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JPRS L/ 100~3
9 October 1981
V1/orldwide Re ort
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NARCOTiCS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 47/81)
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JPRS L/10043
9 October 1981
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WORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 47/81)
CONTENTS
ASIA
- BURMA
- Briefs
Taunggyi Heroin Seizure 1
Wundwin Heroin Raids 1
INDIA
India Becoming a Major Transit Country in Drug Trade
_ (Dilip Gangulay; BUSINESS TIMES, 5 Aug 81) 2
Briefs
- Opium From Pakistan 3
MALAYSIA
Police Report July 1981 Drug Arrests, Seizures
(NEW STRAITS TIME~, 19 Aug S1) 4
Ztaenty-Nine Pounds of Drugs Seized, 'Ifao Suspects Arrested
(NEW STRAITS TIMES, 19 Aug 8ii 5
_ PAKISTAN
Record Narcotics Haul Made by Customs
(BALUCHISTAN, 22 Sep 81) 6
Heroin Worth 2 Million Rs Seized at Airport
(DAWN,20 Sen 81) 8
Narcotic Dens Persist in Violation of Islamic Law
(Maqsud Yousfi; JASr1RAT, 8 Aug 81) 9
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Briefs
Heroin Haul on Border 10
Islamabad Heroin Seizure 10
~ Opium, Hashish Seizure 10
PHILIPPINES
Campaign To Check Drug Abuse Ord~red
(BULLETIN TODAY, 3 Sep 81) 11
Briefs
Marihuana Plamtation Destroyed 12
Increased Drug Traffic 12
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SRI LANKA
Briefs
Ganja, Hashish Record Haul 13
THAILAND
Deputy Prime Minister Outl:nes Opium Suppression
_ (Bangkok Domestic Service, 23 Sep 81) 14
Border Patrol Police Raid Heroin Refinery
(Subin Khunkaeo; POST, 14 Aug 81) 15
Paper Blasts U.S. Envoy Remarks on Drugs
(Editorial; NATION REVIEW, 3 Sep 81) 17
ONCB Poppy Destruction Drive
_ (Voice of Free Asia, 15 Sep 81) 19
Khun SA Offers To Halt Opium Trade
(POST, 17 Sep 81) 20
ONCB Head Comments on Reward for Khuti SA
(POST, 20 Sep 81) 21
Briefs
New Program To Start 22
CANADA
Editorial Cites Plight of Cuatoms Service in Drug Fight
(Editorial; THE WINDSOR STAR, 21 Sep 81) 23
Briefs
Hashish Seized 25
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LATTN AMERICA
BAHAMAS
Briefs
Quaalude Classification 26
Drug Ship Seizures 26
~ 5-Vessel Incident 26
BERMUDA
Briefs
Jail for Cocaine 2~
BOLIVIA
Antidrug Law To Be Amended
(La Paz Radio Illimani, 18 Sep 81) 28
Briefs
Antidrug-Trafficking Crusade 29
CHILE
Briefs
Haahish Traffickers Arrested 30
� COLOMBIA
Complications in 'Cocaine Queen' Trial
~EI. TIEMPO, 21 Aug 81) 31
Trafficking in 'E1 Modelo' Prison Described
- (Germs~n Navarrete; EL TIEMPi~, 7 Aug 81) 34
Cocaine Seized at Eldorado Airp~~rt
(EL ESPECTADOR, i8 Aug 81) 38
Methaqualone Raids Described
(EL ESPECTADOR, 25 Aug 81) 39
Cocaine 'War' in Caucd Described
(Carlos Mauricio Vega; CROM05, 25 Aug 81) 40
JAMAICA
Health Minister Discus~es Island's Drug Probler,.
