficial
they,~dded ' said.
: ~ ~ - ' Patients cen be ~cured of the -
T`he mtnistry will conduct ,poisoning wieh 10 days of -
' Jolnt invest(gations for under hospital treatment
ground drug rings in coopera- Most patients are hooligans
= tion with prosecution, police or service girls who use the
and U.S, mllitaZ�y personnel in~ drug to enjoy sex or drive
Korea. ~ xway sleeping during gam-
The ministry also plans to bling, he edded.
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Instruc~tion tc> Lhe Pusan DisLrict
;;~~~~ul '!'ill�: hllltl~:~1 'I' IMP:ti in f;.i~;lisli 23 Mar 80 F 8
~'I'~~x t] Prosecutor General Oh Tak- found to have patronized the -
kun instructed the Pusan dis- criminal ring which was cru-
trict prosecution yesterday to shed by the prosecution in a
uproot all persons including shootout last Wednesday. _
government officials suspected The prosecutor general's in-
of having sheltered the large- struction followed a report by
scale trafficking in "hiroppon" the Pusan district prosecution
by Lee Hwang-sun and his that some highly ~laced gov-
gang in Pusan. ernment officials, polic~ in-
(1h stressed in his instruc- vestigators and hoodlums
tion that the prosecution were apprently involved in
should severely punish all offi- the suspected cover-up of the
cials, regardless of their ranks' drug trafficking.
and positions, if they were
'KOREA TIMES' Editorial
Seoul 'CHF KOR~n TIMES in Fnglish ~3 Mar 80 p 2
( F~l i t ~ r i a l~ The probe of large-scale drug making in Pusan
seems to be shedding,light on a very sinister form oi
collusion between a drug pusher and some l~w en- .
' forcement of~icials. The Pusan prosecution is check-
ing a variety Qf tip-o~s these days and it will take a _
` considerable tiine to prove the allegations. But stories
revealing How the man had been harbored by of~l-
cials ~ver the past 10 years are even oveishadowing
the initial revelations of the great scale ot the drug
rnanufacturing itself. ~
The simple fact that Lee Hwang-sun's "hiroppon"
business has lasted for nearly a~ decade leads us ta
a suspicion, naturally, as to whether it would have
been possible without help from any official sector.
This suspicion only grew stronger when we were
told that the mastermind figure had been criminally -
convicted for smuggling and was on "temporary"
release ~ from prison because of illness.
Information reaching the prosecutian says that
not arnly police but aLso medical ot~icials at a prison
and narcotics agents from the H~alth-SociaL Affairs
Ministry were among those supporting the drug
maker-distributor. The medical ot~icer is 6aid to have
issued false papers recommending Lee's releaae, while
police, well aware uf his continuing drug ~peration, '
allegedly helped him escape whenever the prosecu-
tion set a snaze for him in incessant drug control
campaigns. _
Huge amounts of bribes are said to have been
invo~lved in these scandalous activities. PQOple who
, read the grim reports on the development oi the drug
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probe cite the old saying that "cats are asked to watch -
flsh." What they feel is not simple shock but resent-
ment and profound bewilderment about how this
sort of graft can be possible involving the most vici-
ous of al~ crimes, drug pushing.
Drugs are said to be the greatest enem~? of a
nation. O~Ticials harboring drug criminals are even
worse and deserve more severe moral condemnation
than the makers and distributors o! narcotics, How-
ever, absurdly, oPRcials involved in the protectian
~ of drug criminals may face only the ~relatively less
_ severe charges of bribery when drug trai~ickers are
subject tu heavy puniahments. -
Over the past decade since the drug hiroppon
was flrst introduced from Japan, more than 650 peo-
ple have reportedly been arrested by law eniorce-
ment authorities. Supporsing the type of official in-
_ volvements in the drug business, its real r+cope must -
have been far greater than the scale indicated by
the number of detainees.
In the initial stage,~ manufacturing the stimulant
drug was mainly aimed at smuggling back to Japan
for underworld eonsumption there and police watc'r~
over this new form of business might have been some-
- what lax. In fact, it was not even illegal until the
Habit-forming Drug Coxitrol Law was enacted in
1971. Starting from this loose watch, . poli~e should
have been ill-prepared even in the face of growing ~
haTm of the drug in Korean society. -
We hope that the expasure of the Lee case with
- all the grisly implications of harboring officials will
- serve as an opportunity to awaken all th~ nation's
law enforcement suthorit9ea to the gravity of drug
crimes. Stern punishment of those protectzng oi~icials
- will certainly stop others from further smearing
- their hands in the injurious drug business. ,
- O~icial discipline is said to be extremely slack
in these days af political turbulence. How the prose-
- cution will handle the scandal is the target of great
concern of the people, whose confldence in officialdom -
is seriously decli~ing,
- Seven Arrested
, -
Seoul T[IE KORF.A TIMES in English 5 Apr 80 p 8
I'1'ext ] PUSAN The district pro- Lee and two government offi- $~pe~ ~ having received -
secution, noa investigating the cials who allegedly covered 44 mUllon won from I.ee on
natfon'a largest scandal in- up their crlminal acts after ~at they would re-
- volving the fiallucinatory drug receivLag bdF.es. Six traffic- lease him e~~ttly after his
fiiro~ppon, said yeskerday that kers and 16 oflicials were plac- a~ ~ pusan in 19T5. Pra -
it had arreated eeven persons ed. on the waated llst. secut~rs believe the
nut of the total Z~ involved an y have _
the acandal. ACCO~~ t� pr�secuti�n accepted more bribea fmm
Prosecutots sevealed that ~m~' Bovemment of- Lee since he was released.
flciata overlooked the manu- Am~g ~e six minis~ry o!.
1.ee Hwaug-sun, the notorious faetui'e add sales of hiroppon, $~(~s ia Kim Chang~sun, 3g.
mastermind oE the hIroppon by ~+b atng ln Pusan in re- year-old sub-secHon chief in
tronized by six~of~icials
of p
e turn for beibes since Novem- charge of narcotics contrnl,
Health-Social Affalrs Ministry, ~r, 1978, helping the traf- who ran away ~last Sunday -
two ice oRSters and four fickers escape from prosecu- whil~ undergoIng prosecuti~
~ tton contrad by tipping them interrogation on suspic9on of
hoodlums. off in advance. patronizing the .hiroppon trai�
Arreated by the prosecutIon two police o8icers are 8ckers.
were flve trafl9ckers including
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~~g
THAILAND
' i-
_ P"
C~;
- ~
- HEROIN ARREST IN CHI FNG MAI
Bangkok TAWAN SIAM in Thai 8 Mar 80 pp 7, 14
[Articles Chi~1g Mai Police Seize 20 Million Baht W~rth of `
_ Heroin'~ ]
[Te.~ct] A reporter in Chieng Mai Province has reported that
at 2230 hours on 5 March 1980, at the time police from the -
Muang distr~ct, Chier~g Mai Province, police st~tion had set
up a vehicle checkpoint along Chotna Road, witk~ Palice First
Lieutenant Sayan Chantarasap in charge of the inspection
uriit, a 100 c.c. Honda motorcycle, registration number
Chieng Mai K8972, with two men on it approached the checkpoint. -
The po3ice signaled for it to stop but instead the motorcy~cle
quickly turned around and sped away. ~ergeant Prasert Saibun-
yang and one other policeman gave chase on a motorcycie.
Almost 800 meters from ~he checkpoint, one of the c~iminais
~ took out a pistol an3 fir ed at but did not hit th e policemen.
= Anflther force of policemen also gave chase and surrounded
them. One of the criminals was arrested without force but ~.he
other f eilow seized a chance to rux? away and escaped . -
From the investigation, it ap~pears that Mr Pricha Phromwet,
age 27, who li~les at 25 Charoenphrthet Road :.n Changkhlan
_ coimnune, Muang district, Ch~.eng Mai Province, was carrying
a brown government pouch in which was found 35 sma11 bags of
heroin weighing 3 kilograms and valued at approximately
_ 400,000 baht or approximately 20 million baht if sold abroad.
