JPRS ID: 9756 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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~IARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
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27 May 1981
a WORLDW IDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
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CONTENTS
ASIA
At1STRALtA
Court Hears Ustails ot Hercin Smuggling ~by Nin~
- (THE SYDNEY "t~iJRNING I~ERL~LD, 24 Apr 3~) 1
~ Br.iefs
_ Heroin in 13alloon~ 3
BURMA
Heroin Sei~ures Reported in Rangoon
- (TH~, WORi:IP;G 1_'EOPLE' S L'AILY, 13 Apr 81) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- Briefs
brug Seizures ~
Drug Off.enders Rounded Up 5
- 76 Drug Cases Registered S
Opium Seiz�re b
H(1NG KONG
BrieEs
~'wo Men Seized 7
- M~ILAYSTA
- F'ive International Drug Syndicates Uncovered
- (THE WORKING PEUPLE'S DAILY, 27 Apr 81) 8
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U.S. Customs Officials Provide Narcotics Training
(NEW STRAITS TIMES, 8 Apr 81) 9
I~~ur Pounds of Pink Heroin Seized in Kuala Lumpur
- (I~W STRATT'S TIrf~S, 2 Apr $1) 1U
Briefs
_ Life Sentences 11
Death Seriteixces 11
Narcotics Statistics 11
Smugglers Using Vests 11 _
Drug Charges 11 -
Death by Hangi.ng 12
Opium Charge 12
Opium Sentence 12
Narcotics Seized 12
Heroin Convici:i.on 12
Herain Charge 12
A.ddzc t Cured 12
NEPAL
Briefs -
Heroin Pusher Arrested 13
NEW 7.EALAND
Author.ities Brace f_or. Expected Influx of Heroin
- (Vaxious gOllTCP_Sy various dates) 14
- Huge Har~r~st Cired
(}n Auckland Streets
Imports From Hong Kong
_ Hong Kong Link Refuted
Hon~ Kong H~roin Seized
Drugs ot~ Dead Pair
Transtasman Passports To Curb Drug Trade Proposed
; (R. G. Wallace; THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 16 Apr 81) 18
Teenagers Inc.rea.sinbly Using Hallucinogenic Drugs
(THE EVENING i'OST, 2 Apr f31)...e 19
- rnglishman Jailed for tmporti.ng Cannabis Resin
('1'A.E EVENING POST, 15 Apr 81).< 20
Neo-American Chiirch rten~be ~ s Gui.lty on Cannabis Charge
(TH~ NT'W 7EA]~t1ND HERALD, 7 Apr 81) 21 -
Nelson Police Raids Net 25 on Vaxious Drug Charges
(TIiL' PRE55, 1 Apr 81).....e...........o 22
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PAKISTAN
Opium Crop Lower From Golden Crescent
(THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY, 13 Apr 81) 23
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
_ Islands Being Used as Transit Port for Drugs
(THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY, 12 Apr 81) 25
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
BriQfs
Drug Transit Center Possibility 26
SINGAPORE
Kuala Lumpur-Based Drug Smuggling Ring Smashed
(THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY, 5 i~'Iay 81) 27
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand Plan War on Drugs -
(AFP, 8 May 81) 28
- Brief s
Crackdown on Opium Smuggling 29
SRI LANKA
Major Cocaine Pipeline Uncovered
(Ranil Weerasinghe; SUN, 20 .Apr. 81) 30
THAILAND -
Golden Triangle Again World's Top Opium Source ~
(Jim Wolf; BULLETIN TODAY, 23 Apr 81) 31
Editorial on Next Step in Drug War
(Editorial; BANGKOK POST, 27 Apr 81) 33
Briefs
Police Seize Marijuana 34
33-Year Sentence for Australian 34
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BERMUDA
Briefs
- Various Drug Charges 35
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BOLIVIA
Briefs
Salomon Denies Drug Charges 36
BRAZIL
Brie~s
Rio Drug Bust 3~
Cocaine Laboratory 3~
Drug Traffickers Arrested g~
COLOMBIA
Briefs
Arms, Drugs, Contraband Smuggling 38
MEXICO
Briefs
Marihuana, Pi11s Destroyed gg
Traff icker Released 39
Marihuana, Cocaine Seized 39
Traffickers Shot by MiZitary 40
Seized Drugs Burned 40
'Operation Condor' Results Cited 40
Cocaine Seized 41
Poppy Plantations Destro;~ed 41
Marihuana Traffickers Sentenced 41
Trafficking Conducted in Jail 42
PERU
Briefs
Narcotics I3and Seized 43
Cocaine Trafficker Arrested 43
Civil Guarda Detain Traffickers 43
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Editorial Camments on Drugs, Arms Smuggling Problem
(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN, 24 Apr 81) 44
- Briefs
Anti-Ganja Drive 46
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'I'en Narcotics Smugglers Executed 13 May
(Tehran Domestic Serice, 14 May 81) 47 .