(THE DAILY GLEANER, 7 Sep 81) 52
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Briefs
Drug Abuse Centers 53
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VENEZUELA
Drug Traffic Alleged To Figure in Caribbean Politics

~ (Francisco Chao Hermida; ZETA, 30 Aug 81) 5~+
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Drug Crimes Increase, Laws Said To Be Inaufficient
(Ahmad Muhsin; AL-BAYAN, 11 Aug 81) 56
- WEST EUROPE
AUSTRIA
Drug Consumption Increasing, Deaths Decreasing ~
(DIE PRESSE, 26 Aug 81) 60
Briefs
Hashish Plantation in Klagenfurt 61
DENMARK
Physician Expert Discusses Widening Drugs Problem
(Peter Ege Interview; BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 16 Sep 81) b2
Conference Examines Situation of Older Addicts
(Hanne Se3.naes; BERLIN~SKE TIUENDE, 19 Sep 81) 65
Police Claim South America Is New Cocaine Source
- (Anders Wiig; BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 15 Sep 81) 66
UN Official: Eighty Percent of Country's Drugs From Aaia
(BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 28 Sep 81) 69
ITALY
Briefs
Milan Police Seize Hashish
, NETHERLANDS
_ Psychiatrist on Dan~ers of Free Diatribution o� Heroin, Methadone
(Jaap Calaco Belmonte; NRC HANDELSBLAD, 10 Sep 81) 71
NORWAY
Government Increases Funds for Fighting Narcotics
(Torleif Andreassen; AFTENPOSTEN, 4 Sep 81) 75
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Book on Oelo Drug Scene Detsils Youth Addiction
(ARBEIDERBLADET, 26 Aug 81) 77
Briefe
Sorlandet Narcotice Enforcement Increaeed 78
Narcotics Police Stationed Abroad 78
TURKEY '
~3riefs
Heroin Seizure 79
Heroin Smugglers Caught 79
Antalya Heroin Seized 79
UNITED KINGDOM
'LPA' Reports on Largest UK Cannabia Seizure in History
(LONDON PRESS ASSOCIATION, 28 Sep 81) 80
Druga Gang on Trial for Smuggling Cannabis
(Ian Henry; THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, 16 Sep 81) 82
Briefs
Cannabia Smuggler Jailed 84
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~ BURMA
BRIEFS
TAUNGGYI HERO IN SEIZURE--0n 15 September, a combined party of the Taunggyi
township customs department and the city people's police force searched a
Datsun minibus, registration No NYA/3345, leaving Taunggyi for Mandalay.
Th e party recr~vered from two passengers 1.3 kilograms of No 4 heroin worth
about 100,000 kyat. The herion carriers--Aik Kyauk of Namyin Ward, I~ogaung;
and Ma Shut of Ywathit Ward, Mogaung--were arrested and the city people's
police force has filed charges against them under sections 6.B and 7.B of the
narcotics drugs law. [BK021037 Rangoon LOKTHA PYEITHiJ NEZIN in Burmese
24 Sep 81 p 7 BK]
WUNDWIN HEROIN RAIDS--On 6 September, Wundwin police camp commander U Yin Kyi
and a squad, together with No 1 ward councillors of Wundwin, raided the
res idences of U Th an Aung and his wife Me San, and U Nyunt Kh in anci h is wife
Ma San Kyi, and recovered from the former couple six packets of heroin each
- worth 25 kyat, and from the latter couple a penicillin bottle containing heroin.
The four have been charged under sections 6.B, 10.B and 11/14.D of the narcotics
drugs law. [Rangoon MYANMA ALIN in Burmese 20 Sep 81 p 6 BK]
CSO: 5300/4505
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Ih'D IA
I~~IDIA BECOMING A ir1AJ0R ~TRANSIT COU~Y IN DRUG TRADE
Kuala Lumpur BUSINESS TIMES in Engl.ish 5 Aug 81 p 17
[:~rticle by Dilip Gangulay in New DelhiJ
PLACED betwcen the ot cocaina was due to proposes to increase the new dlmension, the mag-
[Text] "Golden Trianglc" of pasathrough. SO millton rupees azinesaid.