Police First Lieutenant Thonsan Chaicho, the officer on duty
= at the Muang district, Chxeng Mai Pr~vince, police station
- detained the man for further handling of the cas e. The fellow
who fled and escaped is still being sought.
11943
CSO: 5300
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THAII,AND -
BRIEF'S
JAILED AUSTRALIAN A,CQUITTED--Bangkok.--A young Australian was founci not guilty
by the Criminal Court yesterday of having heroin in his possession for sale.
Owen Windham Jones, aged 25, an Adelaide gemstone dealer, was set free by the
court after 15 months in custody. Police had alleged they found 1.05 kilo-
grams of heroin in his possession when they arrested him in Bangkok in Novem- -
- ber 1978. The court acquitted him on groun~ds of insufficieat evidence an~d be- -
cause some police evidence was contradict~ry. [Text] [Brisbane THE COURIER-
MAIL in English 26 Feb 80 p 6] _
- HEROIN SEIZED IN PHUKE'P--From investigations made by the "
poJ.ice, it was learned that the house at 14 Sisuthat Road, -
Ratsada commune, Muang district, Phuket Province, had long
been a coliection point for dangerous drugs. At 1000 hours on
4 Aprii 1980, Police Major Ophat Sanasen, chief inspector for _
the Muang district, Phuket Province, police statian, together
with a force of policemeri, hurriecl to the howsE m~tioned
abo~ve. It was learnec! that this house belongs to Mr. Winit
Thammachantha, a costoms official at Customshouse 2, Phuket
prov.lncial customs [authority] . While the above was taking
place, Mr Winit was away at work as usual. The police entered~
- and searched the house and found four people gathered
- together . It was later learned that t4~eir names were
Mr Chamnien Kulapakan, Mr Chati Panrot, Mr Wichai Saetieu and
Mrs Uro~an Saehop. Searching th~n, the police found equipment
for consuming heroin and a plastic tube filled with heroin.
These same polic~nen also searched the house next door at I2/1
Sisuthat Road and found h~coin that had been mixed together -
with 1 bag of ~~giucose" sugar. The po].ice arrested Mr Pieo, or
Lo, Bunruan, age 52, the owner of the house. He, as well ag the
_ other guspects, were taken and turned over to Police Ma jor _
Nonthi Chatikanon, an inspector, who was the officer ox~ duty
at the Muanc~ district police station, for further handiing of
_ the case of posses~ion of dang erous drugs for consumption and
sale. [Text] [Bangk4k DAO SIAM in Thai 8 Mar 80 pp 7, 12] 11943 -
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CANADA
YOUNG PEOPLE WARNED AGAINST F~REIGN DRUG OFFENSES
Ottawa THE CITIZEN in English 5 Mar 80 p 12
- [Article by Jim Robb] ~
[Text] _
- Foreign countries are Canadians can face en- carriers.
cracking do~n on drug trapmene, frame-ups and The latest case involves
- affcnders, external affairs fraud if they get involved a young Canadian woman
of'ficials warn, citing the in the drug acene abroad. arrested ~n Panama City -
case of a young Canadian ex~ rnal affairs consular with a cocaine belt atrap-
wha has languished for offi~ials say, and those ped around her waiat.
- fqur years in a Peruvian convicted of pc~ssession or Young men and wore~en
jail waiting trial on a pos- tl^afficking can expec: hea- are oft~~-:~ entrapped by la
session charge. v~ jail sentences. cal authorities for the
� In another incid~nt two ~~'t'~tre is little th~ C?~~- seeming intention of ~ro-
ypung western ~'anadians d;an government can do to viding funds for ~overn-
wece sentenced recently to g~t such jai? terms reduced ment coffers.
_ aine-year jail terms in ~~though consular officials In Now Delhi, India, a
Thailand on drug charges, wbrk hard, when fhey young Canadian recently
They had spent, up to ~rn of a case, to snsure sold some marijuana to
then, thra years ewait:~~g th'e ~ Ca.:aaian nas what- two sari-clad Indian wo- ?
trial and sentencing. A ev,er help can be ofiered or men i~p the rear courtyard '
young woman charged obtained at the fami~y's of the local YWCA. !
with them was luckier. ez~}ense: � The Indians proved to
5he was grantod bail and be policewomen and the ~
Threatened
promptly fled the Asian ~ Canadian was hauled off 1
_ country. ` Young women travelling to jail where a judge ask-
abroad are sometimes ed her how much mone ~
In Lima, Peru, at least Y
h'hteatened with physioal she was can in
20 Canadians are in jail Y 8�
harm~ to force them to When told it waa ~100
- awaiting trial on drug work as carriers or "mu-
bharges, mostly involving ~a?' for drug traffickers, the judge ~ned her that -
poasession of cocaine. Four the external affairs offi- amount and . ahe was. free.
to ~ve have been in 'ail u~ The whole tranaacti~n
J P ci~ls ~warn.
to fi~ur years becau~s the b en such "mules" are took place in just r~ve
legal system in the South setl �up for arrest to draw days.
American c.ountry works ie other instances,
- so slowly. ~ a~t~ntion away from other young Canadians have
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purchased hashish in Mor- External affairs record- individual in jail and his
occo from police inform- ed 836 cases involving Ca- family in Canada~ ensure
ers, then have bean picked n~dians jailed abroad in he has mon~y pro~~ided by
up, ~ne~, and deported. 1979, most of them for tt~e family to purchase
The inforrper wins both short tetma. food and medical euppliea
- ways. He makes monoy off Some 200 Canadiens ' and money to pay the feea
the hashiah ho has sold are serving long-term sen- of the local lawyer defend-
and gets a fa from tfie tences in foreign jails or ing ths individual.
policxdepartment. have been in~prison a Prisoner exchange
P[116~ O,
f,r numbcr of years awaiting agreements have been
If oun trial. About~ half are in worked out with ~ the
y g people managc United States prisons, the United States and Mexico,
t o e s c a p e M o r o c c a n rest are scattered in the allowin the transfer of
authorities they often find jails of other countries. 6p ~anadians to
themselves picked up in P~'
Spain or France after fly- L~ttle headway nite,~otiaries here.
ing there. The total in foreign jails An, exchange agrament
The informer has been has been decreasing for h~ ~n worked out
paid off by police in those with France. The final
countries. the last thrce years - in st~ps ratifying the agree-
Drug possession in 1976 4�me 1~600 Cana- ment are about to be c~m-
France, even for small d~ans went to jail in for- p~t~.
quantities of marijuana, ~~8n oountries for varying Th~e Canadian govern- -
can lead to jail terms of perioda - but external ment ir atso working on
three to five years, the affairs admits it hasn't similar agreements ~vith
= external affairs of~cials ~de much headway dis- Bolivia, and European and
_ ~y couraging young people Commor~wealth countries. -
The tragedy, they point getting invol.od in ~ There is pressure in
out, is that all such drug d~g$� C a n a d a f o r e x t e r n a 1
cases are ra~rded by In- Officials trace that to affairs to provide legal aid
terpol and transmitted to th~ increasingly lenient funds to Car~adians charg-
Canada. attitude taken by authori- ed abroad, ofFicials note. -
Somecimes Canadians tiea to si~nple drug paeses- The argument used ia
don't ask for hetp from a sion her~ and the generally thai Canadians facing trial
- Canadian embassy abroad, carefra attitude of travel- in foreign countri~s should
~guring that if the embas- lers aad vacationars. h~v~ th~ ~~me bene~ts
~ sy doesn't know, their Drug cases abroad in available to residents here.
drug buat won't show up 1979 totall~d 260. In i977 ~ far, that is in the fu-
- in police records in this 2~0 Canadians were ture. External affairs~ like
country. - - other . f~deral departmen'ts,
. involvod in drug cases in
It s a false dream, the foroign oountries. In 1978 ~s workin~ under budget
_ external affairs officials ~he f ure was 255. restraint, and money ie
~Sin a re, es ~x~ ~nAl affairs sa s ~r~'
8 P~ P~~~~Y, ~g y Occaeionally, an eater-
tou h on dru offenders. ensuring Cahadians in for-
B 8 nal affai~s official can
E x e c u t i o n f o r d r u g eign jails get treatod fairly make money available ; on
offences there isn't uncom- and have thoir needs humanitatian groun8a on
mon. ~ooked after puts a heavy the understandin~ the indi-
Countries that are burden on diplomatic vidual getting the help will
cracking down on drug , repay at a later date.