Briefs
Opium Seized 48
' ~hiraz Narcotics Haul 48
KLfWAIT
EriePs
Indian Dealing in Hashish 49
Four-Man Herain Ring 49
Drug Dealer Arrested 49
- Arrests for Selling Hallucinogens 50
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICP_
?~tADACASCAR
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~ Drug Abuse Gaining Ground, Big Raid Nets~'Rongony' Haul
- (Arsene Ralamihoatra; MADAGASCAR-MATIN, 14 Apr 81) 51
SENEGAL
- ~'amba Traffickers Arrested
~ (LE ~OL~IL, 22 Apr 81) 54
' WEST EUROPE
DENMEIRK/ GREENLAND
- Briefs
- Concern Over Hashish 55
rRANCE ~
_ Llectric Shock Treatment for Withdrawal Described
(Marie-Ange d'Adler; LE MATIN, 14 Apr 81) 56
NORWAY
Hashish Finds Growing Acceptance Among School Youth
(Petter Nome; ARBEIDERBLADET, 1 Apr 81) 59
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SWEllF.N
Stockholm Police Arrest 29, Break Up Heroin Smuggling Ring
(Claes von Hofsten; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 31 Mar 81) 62
TUKKEY
_ Alcol~ol Problem on Rise in Turkey
(rfILLIYET, 17 Apr 8~) 64
Record of Narcotic~ Operations Outlined ~
(Erhan Akyildiz; MILLIYET, 19 Apr 81) 65 ~
Brief s
_ Funds To Curb Opium Flow 67
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~ AUSTRALIA
COURT HEARS DETAILS OF HEROIN SMUGGLING BY NINE '
_ Sydney THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in English 24 Apr 81 'p 10
[TextJ Heroin was concealed on the bodies of women and brought into Australia, a
magistrate was told in the Central Court of Petty Sessions yesterday.
Mr C. Briese, CSM, was hearing charges against nine people allegedly involved in
conspiring to import heroin.
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Tho~e charged are: William Andrew Conino, 44, storeman and Patricia Louisa
Smith, 41, invalid pensioner, both of William Street, Granville; James Robert
, Copland, 34, motor dealer and Mary Blanch Copland, 27, of Jacaranda Drive,
Georges Hall; Suz~nne May Hall, 22 of Durham Street, Carlton; Terrance William
Whatley, 29, labourer, of Pyrmont Bridge Road, Camperdown; Paul Michael 0'Connor,
35, storeman, of Rawson Road, Guil.dford; JFanettP 0'Keefe, 25 of Anglo Road,
Campsie.
They were each chared [as published] with conspiring with each other and other
persons to import heroin at Sydney 2nd elsewhere between Nove~.?ber 1, 1980, and
" April 9 th~s year.
Mary Copland was charged with having $800 in her custody which might be reasonably
suspected of being stolen or uniawfully obtained. She was also charged with
= being knowingly concerned in the importation into Austr~.lia of heroin between
- .Tanuary 31 and April 8 at Sydney.
0'Connor was charged with supplying heroin on January 31 and April 9 at Sydney
and 0'Keefe with importing heroin at Sydney on April 8. ~
" Also app~earing at court yesterday was Dennis Walter Cox, 30, labourer, of
Durham Street, Carlton who ~~as charged with being knowingly concerned with the
, importation of heroin between January 31 and April 9 this year. -
Mr C. Smith, for t_he Crown, alleged the heroin was brought into Australia by
mai1. and by using women to Lring in the drug in condoms concealed on their
_ bodies.
- The court was told 0'Keefe was arrested at Sydney Airport with 100g of hProin
valued at $100,00Q.
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Itwas further alleged James Copland was the principal in the conspiracy to import
the heroi_n.
Mr Briese refused bail for James Copland but bail was continued for the other
eight .
0'Kee~e, 0'Connor and Whatley were allowed $5,000 cash bail on the condition they
report daily to police, deep away from points of departure from Australia and
that their passports remain in the custody of police.
Mary Copland was granted $3,000 bail on the same conditions.
Conino, Smith and Hall were all granted $1,000 bail.
Cox was granted $5,000 bail.
'lhe case was adjourned to May 7 for mention.
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AUSTRALIA
BRIEFS
~-lEROIN IN BALLOONS--A ptlotographer smuggled $50,000 worth of heroin into
Australia in two ba:l.loons concealed in his anus, a court was told yesterday.
Terence Williams Wallis, 28, of Braeside Street, Wahroonga, appeared in the
Central Court of Petty Sessions charged with importing heroin and possessing
ileroin at Sydney on April 19 and with supply ing herain at Potts Point on the same
day. Sergeant John White, prosecuting, said Wallis had arrived at Sydney Airport
- fram Penang on Sunday. He was �~7atched by pol~ce who followed him to a flat in
Kin~;'s Cross where, they alleged, he re:noved two balloons from his anus.
Sergeant White said the balloons had contained a pinkish susbtance, later found
to be 84 grams of heroin with a street value of about $50,000. He told the court
_ Wallis had said that he bought the heroin in Malaysia for $800. Mr Terry
0'Connor, JP, refused bail and remanded Wallis to appear at the St James Court of`
Petty Session on April 22, [Text] [Sydney THF SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in Englisri
21 Apr 81 p 2]
CSO: 530Q/7552
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l~EROIIJ S~IZURRS REPO:tTED 1N RANGOON
Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 13 Apr 8i p 4
[Text] RANGUON, y April - Dru Law.