Burma, Thailand and Agcnts in the western ~US;8.23 million) annual Only two kgs oi
La~os and thc "Golden port city ot Bombay budget allocatton for the morphine were scized in
Cresccnt" of Atghanis- s~tumbled on a conaign- Ant!�narcotics operatlon 1977, but ~etzures jump~d
trin, . Pakistan and Iran, mcnt ot Bolivian handt- �rhich is considered ln- dramatically to almost
' India is (asl turgconing crnits shipped from La adequa.te. 13 kga in 1978 betore settl-
inlo a major transit coun- Paz. 2.275 kilogrammes ~yhat lures the smug- Sng down to six in 1979
try for narcotics a~~d o( cocaine valued at six ~crs to o rate throu h and 1980. ,
cvcnapossiblasourceof miliion rupees (about Indiaiathelaxityotlaws The total seizures,
opium-basednarcoticsto ~JSS750,000) was re- here. While Iran shoots however,representonly2
the drug�dazed Western covercd. The seizure was drug ottenders and South to 15 per cent ot the total
world. _ lhc biggest in Asta - paian countries achteve~ traffic in narcotics, an
From a modest tran- ~lmost threc tfines the ~hc same result by court cn[orcement ofticial said. .
sit country in the carfy ;e~~nual cocaine haul in room death sentence, in ~~There are indeed
70's and a harmless tun nny singlc ycar. Ind1a thcy are let off with
limc destination for soft In APril, an alert cus- ust aix months er three signs that the Indian con-
dru addicts, India has toms oificial In Bombay j neclion can only grow in
K ycars ot imprisonment ~~mc, though India has a
now tound a place in In� scized 2.9s kgs ot heroin ~nd a paltry fine o[ 1,000
tcrpol`s confidential "In- (rom a Bangkok pasaen- ru ccs (alwut USS12~). ncar monopoly in the
tclii encc Bulletin", a �~r. P world opium trade
g 6- Over and above that the mar inall sharin with
m:~jor source ot i~- In thc Hindu holy city Indfan judges let oft g y g
lclligencc on wo~Yld drug� of Bcnaras (Vnranasi), smu lers on bail and Turkey, there is trouble
running. anti�narcolics sleuths Pcrsonal bonds. In many ahead", he said.
Thc bulletin says; scized two kilos of ca~ca they just jump the Fro?n a hlgh 872
"Even India is ssid to be morphinc and discovered baj~ lonnc~ fn 1978, India's ex-
a major exporter of ;i morphinc lab. ~~yyhat worrfes en� ~rt ot 90 per cent praof
bcl cvedA by mrany that G~indhins govcrnmentl Is lorcement agencies even ~o ~7
0 t nnes (n 1980 aa
considcrablc amount o[ worr.ied ovcr thc increas� morc are several poten- roduction, which o[-
Indian and Pakistant ~ng involvcment ot India tlally exploaive trends pciala claim is regulated
heroin, through Nepal, ~n lhc intcrnat[onal drug notfced 1n recent years by export demand, was
arc rcaching Australta r;ickcl. '~'o streamline there la an inereasing tlit brought down.
nnd New Zcaland." ,?nto�narcollcs agencies, towarde more hafder and
This Is thc tlrst time ~hc government recently retined druga the big Bul independent in-
thal lntcrpol has said organised a two�weck catchea in 1977-T8 were vcatigation by Indian
that India might be mak� ycminar�cum�training ha~hish this year's newspapers have estab-
ing its mark, though in Its ~oursc hcrc. sclzures are ot dltferent I ished that over 300
own humble way, fn the Mrs Gandhi ls In� dimenaion: Record tonnesotopiumissmug-
wnrld's estlmated USS3o0 troducing n new anti� brcaking hauis ot heroin gled out trom govern-
billlon narcotics busi� nnrcotics bill in the com- And cocalne,which tigure. ment-superviaed planta-
nesa. ing session of thc Par� At thc top of the klller lion fielde.