- offenders include Grocce, Exehanges
Turkey, traq, Yran and a ment officials act
number in Latin America. as~~nnel betwan the
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CANADA ~
EXPERTS CLAIM DRUG ABUSE AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS GROWING
Toronto THE GLOBE AND MAIL in English 25 Mar 80 p 16
[Text]
VANCOUVER (CP) -The December, 1978, reported
. psychedelic sixties are long that 78.1 per certt oi the
gone, but Vancouver ex- stude~fts contacted were
petts maintain that drug using alcoM~l.
a~ee among high school In addition, 4',7.3 per cent
stndents is worsa than ever. repo~~ ~jng marijuana.
Drug use and abuse is out p similar study in 1970
ot contml, says John Tur- showed that e0.6 per ~cent
vey~ a Vancouver social u~~ ~ 3B,g pec
worker who specializes in cent used marljuana. -
helping street kids in the in 1A78~ ZO per ce~t oi the
downwwn area. city's studeuts - ~bout
"It's everyone: middle- 5,700 of them = reported
class xids, transients~ In- using hallucinogenic drugs.
dlane oH ahe reserves. kids Sereet workers say that the
irom the slums and trom numbers are increasing. -
the other end ot the socio- Use ot other dtuge~euch as
economic scale." he says. the stimulant metbamphe- ~
Frograms have been impie- ~amine, has r~en ane per
- mented in schools to edu- cenL to 15 per cent from 1874
cate students about the to 1978. Use ot depressants `
dangers ot abusing drugs ~ady st 91 -
_ and alcohoi, but the most per cent. -
recent survey of schools, bY Tltie latest survey is the
t6e B.C. Dtug and Alcohol to record aocaine uae
Canmission and released in _ a reported 8.5 per cent.
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~ CANADA _
BRIEFS
- MARIHUANA SEIZED--Seven Lower Mainland resicents are facing charges of
conspiring to import narcotica after RCMP drug officers seized $2 million
- worth of mari3uana Wednesday in a raid on a 1Kission house. Police said
the drugs, believed to have been brought into Vancouver by air from
_ Thailand, were taken from a five-ton truck parked at the house. ~eizure
of the 1,200 pounds of grasa ended a one-year inveatigation by Vancouver
and Burnaby RCMP drug squads and customs officials. Charged are Charles
I~fatthews, 35~ Kenelm Jeason, 33, and Arnold Olsen, 55, all of Miasion,
Gary Olaen, 29, of Delta and 30-year-old Beverley-Ann Christie of
_ Vancouver. ~wo other people have bean charged but nat yet arrested.
[Text] [Vancouver THE VANCOL'VER SUN in English 6 Mar 80 p A3]
COCAINE TRAFFICKING SENTENCE--A 25-year-ald Ottawa man has been sen-
tenced to nine months in ~ail for trafficking in cocaine. Daniel Sxeve ~
Ri.el pleaded guilty to the charge last month. Evidence at his trial ~
indicated 10 "baggiea" of cocaine weighing a total of 48 grame, and a -
eet of weigh scales were found in his hotel room. County court Judge
Elmer Smith, in sentencing Riel, noted he was no longer a youthful
_ offender. Riel has had a drug problem since he wae 10. [Text]
[Ottawa THE CITIZEN in English 5 Mar 80 p 11]
MAJOR DRUG RING CRACRED--Victoria (CP)--RCMP said Thursday a ma~or drug
trafficking ring has been broken up with a raid early Wednesday on 20
area homes. RCI~ and a municipal police task force were holding war-
- rants for 35 persons on charg~s of trafficking cocaine, LSD, metampheta-
mine, marijuana, hashish oil, and pharmacy drugs. RCI~' said that an
undercover agent had been buying drugs since last October. Moet of the
purchases were made in the Victoria area, but $50,000 worth of cocaiae
was bought by the agent in Vancouver on Wednesday. RC1~' Supt. Ed Trefry
of the Victoria sub-division said the operation was intended to dry up
the cocaine supply in the Victoria area. By noon Thuraday, 11 euspecte
had been rounded up in Victoria. Five others, including two Victoria
reaidenta, were arreated in Vancouver. [Text] [Vancouver THE VANCOWER '
SUi~ in Engliah 14 Mar 80 p All]
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- DRUG PURCHASE POWER NEEDED-RCMP--Toronto ~CP)--Federal Solicitor-General
Itobert Kaplan says HCMP officer~ ahould be empowered to buy druge in
the course of duty. At preaent, Kaplan said, when undercover police~nen
buy drugs as part of an investigation~ they are breaking the law ~uet
like anyone else. "I am propoeing two cabinet amendments to the Food -
and Drug and Narcotica Control Acte eo that such undercover officera
will become licenced for their worlc," he told Toronto's police officer
of the year banquet. He also said the RCI~ aho~ld be allowed to open
~ mail. He said RCI~ commiaeioner Rnbert Simnwns ineiste that his offi-
cera need epecial suthority to open mail they believe contains druga or
measages "which are tantamount to acte of treason." The solicitor-
general, who is responsible for the RCMP, said he is looking to the
McDonald Commission investigating RC1~ practices for recommendations
that could help make the force more responsible to him. [Text]
[W~.ndsor THE WINDSOR STAR.in English 2 Apr 80 p 2]
POLICE SEIZE DRUGS, WEAPONS--Windsor drug squad officers seized two
loaded weapons, ammunition aud about $10,000 worth of suspected drugs
from a car Thursday. As a result of an investigation, Folice atopped
the car driven by a 57-year-old Windeor man at Wyandotte Street EasC
- and Strabane Avenue about 4:30 p.m. Inside a briefcase on the front
g~at, officere found a 32-calibre piatol and a 38-calibre revolver.
The pisto~ contained five~rounde of annnunition ~nd the revolver six,
police said. Police also diacovered a quantitq of a aubatance believed
to be cocaine, a box containing 50 32-calibre shells and two ammunition
clipa for a 32-calibre pistol in the briefcast. One of the clips con-
tained bulleta. Officers then went to an apartment in the 3500 block -
of Riversid~ Drcive Eaet and found "a subatantial" anEOUnt af aubstancea
believed to be mari~uana, cocaine and heroin. Joseph Patrick Bowyer of
Rivereide Drive East was acheduled to be arraigned in provincial court
today on chargea of posaession of two restricted weapons and possession
of cocaine for the purposes of trafficking. [Text] [Windsor THE WINDSOR
STAR in English 14 Mar 80 p 3]
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YUGOSLAVIA
BRIEFS
MEDICINE ,ABUSE--In its newspaper 13 MAY the Federal Secretariat for
_ Internal Affairs issued a warning that recently drug addicts began to _
use the medicines artan and parkopan that are normally used to treat
_ Parkineon's disease. Both medicines have a narcotic effect. To prevent
an abuse, these medicines are sold only by prescription but in smaller
towns they can still be bought without a prescription. It has also
bzen noted that these two medicines are being smuggled into our country
from abroad and then distributed among our drug addicts. The taking of
these two drugs have been noticed in particular among secondary school
_ children. [Belgrade POLITIKA in Serbo-Croatian 11 Apr 80 p 10 AU]
- FRG HASHISH SMUGGLER--Edgar Friedrich Diringer, age 37,. car mechanic
of Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany, was sentenced on 28 March
by the Gevgelija communal court to 3 years' imprisonment for smuggling
123 kilograms of hashish, which he attempted to transport in his rented
- car frota Syria to the FRG. His wife and t~o children traveled with him. -
The car was confiscated and he was fined 20,000 dinars in addition.