Poiice of the Aan oon ~
8 Police further searched
Tiivision Crime Pre~etl- U Set Sann (52) at the
- tion Division rounded up corncr of Maha BaRdoo-
q number of drug pushers la Streat today and seized
and ~rug addicts and a bottle filled with he-
seized horoin valued at roin from him. He was
more than K 30,00o in boolced under Sections -
Rangoon today. 6(b), zo(b) tsale) and r4
, Police searched a sus- (d) of the Narcotic
picious looking youth at brugs I,aw. =
- the corner of Cana! Police acting on a tip, -
Street and 2ist Street searched the house c,f a -
this moming and seized car driver U Tun ;ihwe
a Ila grammes of l~eroin at the Hydrology Office
~ fram him, Folice also compound on Kaba Aye
seized a hypodermic Pagoda Road this morn-
syringe with needle froar. ing and seized iwo `
his house. packetc of heroin, each
1'he youth, idcnti6ed as containing tso grammes~
Yan Kyin-hwe alias Htwe from three peraons in
Maung of q8, ztst Street, 'the house.
' Latha 1'ownship, was The three were iden-
booked under Sections ti6ed as Maung Myint
6(b) (possession), i� (d) Hlaing (z�) of Padintan
- (failure to register for Quarter, Mandalay South-
treatment) of thc Narcotic Last Townsh+,p, his
Drugs I,aw and Section brother Maung Win
33 (a) of the Excise Act. Swe (3g) and Maun~g
Police also seized zo Nyan. Win (2t) of Ward
ticals of opium residue No 6, Lewe. -
_ from ons Chit Hlaing (zg) The heroin is valued
of aoth Street, at the at about K 30,000.
_ corner of Maha Bandcola Police booked them
Street an~ zoth Strcec � under Sestions 6(b), to
t~d.~y aad booked him (b), iI (abetment) and r4
� undcr Sections 6(b) and (d) of the l~arcotic Druga
i� (d) of the Narcotic I.aw.--{H) ~
CSO: 5300
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BURMA
BRIEFS
_ llI~UG SLIZUI:ES--A police party of the Crime Prevention Division of the Rangoon Division
People's 1'o].ice rorce, searched Ohn Myint (38) of Zawana North Ward, 'Chingangyun
Townsf~ip, at the co rner of Maha Bandoola and 17th Street in Latha Township and seized
a I~nclcet of heroin valued at K50 at 2pm today. Ohn Myint was taken to Latha Town-
shi p Yolice Sl-ation anct booked under Section 6(b) (possessicr_) and 14 (d) (failure to
rc~gister fur treatment) ot the Narcotic Drugs Law. In the evening, Station Officer
U rlyc and parry, ac~ing on information raided the room of Maung Maung Shein (26) at _
No 4(b), Sanyeiknyien 6th Street, No 2 Ward, Kamayut Township, and seized seven pack-
_ ets of heroin. Maung Maung Shein was taLc~n to Kamayut Police Station and b~oked under
S~ctions 6(b), 10(b) and 14(d) of the Narcotic Drugs Law. Simila~ly, U Aye and party
raided the housc of 1Co Nyunt Tin at No (759), 25th St, Nu 10 Ward, South Okkalapa !
'I'own511ip, and seized 90 ticals of opium. Ko Nyunt Tin was taken to the South Okkalapa
Polic.e Station and booked under Sections 6(b), 10(b), 11/14(d) of ~he Narcotic Drugs
Law.--Ahlone Police led by Station Officer U Aung Khin seized *_wo penicillin bottles
contaiuing heroin, a packet of heroin and a hypodermic syringE hidden in a lunch-box _
a!. a llouse in Hninsigone Road in Ahlone yesterday. Police arrested Tin Shwe (25), the
owner ot the house, and Ma Toe Toe (18), who was in the house when the seizure was
made, and booked them under Sections 6(b) (possession), 10(b)(sale), 11(abetment)
and 14(d) (failure to register for treatment) of the Nareotic Drugs Law. [Text] -
[Rangoon 'PHE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English `L6 Apr 81 p 8]
DRUG OFFf:NDERS ROUNDED UP--Rangoon, 26 Apr--Police rounded up 203 persons, including
nine women, in connection with 115 drug cases during the first three months of 1981
_ in Rangoon Division. Of the total of 116 drug cases, 10 were connected with opium,
~ 13 witt~ her~~in, 48 with marihuana and 45 with failure to register for treatment.�
[Text] [Rangoon TlI~ WORICING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 27 Apr 81 p 8J
76 DRUG CASES REGISTERED--Kadoe, 24 Apr--Police acting under the narcQ,tic drug abuse
control plan of the Moulmein Township People's Council, rounded up 101 persons in '
connection with 76 dru~; cases in Moulme3n during one-year period ending 3Z March 1981.
I'olice