Thc Indian entry into li;iment to incrcasc the lists ot narcotics", a re- "Totally unreallstic
thc inlcrnational drug m~ximum prison term to ccnt study by the popular Procurement prices, in-
world is vcry recent. In 19 ycars against the ex- lndlan newa magazlne, sufficient manpower to
~hc United Nations In- isting thrcc ycars. India Today, said. monitor production
tcrnational Narcotics The bill aims at end� Otficial data con(irms sprcad over 12,000 hec�
Control Board reports of ~~g thc con[usion that ex- lhe trend. In 1978 and lares and a highly or-
]979 and 19f~0, Indta was; ists in the present stat� 1979, the agen^ies seized ganlaed system of graft
nol mcntioned at all. utes in which opium ia 25C and 220 grammes ot among police and excise
The Indian cennection, denlt wilh separately heroin reapectively. But personnel are factors in-
started unfolding at the from morphinc, heroin lhc catch suddenly strumental in the tlow o[
beginning ~f thts year, ;ind cocainc with nothing jumped to 1.5 kgs tn 1980 lhe black gold to the
w h c n g o v e r n m e n t t o c o v c r s y n t h e t i c and the last April haul in smugglers." the national
slcuths wcre tipped of[ narcotics. Bombay had toeaed the daily. Indian Express,
ih;~~ a large cnnsignment Thc govcrnment also score tnto an altogether sald. - AFP
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INDIA
BRIEFS
OPIUM FROM PAKISTAN--New Delhi, 18 Sep (AFP)--An Indian Border Security Force (BSF)
patrol seized 460 kg (1,012 pounds) of opium last night being.smuggled in from
Pakistan through the international border along the Indian Punjab state. The
. B.S.F. headquarters here today said the patrol party ran into the smugglers but
the latter escaped under cover of darkness. The contraband was estimated to be
worth 500,000 rupees or over U.S.$55,000. [Text] [Hong Kong AFP in English
1105 GMT 18 Sep 81 BK]
CSO: 5300/2005-A
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:1ALAY S IA
POLiCE KEPORT JULY 1981 DRL'G A~E~T~, SEIZURES
Kuala Lumpur NEW STR~ITS TL'~IES i~ c.nglish 19 Aug 81 p 6
[Text]
I~ YJ,q, ~L A L U M P U R~, tre ln dalan Kem on
ltitirs. -'Thlrteea for� duly 24 und sefzed
elgners were among 784 a~~~ 4pp gm ot herofn.
peaple arrested tor A couple waa detalned
~oeee.~sloo ot druss laat tor questloning.. .
m~nth. CID Dlrector Another� suepected
Dstuk Abdul Aahman ~atrlbutina centre was
Ismall sald today. ~covered in Batu Pa-
T6~ey included 9~x ~Q on duly 23 during a
Tpa7a, a'l~nlslan and ~d on a house In dalan
tv~� FYllp~��S' The res~ KunNng. w6ere poll;e -
are 31n6aporeans.
~ Ot the 7E4 people ar� S~ Sm ot herofn,
resRed. six are sus- $ we~B~~6 xale, a palr
~ ~ ~g.t~. ot xisaors. 188 empty
- tfekere. atrsws, Sl candles and
Policc also seized xveral pastic pacicets, '
17S lba oi raw opium, and i8.631 believed to
x67 Ibs ot ~anJz, 3.2 1bs be proceeds from the
ot heroln,147 gm of pre� sale ot 6eroia.
pared opium aad 2.9 gm Two men were de-
ot morphlne, all worth talned for questioning.
about 570,000. In Kota Klnabalu on
In Sunaai Petani, po� duly 11, s man was ar-
Ilce tound 2'~4 sacks o[ rested and 160 gm ot
Ean ja welg6ing about 6eroin and 10 lbs o! raw
~ 26! Ibs dumped ln the opium sefsed.
bus6es at Kampung On auly 21, police ar-
Pulau Sayalc on duly 27. reated a suapec6ed drug
In Klang police tratticker on Pulau
ralded a~uspected Langlcawl and selzed
dsu6 di~trlbutlna cen� SZC 6m ot heroin.
CSO: ~300/8302
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MALAYSIA
TWENTY-NINE POU~'DS OF DRUGS SEIZED, Tj~;O SUSPECTS ARRESTED

, Kuala Lumpu~ NEw' STRAITS TL'~IES. in English 19 A~ig 81 p 6
[Text] .
KUAI.A LUMPUR, ~~~'au, Pertis; while the
, Tues. - Police ar- other was from Bukit
rested two susvected Dinding tn Gurun.