[L~ubl~ana DELO in Slovene 29 Ma.r 80 p 8 AU] -
_ SOMALI HASHISH PEDDLER--Ismail Mehadale~ of Somalia has been arrested in
Koper for selling drugs. He is suspected of having brought al~out
2 kilogratns of hashish in Turkey and smuggling it into Yugoslavia, fr~m
- where he wstnted to take it to Italy. He was turned back at the Italian ~
- border because he was short Df money, and then tried to sell some of his
hashish in Koper. [Zagreb VJESNIK in Serbo-Croatian 31 Mar 80 p 16 AU]
- OPIUM SELLERS--The Slavonska Poz~ga public prosecutor has requeated that
investigation proceedings be started against Ladislav Goecak, age 24;
Mirko Prpic, ag~ 29; ?,'.ravko Jurdan, ag~ 22; Diminik Kopricevic, age 30,
and Darko Silibod, age ~5, all of Slavonski Brod; and Tra~ce Dimkov, age 29,
and Laza Melov, age 30, of Kavadarci in Macedonia. The last two sold to
the first group a cake oi opium, cJhich the latter then tried to sell in
Slavonski Brod and Zagreb. ~Zagreb VJESNIK in Serbo-Croatian 1 Apr 80 p 16
AU] _
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HEROIN SEIZED ON BORDER--Lindau--What is claimed to be the largest heroin -
haul in Europe has been seized at the Greek-Yugoslav frontier crossing
point atGevgelija from a haulage contractor resident in HeimesrEUtin, a
Lindau suburb. Customs officers found 80 kg of high-grade heroin with
an eatimated street value of about DM30 million under a consignment of
20 tons of oranges. Lindau police said today that this qu~ntity would
have been enough to supply the German drugs scene for several montha.
According to police, the 53-year-old importer of the heroin obtained it
in Turkey. Thanks to a t~ipoff and cooperation with the Yugoslav authori- _
ties, the man~ who had been a euepect for some time~ was arreeted. ~
- [Text] [LD231714 Hamburg DPA in German 15~~ ^u1~T 23 Apr 80]
. .
500 known nar.cotic '
NARCOTICS USE ON SLOVENIA--In 1979 there were some 1,
drug users and distributors in the L~ubl3ana region. During the last 2
years in Ljubljana the authorities have confiscated 872 kilograms of
hashish, 18 kilograms of hashish oil, 2,000 ia~~g000[L~ubljana~DELO in
kilograms of mari~nana and 400 Indian hemp p
Slovene 5 Mar 80 p 12 AU]
25, Mirko Leskovar,
DRUG PEDDLERS ON TRiAL--The trial of Bojan Berkovic,
26, Renata Potocnik, 20, and Metod Humer, 37, will begin at a L~ubl~ana
court soon. Theshgandacocaineged[L~ubl~ana DELOiin Slovene 11 Mar180
mari~uana, hashi
p 12 AU ]
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BRAZIL
BRAZ IL
- DRUG TRAFFICKER ARRESTED--The Curitiba newspaper 0 ESTADO DO PARANA reported
that the policy have arrested Harolt Zarenta, a Germa.n citizen, in Foz de
Yguazu, for transporting 2.85 kg of pure cocaine, which he purchased in
Asuncion, Paraguay, for $4,000 and was planning to take to Frankfurt.
[Asuncion ABC COLOR in Spaniah 6 Apr 80 p 22 PY]
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cxzL~
' BRIEFS ~
DRUG TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED--Santiago, Chile, 23 Apr (AFP)--The Chilean
police reported today that five members of an international drug
trafficking organization have been arrested., They are: Gabriel Was~er,
_ German; Roland Sch~leappi, Swiss; James Slesar, American; Guillermo
_ Energicci, Argentine, and Maria Diaz Courbis, Chilean. It is believed
that Cecilia Vargas Reyes, former Colombian consul in Bolivia who is
- wanted by Interpol, is the head of thia organization. [PY232037 Paris
AFP in Spanish 1637 GMT 23 Apr 80 PY]
- CSO: 5300
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VENEZUELA
COLOMBIAN COCAINE TRAFFICKER ARRESTED
Caracas EL UNIVERSAL in Spanish 16 Mar 80 p 4-38
[Text] A liaison man for powerful Colombian cocaine traffic gangs has
been arrested, with a large amount of drugs in his possession, by offi-
cials of the Technical Judicial Police [PTJ] in a luxury hotel in the
eastern section of the city. �
- According to infarmation supplied at the PTJ, the chief of tk~e General
~ Antinarcotfcs Office, Maximiliano Lopez Araujo, identif ied the arrested
drug trafficker as Al~jandro Raimundo Villegas Vivas [as published], 29, _
who diatributed the drug at ni~htclubs in the eastern section of the
city. ~
Villegas constantly traveled by air to San Antonio del Tachira and in
every case returned with amounts of fram 300 grams to 0.5 kg of cocaine
hidden in his clothes.
He made contact in Tachira with Colombian traffickers and often went all
the way to Cucuta where he used to receive the drug. The police found
2.60 grams of cocaine and 100 grams of marihuana, valued at 160,000
bolivars, in the possession of the trafficker.
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t VENEZUELA
BRIEFS
INTERNATIONAL CONNECTION--Carupano, 19 March--Some 1,000 kg of marihu2na
was seized from an international 3iug traffic gang operating between
= Co~.ombia-Carupano Trinidad-Miami. The chief inspector of the Technical
_ Judicial Police [PTJ] of this city, Florentino Arteaga, said that although
there is not much drug use in Carupano, it has become a kind of transit
bridge. "Marihuana comes from Colombia, goes through this city to Guiria,
from where it is shipped to Trinidad, Miami and Mexico. This is one of
the waya the gang operated." He said that the n~ber of persons implicated -
is 20 under arrest and that the case filed by PTJ officiais adds up to 400
sheets, which gives an idea of the operation size. He added that the in-
vestigations continue because new contacts connected with the criminal drug
traffic axe being aought. The 1 ton of marihuana depasited at the PTJ of-
ficea in Carupano is contained in a large number of bags. This is not
loose or leaf marihuana, but a sophisticated compacted packaging process
which the auspecta used to ma1:e it occupy less space. The packaging forms
a kind of compreased tablet which is wrapped in a plastic and aluminum
paper. The PTJ chief here explained that all this work was done to pro-
tect the marihuana if the traffickers were forced to throw it into the sea
if they were surprised by the authorities while traveling with the "mer-
chandise." "These tablets or bars float in water, which allows the traf-
fickers to return and recover them when the danger is over. [V'ictor
Moreno] [Text] [Caracas EL UNIVERSAL in Spanish 20 Mar 80 p 4-38j 11635
CSO: 5300 r
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IRAN
BRIEFS -
OPIUM PLANTATIONS DESTROYED--The reconstruction crusade office of Kazerun,
in cooperation with the gendarmerie regimeat and the office of cooperatives
and rural affairs in the city, has destro;?ed a~proximately 20 hectares of
opium goppies planted in 7 different areas of Kazerun. The destruction pro-
cesa, which began 10 days ago, will continue until all cultiv$ted areas have
i been destroyed. Also, the first team of thP Mamasani mobilization head-
quartera has returned to Mamasani after destroying poppy fields in Mahur-e
Minasi region, located in Bibi.Hakimeh. The team destroyed about 15 hec--
_ tares of opium poppies in this region. [GF2017S~' Shiraz Domestic Service
in Persian 1400 GMT 19 Apr 80 GF] Eighty per~z,~t�: of all opium plantationa
in Mahur Milasi have ~=~a deatroyed by the corps of the Revalution Guards,
gendarmerie, the national mobil3zation center and the additional gendarmerie
forces diepatched frAm Shi.raz. Our correapondent reporta that the eradication
of th~ opium plantations in Mahur Milasi will be completed this week.