~ d r u g t r a i f i c k e r s' "We believe the drugs
before they could dis- R'ere meant for loca! con-
tributs about ;83,600 ~ u m p t i o n," D a t u k
worth of hard drugs to ~1II18II 9atd" _
local pushers here. Police betieve drug
The suspects were traffickers are 'feeling
picked up by . ASP Toh the heat' and are con- .
Chin Seong in an ambush ~8�tly changing tactics
at a petrol kiosk at the 4th to evade arrests.
m[le Jalan Kl~g ~a geadwa
here last F`riday. y
CID director Datuk
Abdullah Rahman Ismall "But we are making
said today: "We tound headway in our battle
five packets o! raw again~t the punhers and
� opium weigt+:ng� 221be, tr~ckera.
three pouads of herotn "We are getting more
and a tour-pound slab o[ tip-oK~ and intelligence
morphine in a bag ln the reporta on drug activities
boot of the suspects' car." throughout the country."
Pol[ce believe the Police leel that the
drugs had been recently best way to detect drugs
- smuggled acrosa the ia through the use ot spe-
' ~ Malaysia-Thai border. , cially tratned dogs.
- The seizure followed a ' O.n cocaine, Datuk
tip-oti trom the public. Ftahman said: "We have
One ot the suapects ao evidence that this
was trom Kampung Pau drug ta being used heie."
CSO: 5300/8302
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PAKISTAN
RECORD NARCOTICS ~T.P_UL :lADE BY CUSTOMS
_ Quetta B~LUCHISTAN TILIES in English 22 Sep 81 pp 1, 6 .
[Text] P. . , .
CUETTA Se t, 21. the basis of an irifo-' ugg~ers,under the co-
Customs ruthless dr.~- rmation, a new'Mobile ver of their rapid fi
ve against 'Urug Ped~-~ Squad' srecifically ~ L~ng,~isappeared iiito
lers' in Baluchistan constituted by Colle- the near by hills wh-
continues un-abated. ' ctor of Custom at Taf- ereas the jeep ~Nas ta-
after many mon~hs of tan worked with great ken into custody..It
- efforts,the first br- enthusiasm. The info-. was then thoroughly
eak though was achie~' rmation was further searched and 42 Kg.of
ed when 731~K ~.cpium proces.sed and sifted heroine valued at Rs.
and 13.2 Kg.heroine carefully so as to ca- 63 crores approximat-
worth Rs.~ 21 crore was~ tch the smugglers red e3y in terms of inter-
seized~ on 26.6.81 n~ handed. As a result of -rrational market val~e
ar M~slim Bagh~~rhis their laborous efforts was found cancealed
~aas followed by anoth- finally,on 21.9.81 C~r in a specially constr-
er major~seizure of stoms riobile Squad ""ucted cavity in tfie--
620 Kg. Charas worth apprehanded one Toyota ~'loor of this ver~ir_le
P,s.2 erores near Rab- ~ Jeep_headinq towards ; Further~investigatia-
at on 9.9.1981.And nc~; Rabat about 70 miles~ ns are in progress tt~
the biggest ever sei- from Taftan in the cl- results of which wou]d
zure of heroine in Pa- ose proximity of Pak- be brought to light in
kistari and Asia and Afghan B~der on one due course of time.
one of the biggest s~ side and Pak-Iran bo- However judging from
izure in the recorded� rder on the other s~- the past trends, it
world hi'story of Nar- de. On seeing the Cus- appears that drug ped-
cotics has been effe- toms staff after them. dlers of N.W.F..P. in
cted near Rabat by se- the smugglers resorte collusion with their
izing 42 Kg.heroine. to intense firing wi counterparts in Balu-
The tiew! brk street the automatic weapons. chistan and Iran are
price of this is ap- The Customs officials at work. Using.great
proximately $ 63 mill undetered by this fi- ingenuity they trans-
ions i.e.Rs.63 crores. ring,however,continued port narcotics from ~
Brief details of this� their chase and were tribal territory of
seizure are as fo~lo- ultimately successful N,~~,F.P. to Baluchist
WS;_ in bursting the tyres an for onward dispatd~
Skillfully acting on of the vehicle.The SrTM to Iran wherefrom it
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is delivered to other
- international drug tr-
- affickers.
For their extra ard-
_ inary courage,will,d~
termination and devot
ion to duty,all Custo-
- ms officials who have �
been instrumental in
effecting this seizu ~
are being suitably re~
warded.
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PAKISTAN

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HEROIN ~r10RTH 2 MILLION RS SEIZED AT AIRpORT
:.arachi DAF1N 20 Sep 81 p 10
[Text j Discreet surveillance on a rilled in with entnes. He is sa~~
Paklstani national serving Sn to be employed a~ith ~audis
Saudi Arabla led to the recovery Met~l Company in Saudt Arabia
of twe kilograms ot fine herotn end 1s in-charge of 'purchase sec-
worth about Rs 3 milllon at she tton'. In pursuance of his job,
_ city airport yesterday, minutes ttre Customs said, he had been
befare h1s proposed departure to frequrntly visiting the USA and
Germany. other European countries durix~g
Saleem Sultan, aa electrical en- which he is understood to ~a~~e
glneer, accused of attempting to establlshed contacts a3th sume
scnuggle out herolII ~as later pro- "drug smugglers" for ahom ~e
duced before a local court. He aes _ taking the contTaban3 for
aas remanded in Customs cus- the flrst time, early inr�estigaticns
today up to Sept. 25. ~ have revealed.
After a br!eiing aG the alrport MAg,IJL'~LY~ SQZED
counter, the Drug Enforcement Meanachile, Sarachi Police
Cell officers lntercepted Sultan 8eized mariJuana ~seig~hing four
aho had been abroad many
times. He was searcfied but noth- lcllos t~o kilas irom Waris
ing was found cn his person, irom Sbarae Faisal and two ki;as
Fiowever, his baggage ylelded tc~o Srom one Mahmood of Quaidahad
kilas of heroin concealed iq tiie a-'ea. From Kalakot area, police
- false bottom of a suitcase. recovererl 250 grams irom ~e
Mohammad Asghar and 200
9aleem S~altan was proceeding Bi'ams lrom one Mohammacl
to Frankiurt on hL, way to tlie Shatnshad. All the accused t~ave
USA by a Lufthansa flight. He been' bocked under Iiudood Urdi-
had three pASSports - two were nance. ,
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PAKISTAN
NARCOTIC DENS PERSIST IN VIOLATION OF ISLAMIC LAW
Karachi JASARAT in Urdu 8 Aug 81 p 2
[Report by Maqsud Yousfi: "Narcotic Dens Are Turning Younger Generation into a
Blight on Society; Eighty Crime Dens Are Operating in Areas of Liaqat Abad, Nazim
Abad and Liari; Owners of These Narcotic Dens Pay Regular Compensation to Police"]
[Text] The local sub-divisional magistrate recently raided the dens of the city's
two notorious narcotic dealers, Saif-ur-Rahman and Hashim Khan and seized hundreds
- of thousands of rupees worth of liquor, mandrake, pathetdine, opium and other
narcotics. A still was also seized from one of the dens. There were drums of
alcohol mixed with coloring and called liquor. It has been noticed, however, that
after only a few days' break, these dens start operating with much more activity
- and momentum, We do not wish to mention the under-cover invalvement here. However,
it is usual with every cri~r~e center which the the police or any other agency has
raided, the ring-lead~er or owner of the den is never arrested. As a matter of fact,
after the introduction of Islamic law in the country, by President Zia-ul-Haq's
crder, all criminal cutiritus were banned. However, af ter an elapse of only a
month, these restrictions gradually diminished for some influential people. As a
result, many more dens are operating now. Besides gambling, prostitution, exhibi-
tion of Indian and nude films, liquor, mandrake, pathetdine, narcotics, alcoholic
drir~ks and opium are openly sold. The owners of these centers claim that they pay
regular compensation for the operation of their dens.
= According to a short survey, the areas of Liaqat Abad, Nazim Abad and Liari alone
have eighty notorious dens. Their owners earn hundreds of thousands of rupees
daily f~om these centers. The notorious drug dealers in Liaqat Abad are Saif-ur-
Rahman, Nazir Tedi and Hanif K. In Nazim Abad, there are Haji Saifullah, Miro,
Alanah, Muhammad Hussein, Haider and Adam Khan. In Liari, there are Nawaz, Ramzan,
Malik Niazi Nizam, Wassi Dad, Yaqub, Ismail, Agha Ahmad Bakhsh and Badshah Khan.