[GF221345 Shira~ Domeati~ Service in Persian 1400 GMT 21 Apr 80 GF~
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sErr~caL
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EXPERTS NOTE CONSIDERABLE DRUG ABUSE IN AFRIGA -
- Brazzaville LA SEMAINE AFRICAINE in French 7-13 Feb 80 pp 9, 10
[Article: "There Is Drug Addiction In Africa, Too "J
[Excerpt~ The experts who have beer~ convened in Dakar since 8 January 1980
have ~ust stated: drug addition in Africa has not reached the proportions
that hgve been experienced in Asia, the United States, or in Europe, but
drugs are used a great deal in the African continent. Above all "cannabis
[hashieh] (or "Indian chanvre") is consumed in Africa, where 55 other
plants grow that can be ua~d as druga. In Senegal, "grass" is called
"yamba;" in Morocco aYid in Algeria, "kif" or "chira;" in Togo, "weed" or
"gay." It ia smoked in the form of a cigarette or is swal~owed~~th.tisane
[an herb tea] or in a date paste. I� hae ite producere, peddlera, its -
circuits; and ita conawnption hae long been known. In Black Africa, -
during certair~ rituals, the "sorcerere" give dancers a boiled extract from
_ leaves--nothing but a drug--to give them more endurance and more spirit.
In North Africa, "kif" is mixed in with a date paste that old people eat
in order to give them more energy. To this traditional consumption
today there ie added large-scale drug ade+~tc2ion--trom mass produced druga.
Moroccan pr.oduction of hashish is very considerable, especially in the
north. In Senegal, during the period between two harves~s of rice or
peanute, a peasant eows "yamba" which, for a very sma~.l effort yields him
between 10,000 and 15,000 CFA francs a kilo. A"qamba" cigarette, x~ick- ~
named "bax" by its uaers, can cost up to 500 CFA francs, that is, 5 times
- more than a kilo of rice. The Moroccan production of hashish extends far
beyond the borders of the country, contrary to that of Senegal where the
commercial circuit is still of the artisan-type. International traffickers
~ow the Moroccan market, where they arrive in private planea, pleasure
craft, small motor boats, to buq cargoQa of "kif" directly from the pro-
ducers. New Drugs. Setting aside hashish, modern drugs.are beginning to -
make an appearance in Africa. Ia Dakar, some young people deeply inhale
paint and varniah thinner that they call "guentsse," or they add amphe-
tamines to alcohol. The amphetamines, howeyer, are obtained only on
preecription. The same phenomenon is kaown in Togo and in Benin where,
according to the delegates of these countries, 8ome "corticoidea" can be
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found on market sta~ds. These new and more powerful drugs work havoc
- on young ~frican citizens. There are numberous tragedies, as in the case _
of a 19-year ald youth of Dakar who beheaded his cousin and went off
saying that he iieeded a hwnan ekull to go in aearch of diamonds; and the
other one who was engulfed in paranoia and ~umped from a third floor. ~
How to resolve tinis problem? In spite of ~ie serioueness of the problem,
the African countries fiYtd it difficult to fight drvg addition, becauae
- there are many causes: the cutting off of family relations in the big
African cities, the rural eaodus and the social uprooting that it entails,
_ and the ease w-ith which drugs are found. In addition, in same countries
there is ao organization to curb the availability af drugs on the market, -
- and agreements governing the control of drugs have not even been signed.
That is why the Dakar Symposium called for an Africaa and an international
cooperation to reaolve the problem, aince the attitude of each country
causea repercuaeiona on the others.
- 8255 _
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BELGIUM
BRI~FS
ANTI-DRUG BRIGADE CHIEF FREED--Brussels (AFP)--Charged on 19 February by
- the Brusaels drug traffic court, police captain Leon Francois, head of the
- Belgian anti-drug brigade, and one of his deputies, Willy de Cuyper, an
NCO�of the constabulary, were freed on~Tuesday, 4 March. The three other
men charged--a constable and two employees of the criminal information
office--are to remain in cuatody. Captain Francois, who has headed thia
epecial brigade sinc~ 1971, when it was established, was accused of having -
allowed "hard" drugs (cocaine and heroin) to slip onto the clandestine mar~
ket. At the time of his arrest, in January (see LE MONDE of 25 and 29 Jan-
uary), he explained that such traffic enabled his collaboratora better to
penetrate the Belgian drug traffickers environment. [Text] [Parie I,E MONDE
in French 6 Mar 80 p 11] 7129
CSO: 5300
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FRANCE
DRUG ENFORCEMENT PROBLEMS DISCUSSED
_ Paris LE P~t~.ARO in French 11 Feb p 12 ~
[Text] Drugs: Soft or hard, among students or among immigrants or after
intellectural discussions, they do their damage from Belleville to the Nation
and from Vincennes to the Republique. Around University faculties or in the
neighborhood of after-hours bars, it is readily available for t~ose who know
how to get it. First the young people have a good time. The pleasure of
some may be the fortune of others. We went to see it clos~r up. Unfortunately '
_ it is an every-day reality.
; Last Thursday at 1500 houra at 36 Quai des Orfevres. Narcotics Division.
- Fourteen men are ready. Six Renault and Simca automobiZes of an ordinary
appearance, light blue or apple green, weekend color, begin to mutter in the
courtiyard. They are going to check out druga--and eventually their auppliers. -
The hunting seasoa for heroin has been perman~ntly opened. t
Behind the convoy, a police emergency vehicle. Some 300 meterE from the place
to be checked out it accepts the occupants of the cars, who park wherever they
can. The emergency vehicle starts off again immediately. It doesn't bother
anyone. Routine operati~n. I.t_stops suddenly at the corner of Louis.Bonnet
.Street and Orillon Street. Inspector Gaillard calat and blond with the body _
_ of a~ blurb rapidly prepares his troops. "Ready to go?"
The bar is invaded 10 seconds later: "Your papers, if you please." His tone
is calm, polite. It is mare impresaive than coarse language would be.
Everyone understands that this is a serious matter. Kolwezi [translation
unknown], courtesy.
On The Road
A foreign clientele: according to the police services, 80 percent of the
suppliers, wholesalers and retailers of drugs are from ~Jorth Africa and the
Middle East--mostly from Lebanon and Algeria. It is difficult to corner
them. They usually have a tourist passport. Therefore, you can'� pick a
quarrel with them over their work permita. They make their fortunes ifl
three months, four or five at the maximum. They go back to their countries.
Three months later, having made a big spiash, they come back again--sti11 as
tourists--to remake their fortunes.
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Then the policemen, in plain clothes, with sport shirts and long hair, walk _
down the street. What are they to do? When they find a vendor, he has
nothing in his pocket but one dose of hashish. The rest is hidden under the
step of a atairway in the little alleys of Belleville or of the Nation where
it is hard to tell the difference between a policeman, a gutter cat and a
parcel of heroin.
In the first bar, the policemen of the narcotics squad have asked the clients
to ahow their forearms anyway. A pale young woman has a well marked
epidermis. However, they won't go beyond that: Who has sold her her 100-
franc dream--that's the price of heroin? She doesn't lmow anything about it.
Furthermore, in general the suppliers have found an unbeatable formula. The
customers come i.n their cars. The vendor gets iiito the car. The negotiation
- on the price of a joint is made in a private home. No possible pursuit.
Everyone is quiet. The young woman in question will receive only advice on
~ the dangers of possession.
The parts of the city that we have visited? Belleville, the Nation, and of
course the outskirts of the University of Vincennes. There it is something
else: the police and the pushers know each other well--except at Vincennes.
Because Vincennes--it was an inspector who told me this--no policeman goes
there. At Belleville, they can still go in. On condition that there not be _
more than five or six, but 15--half of the drug division for the entire Pa~:is
region: "Otherwise," he adds, "you're a~king for trouble." A University
faculty, no: regulations have made the University campus a refuge forbidden
to the police. Furthermore, they are waiting for you there with pick handles.
You go into Vincennes in plain clothes. However, 3t is not comfortable to =
suggest drugs there. Once you have passed the age of ;~our first communion,
you are suspected. Cop, reporter, you are a nuisance. In 4::e .^.~~~hborhopd
of the faculty, I have been sold two doses of hashish anyway. At 15 francs _
each .