In Banaras, there are notorious dens of Babu Langhra, Baitullah alias Baitak, .~ailer,
Dil Murad, Dawoud, Rashid alias Shida, Zulaikha, Captain Sadho, Shah Nawaz, Sabrak,
Vaila, Ibrahim Langhra, Kadu Makrani, Ali alias Geeem and Maula Bakhsh alias Maulu.
- All these areas operate this condemned business.
Due to close contacts or under-cover influences of the den owners, the police takes
no action against them. Whenever, due to numerous protests by the inhabitants of
the affected area, a customary raid is conducted, the owners of the dens are never
arrested. The dens too, commence their activities after a day or two or else start
operating in a different place. Regrettably, a large number of youths are seen at
- these narcotic centers. Thus, becoming drug addicts at such a young age, they end
up as the future blight on society.
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PAKI STAN
BRIEFS
HEROIN HAUL ON BORDER--Mr Ghulam Ashraf Jehangir, member customs central board of
revenue, has said that Karachi customs house i~ being given additional logistic
support to intensify its antismuggling efforts with the acquisition of five fast
motorboats, a helicopter, latest arms and aum~unition and modern means of communi-
cations. He said the conventional thinking that narcot3cs were being smuggled out
by air route only had been negated b~ the recent aeizures of heroin on land and
sea routes, and particularly the seizure of 42 kg of heroin worth over Rs. 600
million in the international market near Taftan on Pak-Iran border. [GF0118~8
- Karachi DAWN in English 29 Sep 81 p 4 GF]
ISLAMABAD HIItOIN SEIZURE--The customs mobile squad hauled at a car in Islamabad
on 28 September and recovered four kilograms of heroin powder of fir.e quality.
One person was arrested. [Text] [Karachi Domestic Service 3n English 1700 GI~T
28 Sep 81 BK]
oPIUM, HASHISH SEIZURE--Quetta, Sept. 8--In a big haul. Preventive Staff of the Col-
lectorate of Customs has seized 620 Kgs of opium, 75 kgs of hashish and one pickup
without number plate at Rs.16 million near Rabat and Kartaka, 60 miles away from
Tuftan between Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran borders. According to a handout is-
~ sued by the Collectorate of Custom' in Quetta this afternoon the seizure was ma~le
after exchange of fire from both sides last evening. The Raiding party was led by
Assistant Collector Preventive 5ervices NLr. Sher Nawaz IQ1an. The smugqlers escaped
- under cover of fire. Further investigations are in proqress. [Text] [Quetta
BALUCHISTAN TIMES in Enqlish 9 Sep 81 p 4]
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PHILIPPINES
G~,`~IPAIGN TO C~iECK DRUG ~BliSE ORDERED
, ;~Sanila 3L`LLETIid TODr~Y in English 3 Sep 81 p 20
~Test~
~~~5 Ventmina t~at majarity drugs smuggled 3nto the
2-- A tail�,tarq oit~cer of these addicts were country from seveca~
~~E ~~~~y children of protninent 'Asian countries,
an altoat csmpaiga to families, Meanwhile~ a PC re�
check tt~e qid ~ Venturina asked ~e port confirmed the ar-
~ parents, membErs of re-
d~g nbust among the ligious and civic organ� rest of a woman be-
youch. raostfY stucients~ izations~ and sehool of- lieved to be a member
and drug pushing acciv- ficiats to join the cam- of a heroine syndicate.
ities in this city and paign in kine with Presi- T h~ suspect, whose
nearby Nfabalacat town. dent iVlarcos~ pronounce- name was witliheld
CcJI. Ernesta Venturi= ment ior wid~r citizen pendin~ the arrest of her
na, Angeles Metrodis- participation in combat- compan?es, 'ss no~w being
corn commander, direc- tzn~ drug menace. detained at the Consta-
_ ted Angeles polics chief PC reports said that b u 1 a ry anti-narcotics
Lt Col. Ahmed 9. Nac- tha supply of marijuana unit headquarters here.