Limited by their information, which is very accurate, by their~legal pro- -
~ibitions and by the complicity of the magistrates, the police watch this
growth helplessly. In the opinion of each one of them, to judge by their
statements, it is unprecedented. They recognize unfailingly the users and
the vendors~ a professional y~~y~~~ which permits them to discern imme-
diately whaz they call the "crime of the dirty throat." Untiringly they -
come back, they wi11 come back this evening. Something to break up their
priva~e lives. "A policeman's wife," one of them told me, "is more in-
terested in knowing how to make a good stew than in knowing how to broil
anything. A beef stew can be heated up again."
- They know everything, but they can't do anything.
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FRANCE
DRUG STATISTICS : SUI~lARY FOR 1979
Paris LE FIGARO in French 21 Feb 8A p 14
/Text7 In 1980 25,000 drug,uaera Were reported in France as seriously ad-
dicted. This ie the estimate of the police aervicea. Tn 1979 there pere 129
deatha from overdoees og drugs. In 19k8 there Were only 2,000 lrnown addicts.
In other ~o.zde, drug addiction hats become a verttable calamitp, a progres-
sioa Nhich does not seem to be cloee to slowing do~n in epite o! the great
efforte of the custoe~s' agents and of the services charged with putting down
the d~ug traffic. It ia v~rSr di!l3talt to calcu].ate the quantitiee of drugs
that have pou~,ed ihto the French market inaa~euch as the seizuxes ef~ected on
- French tezritorq are invalidated bq the role plaqed by the French internaw
tional airports ae a~itching devices. ~
It Waa thue that in 1979 the oeized druge represented n value oi~ aoma 200
million fr~ncs. Three-quartere o! those drugs xere seized bp tha cuatome
eernicee. In ].979, the cuetom aervicee alone diecovered nearly 4 tona of
- hemp in the forma of oil, resin and araee; 23 kilograme of opium, 65 kilo-
- grama of cocaine and 4,500 doeees o! LSD. Several drug-trafficking gange
have been broken up which connected Europe and the United Statee Wi.th South-
eaet Aeia or Colombia.
Asia, And more preciaely the "golden triangle" in Thailand, ia atill the -
ch~.ef supplier of haehish (ahead of North Alrica and South America) but it
' chiefly produces opium and its derivdtive heroin.
On the other hand, Colombia is making a remarkable break-through in the pro-
duction of cocaine, or "snow."
It was arouad 1976 that thia drug from the paet reappeared. It had vaniahed
- after the 1939 War. This alkaloid, extracted from the leaves of coca, a ~
- ahrub native to Centr~l America, ie prepared aa a alightly crqata9.lized
ehiny White poWder. This ia not like heroin, which ie dull. zta uaere gen-
erallq sniff it, but some in~ect it either alone or mixed aith heroin (the
epeedball). The return of cocaine ie diaquieting. Firat, becauee it ie
coming back in force: 96 kilograms were aeized in France in 1978 and 58
- kilograms in 1979. Then because ita in~portation, unlike the importation via
the little individual networka which drain Thai heroin toward Europe, is
obviouelq a Well-orgauifzed bueineae that operatee on a large scale.
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Bet~er Organized, More Prudenr
- The cocaine trafficker.s Seem to he hetter organized than the dealera in other -
drugs. They are extr~amely careful. And moet of them are unlmown to the
police aervices.
According to the police, the prices of those products on the street have
hardly any relation to inflation. If an obstruction in the cocaine traffic
has made ita price go up to 500 francs a gram on t~e street in France,
hashish has cost about 10 franca a gram as of the beginning of the 1970
decade. Heroin may vary from 200 to 300 francs. As for opium, it is traded _
at about 200 francs a gram.
Tttese figures, although they put France rather in the hindmost group of the
developed countries facing this phenomenQn, are however very disquieting.
According to the UN Comunission on Drugs ia its Vienna meeting, a increase in
the number of drug addi.~ts is seen everywhere. At the same time, the number
of deaths from overdose is also increasing.
The progression of heroin addiction is conetant, particularly in Weatern
Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Aiaerica. Cocaine is gain-
ing ground everywhere according to the UN experts, and the habit of smoking
coca paste--a form in which the drug is even more periloua--is enjoying a
dangerous vogue. `
The same increase in consumption i.s documented for hemp, by far the most
_ extensively used drug. The abuse of barbituratee, sedatives and amphetamines
is increasing on all continents. Finally, drug addiction has ceaead to be _
a purely urban phenomenon and more and more wom~n are using drugs.
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FRANCE
EFFORTS TO BREAK VINCENNES DRUG NETWORK kESZSTED ~
Paria LE POINT in French 10 Mar 80 ~p 73
[Article by Jean-Marie Pontaut: "Vincennes: Doubtful Immunity"] _
[Text] Where to establish a risk-free heroin black market in Paris? Where
else but in a college protected by the university immunity which forbida
the police to enter there? That is the clever idea of some traftickera who
set up ahop in Vincennes College, a buainesa that involves very few etu-
denta. Of the 70 traffickers queationed by the police eince 1977, only
three of them had atudent cards. And the addicts come to Vincennes to do
thrir ahopping juat as they would go to Belleville or to the Granda Boule-
- varda, other known eelling places.
After a aimilar earlier case which took place at Vincennea in 1977, the
- BSP, the Anti-Narcotica and Pandering Brigade, settled the problem in lesa
than a month. Plain-clothea detectivea moved anonymously around the college
and spotted the dealere (heroin eellera). The next day, just before they
arriv~d, the police caught them red-handed with the druga in their pocketa.
- However, after a few months, the "narc" detectivea who arrested some dealere
csrrying 200 or 300 grams of heroin in Parie learned that those druga were ~
on their way to Vincennes. For the traffickers, learning a leeaon from
1977, have changed their methoda now. They have the drug brought in by an
accomplice, swallowed up in ~he flood of atudenta, who c~nceals it in a
hiding place. The desler has only to go and pick it up at the apot. That
way, he never carries the drug on his person on entering or leaving. T~ese
traffickers are recruited from among a small underworld of French and for-
_ eign hoodluma. There are some twer~ty of them, sometimes more on the weel:-
- en~, and they each sell from 30 to 40 dosea a day for 100 franca each
(which makea an averag~ of 60,000 to 80,000 franca a day). Some 100 doses
on a campua that has an enrollment of 30,000. Several timea the adminis-
_ tr~tive personnel and President of the University Pierre Merlin have had
= violent controntations with the dealers.
Howevex, contrary to certain rumore, the police have not register~d any
deathe by overdose in Vincennes. On the other hand, with the addicts
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shooting up there in the reatrooms, there have been several cases of non-
fatal overdoses followed by more or leas serious problems. Le. Samu [trans-
lation unknown~ has sometimea intervened and the addicts have had to be
taken urgently to the infirmary or to hoapitals. Following theae incidenta,
the UAivereity Council decided on 25 February to have monitore check student -
identification cards atthe entramce and aleo that the police could intervene
on the campus. However, faced with the studenta' (physical) hoatility, the
University Council pitifully turned tail. It aent the monitors back to the
rectorate, keeping only the ability to call the BSP detectivea to the rea-
cue in an extreme caee.
The BSP is obviously rather skeptical becauae of having been burned once.
Previously in 1977, the arrest of a dealer 20 meters from the college pro- -
voked a riot. The trafficker's howling stirred up the studenta who "lib-
erated" him and he made it back to the univeraity triumphantly, with the
ha~dcuffs on. Last Friday, head of the BSP Commissioner Andre Soleres went
there himself to evaluate the aituation. Intervention seems difficult be-
cause the main heroin aelling places are very far away from the exits.
Now the publicity atirred up around Vincennes is going to cause the dealers
to fZee. By offering them their help in the nsme of university immunity, -
some unthinking atudenta are not defending freedom ~s they claim, but a
kind of gangsterism. =
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FRANCE
~
HASHISH SEIZURE, IiEROIN LABORATORY PRISON SENTENCES
Paris LE FIGARO in French 15 Feb 80 12
[Text] One ton of hashish in sheets--enough to manufacture a million
cigarettes--has been seized by French customs. The drug was found aboard a
sailing ship, the "Esta Vandora," which was on route from Gibraltar to the
Netherlands.
The "Nordet," a watch ship for the Dunkerque customs office which was patrol-
ing off Cape Gris Nez boarded the sailing vessel as it was traversing French
territorial waters under British colors. Three persons were found on board.
= T~ao of them, Yan Mooy, 25 yeare old and M. Kooyman, 37 years old, were
= Dutch anrl one, Otto Simon, 27 yeare old, was German. They were interrogated
yesterday by the customs officers of Boulogne-aur-Mer.
- - _ _ _
The market value of the seized hashish is from 2 to 3 million francs at the -
purchaeing price for the traffickers and 10 million francs at re~ail.
A amaller but still large quantity of "grass" was also seized at Orly. T~aenty=
one kilograma of hashish were hidden in two suitcases belonging to a traveler
fram Nairobi (Kenya). The latter, Robert David Regan, a British sub~ect who
livea in Newcastle, where he runs a cabaret, declared that he could not explain
"the presence of the hashish in his baggage and that he must have been the
victim of a bad joke." He was handed over to the drug division.
In Marseilles, before the tribunal of highest instance, a severe sentence,
30 years in prison, was demanded for Georges Calmet, the principal accused
peraon, employed as the "chemist" in a laboratory which transformed morFhine
- into heroin. This laboratory was discovered in January 1978 near la Ciotat
(Bouches-du-Rhone~. The government prosecutor demanded, furthermore, 15
years of prison for Raymond Silvani and from 10 to 12 years of prison fo~
Claude Calmet and Louise Be1da. Other prison sentences were demanded for
other accamplices. The discovery of a elandestine laboratory on 5 February
1978 in the villa "La Gale~ade" had permitted the discovery of a network of
drug-traffick.ers working between Italy and Southeastern France. The drug
coming from Italy was transported by three emigrant~ from that country who
had been arrested and sentenced by the I~alian authorities.
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FRANCE
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MULHOUSE HASHISH SEIZURE--Ninety kg o� hashish was confiscated in Mulhouse
(Haut-Rhin Department) and police queationed a dozen traffickera whose key
man among the workers appeared to be Robert Munsch, a 29-year-old bueiness
agent. It was in his town, a suburb of Mulhouse, that the 9f1 kg ~f hashiah
was discovered. Munsch told police tha;: :ie bought it at Fr 8 per gram and
resold it at Fr 10, and that he had doae so for 18 months, having already
~ sold a atock of 90 kg. [Text] [Paria LE MATIN in French 29 Mar 80 p 14]
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SWED~N -
BOOK DESCRIBES SUCCESS OF TREATMENT CENTER, PROGRAM
Helsinki HUFWDSTADSBLADET in Swedish 22 Feb 80 p 5
_ [Article by Ingalill Osterberg: "Care Center for Young Drug Abusers"]
[Text] Several thousand Swedish young people have serious
drug problems and in~ect hard drugs. The Swedish narcotics
debate has been strongly polarized for more than 10 years be-
tween the proponents of compulsory care and those who are dis-
dainfully called "narcotics liberals" by their opponents. The
former have now acquired support from the so-called Hassela
*_nodel. Several years of experience have been gained from it,
- and even such a famous authority as Bengt Bor~eson calls it
"one of the most important challenges that have been devised
in the area of treatment during the past decade."
Hassela ie a care center for young drug abuaers who have extensive narcotica
experience. The Maria Out-Patient Clinic in Stockholm selects the abusers,
who cannot be more than 20 years old, and sends them for compulsory treat~ent
to Hassela near Hudiksvall. The staff there believes that it is advantageous
to have them far removed from their original environments. In the beginning
_ they are not even allowed contact with their parents. Twel~;e youths are taken
in as a group.
The staff consists of :~ine people. It is not a matter of therapy here, but
training and upbringing under a f irmly structured program. The "students"
live 2 years under this system--the fj.rst year at Hassela, and after the doors
to knowledge are open they study at an adult continuation school not far away.
- The "old folks" at the school maintain continuous contact with Hassela and `
influence the new students.
Staff Negative .
Psychologist Anna Thelander undertook the task of carrying out an analysis
= of the Hassela system. She has published her experiences as a participatfng
observer in "Hasselakollektivet." She has accomplished this enormously
demanding task in a manner which makes it appropriate to reco~nend the book
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even for people other than those who are involved with narcotics problems.
Thelander has experienced a real te~t of her maturity, and kept her heart
~ warm and her head cool in spite of all the attacks that she was subjected
to. The staff has, among other things, released a brutal and emotional
criticism of her both as a person and a researcher. -
It ie almost a rule that the staffs of institutions will re~ect the analyses -
of researchers if the anelyaes do not agree with their own interpreta~ions.
Such research i.s regarded as an attack, and I myself have reacted similarly
after a scientific criticism. One must ask if it is going to b e possible to
get researchers t~~ apply the method of participatory observation in the -
future. It is very trying, with its role conflicts, its identif ication
hazards, and its vulnerability to attack. In Thelander's case the feelings _
were at a fever pitch, since Hassela was on everyone's lips as controversial.
The staff purposely and skillfully succeeded in releasing infoYmation to the
mass media. The criticism focuses on Thelander's emotions and bt1~.ePs.
- Authoritative Model
It seems entirely natural that Thelander's version of Hassela could not pass
uncriticized, since her ideology collided with some entirely different judg-
ments. Still she is irank, because there are many positive elements in this
model. The reader must also be very firm and hard-boiled, so as not to re~ect
the experiment simply because it is authoritative and compulsory. _
I agree with those who ob~ect to other than a short-term, carefully prepared -
compulsion. ~ut the central question must naturally be whether the young
people who have previously gone through the system--something over 100--could
- have received any additional or better help some~here else. Unfortunately
that does not seem likely. The alternative would have been a young people's
prison or a reform school, and our experience with that kind of "treatment"
has not been favorable. On the other hand one should not embrace a mentality
which implies that the end ~ustifies the means.
Compulsion seems to satisfy many people's need to find simple solutions to
- complicated problems. At Hassela they speak of "positive constraint" or
"constraint to freedom" and claim that these undesirable youths would never -
~ voluntarily have chosen treatment. They think that the abusers have gone too
far dawn and their distrust is too great for voluntariness to work in the
drug abuser's struggle to change his situation. ~
Suitable Only for the Young
Opponents of compulsory care--correctly, I believe--think that compulsion
used on the rejected is a discriminatory act, that it stimulate~ regression
and cannot contribute to development, that it has a negative inf luence on
the staff and makes them suspicious and does not promote the development of
new methods. An important argument is that experiences of this compulsory
care for youths cannot be extended to apply to grownups. Compulsion is
naturally regarded as still more insulting by them than by teen-agers.
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Hassela is building on a politir_a1 consciousness. They are depending heavily
- on awakening youth to the ideology of world sacialism and solidarity. The
ob~ective is to show that the drug problem has its roots in the oppression of
the working c?.ass. Critics ask themselves which explanations the youths from
other social groupB will believe. D~ea not this interpretation of socialism
contain strong conflicts and hidden messages showing that even this syetem
cannot refrain from casting out ita detractors?
Work and Physical Trair?ing
Some rii~nts about the contents of the program in this care center which the -
authorities are responsib~e for. The demands are strict buL they are com- ~
bined with genuine concern. The pioneer spirit and the staff's devotion at
all times removes muci? of that which causes cruelty in social control. There
- is no therapy conducted. There are no conversation groups9 but there are con-
frontations in groups. There they criticize--often moralizing--the young -
people's errant da~ly behavior. The objective is to give them a new iden-
ti.ty, a new self-confidence.
It is not di`ficult to agree when the~ say rhat these young people should
not be regarded ss sick patients and that: it is necessary to mobilize their
- positive resources. Work makes up the framework of the program. They must
learn to work at heavy and sin~gle-handed tasks and achieve a new rhythm in
. their lives. Physicat training plays a central role: riding, skiing, a
_ strenuous mountain hike at the beginning of the term. Later a mountain
~ trip is conducted, and the first year culminates with a trip abroad. They -
even have d:~nce lessons and restaurant visits as rECreation. It seems sur-
priaing that alcohol is not totally forbidden. Thelander points out that
one revealing queation is how does the system deal with ita detractors or
with those who do not f it in. Does Hassela make them distrustful of all
other care? Can they seek help somewhere else, or do they condemn themsel-
ves to a still deeper decline?
An Evaluotion
_ How is Hassela doing, what are the results? Researcher Anders Andren has
recently published his final report with an evaluat~.on. He shows that the -
youths who have passed through the system during a~-year period have been
more handicapped than other abusers. In their backgrounds there are diffi-
cult family conditions, many placings in institutions, changed foster homes,
_ hard abuse, prostitution, and criminality.
_ The follow up shows that a ma~ority live a social life or have some form of
employment, that they arE not criminals or involved in serious misbehavior.
Hassela has not had more f.inancial support than any other care pro~ect. In
- 1978 the costs were 285 ~cronor per day, Andren is a careful optimist on
behalf of Hassela. But he says that the results of the treatment cannot be
judged because comparable data is noC available. He concludes that the
- results should not be interpreted as a justification for compulsory treatment.
At Hase~ela they say that these youths need rehabilitat~on and many agree with
- that. We need--not Hassela--but a similar energetic struggle to find new
solutions for those who now get "social care" in our institutions.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Thelander, Anna. "Hasselakollektivet," a report on the contents and
ideology of a care program at a home for young drug abuaera. 336 pp. _
Stor Prisma 1979. 59 kronor. _
2. Andren, Anders. "Svar pa fem fragor am Hassela" [Answers to Five Ques-
tions About Hassela], a stmunary of research about Hassela. 235 pp.
Report 8, Stockholm's Social Services Administration. Stencil 1979.
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� -
, -
POLICE SEEIC NEW LAWS TO PENETRATE DRUG SMUGGLING RINGS
, Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish 4 Mar 80 p 10
~ (Text] One day last autumn a policeman in plain clothes took a shuttle
train at Stockholm's Central Station and traveled north. He carried a brief
case containing 250,000 kronor in bills. That was the beginning of the
seizure of one of the largest narcotics sharks in the country.
Following instructions from a drng pusher ~~P policeman descended from the
_ train at a station on the line to Marsta. There he met the pusher. When -
the latter saw the money he clearly understood that the "customer" was
serious.
_ "Wait here 20 minutes," said the pusher, and he disappeared.
And 20 minutes later he was back at the station with a large parcel of heroin
which he delivered to the policeman. At that point his career in the heroin
businesa came to a sudden end, at least for several years.
Out of the shadows at the station a number of policemen came forth and seized -
the surprised drug pusher.
This is an unorthodox method for the police to utilize. 1'he law gives no -
cl.ear directive as to whe~her this is germitted or not.
- Police Division Chief Esb~orn Esbjornsson of the National Swedish Police
Board was the one who took the initiative in the entire operation.
"I can thank the National Bank of Sweden that everything went so we11. They
produced the money in one hour," said Esb~ornsson to SVEN~KA DAGBLADET.
To Use Protiocation
Because the law does not give any clear directive the police must in these
cases be guided by the decision of the JO [Parliamentary Ombudsman] on the
sub~ect of provocation. According to that the police can use provocation to
bring out proof that a crime has already been committed. That is what hap-
pened in the case of the simulated heroin purchase.
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By following this decisian the poli~e cannot provoke anyone to commit a
crime.
"In this way we can lock up notorious narcotics criminals. We do not know
whether this is legal, but we will work to get a new law enacted," explains
Esb~ornsson.
The police are now going on the offensive against narcotics criminals. The
market has chan~ed character. It is now dominated entirely by foreign crimi-
nal syndicates and gangs which the Swedish police are finding it very diffi-
cult to penetrate.
"Swedes are now out of th~ picture," said Esbjornsson.
For several months riow a working group in the police department has been pre- _
= paring a recommendation for new and more effective search methods.
The police want to have, a~~ong other things, greater latitude f or wire tap- _
ping. Today the police must have the permission of a court to tap a sus-
pect's telephone. The use of secre~ miscrophones and other electronic eavea-
dropping devices is also prohibited.
"Perhaps we know that a narcotics co~rier and a pusher will meet in a hotel
room when the courier arrives from abroad. Now we have no possibility of -
listening to the conversation, which we would like to do.
"We would also like to utilize TV surveillance. As it is now we must display
a. notice that an area is under TV survei113nce. Tn o~~er to use TV surveil-
lance in a public place we must also have permission from the county govern-
ment," said Esbjornsson.
"We would like to have an exception for the police. That would be in the
best interests of the people."
Esb~ornsson maintains that in order to combat the foreign gangs the police
must penetrate them and study tk~em from inside. Now we know very little about
how they are organized. To make this possible for the police new methods must -
be used. In certain cases this requires changes in the laws. -
Start Being Used Next Year
In May the police working group is expected to be finished with its recommen-
dation. If it goes through the police can begin to use the new search methods
next year.
"Really we should seize the narcotics which are intended for Sweden as near
_ the source as possible, before the large amounts are sp?it up into smaller
bundles," said Police Division Chief Esb~ornsson.
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SWEDEN
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SCHOOL DRUG DEALERS--The narcotics police and the Iocal investigation
divisions of the Stockholm police are now working together in a drive
against small drug pushers who are introducing narcotics to youths in
s~hoolyards and other places. A military unit which was having problems
- with narcotics was helped by police with drug-sniffing dogs, and the dogs
could discover the places where the drugs were hidden. On Wednesday after-
noon and evening attention was focused on some achools and areas around
neighborhood youth centers in the southern section of the city. The situa-
tion was apparently better than at the time of a raid several days ago, but
the drive is going to continue at the present level. "We are attacking
wherever the public, school authorities, or the staffs of the youth cen-
_ ters repnrt that pushing ie going on," said one of the investigators. "Tips
on pushers are naturally welcome. Just phone to the local police investi-
' gation division, and they will respond." Tha problem for the narcotics -
police in Stockholm has been that their manpower inputs for the prevention �
af druga being sold to youths reduces the effort that can be applied to -
counter the ma~or gangs which are supplying the drugs to Sweden. It is
hoped that through cooperation with the local police investigation divisions
~ a manpower balance can be achieved. [Text] [Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in
Swedish 7 Mar 80 p 10] 9287
_ NARCOTICS POLICE OPERATIONS ABROAD--RPS [The National Swedish Police Board]
has requested in a letter to the goverrnnent that Swedish policemen continue
to aerve in Bangkok and The Hague. Against the background of the worrisome
nazcotics situation RPS believes that it would be unwise to reduce police
aurveillance of the international drug situation. The police may also
request the stationing of a man in Turkey, since Turkish gangs have taken
over a part of the European narcotics market. Since 1977 two Swedish police-
men have beei~ stationed in the Swedish embassies in Bangkok and The Hague.
RPS wants to e~ttend these assignments until the middle of 1981. The police-
' men cooperate with the Thai and the Dutch police as well as police authorities
from other countries. They have been able to obtain tips about plann~d _
smuggling operations and new distribution routes which have led to drug
seizures in Eurflpe. In its letter to the government RPS points out that the
. narcotics situation is cause for concern. In 1979 there were 614 kg of
heroin seized in Europe, while the figure for 1978 was 539 kg. During most
of the 1970s the illegal heroin market in Europe was dominated by the Chinese,
who operated from the Netherlands. The Chinese influence has, however,
diminished during recent years. [TextJ [Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish ~
8 Mar 80 p 12] 9287 ~D
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