I~i1 and Maj Ralar:da originated from planta- Veaturina also said
Cinco, Mabalacat police tions located in North- that only recently four
commander, to step up ern Luzon, Bagoia city, suspected drug pushers
the drive to prevent the tiueva Ecija, Tarlac, were arrested in a,raid
drug menac~ f r o m 7~ambaies, anc4 some conducted by polic� an-
parts of Pampanga, ti-narcotics operatives
spreading. Ied by L~ Pdardo Ramos
- The two police chiefs Prohibited drugs be- at the mar~juana. planta-
reported that about 20 ing used by Jtudents tion i~n Mayantoc. Tar-
per cern 0nd between were bought from the ]ac, Some 40Q fult-gro~wn
- ~p pet cznt and 40 per diit2rent drug stores marijuana plants were
cent (or roughly 10,000) while others were sup- uproote~ during the
o~ the student poPula- plied by drt~g pushing raid.
tion in colleges and uni- syndicates opecaUng in jn ~,~~cat, local
vecsities in As~Beles and Centrai Luzon.
tilabaIacat were suspect- Informed sour~ces said officials headed by :bla~
zd users ot prvhibited that C1ark Air base, the Yor W~fredo Halili map�
drugs~ partiwlarly mari- biggest Am~erican mili- p�d out plans ~ed at
juana. tary facility outside the minimizing, if not tc-
- ,iacpil and. Ciaco told US, was also one aP the tally eliminating, drug
sources of prokubited addiction among the
youth, (JJL)
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PHILIPPINES
BRIEFS
~ MARIHUANA PLANTATION DESTROXED--Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation [NBI]
uprooted recently some 10 million peso worth of mari~uana plants in a 5-hectare
plantation in a remote village in Benguet. NBI director Jolly Bugarin~ who
- dsscribed the plantation as the biggest ever found in the country, said it was
the source of marijuana being sold in metro Manila, Subic Naval Base and Clark
= Air Base. The discovery of 2he plantation wa~ made possible by the arrest of
2 couriers in Manila while in possession of 3 kilos of dried marijuana. The
suspects led operatives tc~ the plantation last Saturday. [Text] [HK080048
Alanila FEBC in English 2:t30 GMT 7 Sep 81]
INCREASED DRUG TRAFFIC--The Philippine Government was alerted yesterday by Thai
authorities of a possible increase of international drug traffic through Manila.
The alert came from Thai customs officials who are in Manila for the 20-nation
- customs conference. Thai officials confirmed that Manila is being used as a transit-
point ~y an [word indistinct] smaller trafftc drug syndicate wliich has U.S. and
Australian connections. The drug shipments are from the notorious Golden 'rriangle
- along the border of Burnia, Thailand and Laos. The transports are being usual~y
d~ne by planes and not ships as before. They said, an increase in drug smuggling
~ is expected due to a report that opium fa,rmers in the Golden Triangle are stepping
up production to make up for the drop in production in the past few years. [Text]
[HK180333 Manila FEBC in English 2330 GMT 17 Sep 81)
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SRI LANKA
~ BRIEFS
GANJA,HASHISH RECORD HAUL--A record haul of compressed ganja and hashish was
discovered at Colombo airport. The narcotics were concealed in 12 cartons of
tea and found in the personal luggage of a Sri Lankan who was proceeding to Paris.
The cartons contained 22 kilos of compressed cannab is--found to be of Lankan
origin--3nd 7.5 kilos of hashish--claimed by customs to have been smuggled from
Pakista~~--:~alued at Rs. 800,000. Documents recovered from the Lankan courier--a
former engineer--indicate that the smuggling attempt was linked to a massive
international drug trafficking network. A fine of Rs. 240,000 was imposed.
Inquiries are being conducted by the police narcotics bureau Co uncover the
Sri Lankan connection in what has not emerged as heavy traffjcking ir~ narcotics
from Sri Lanka. [Colombo SUN in English ?1 Sep 8L pp i, 2 BK
CSO: 5300/4505
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THAILAND
AEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OUTLINES OPIUM SUPPRESSION
BK230604 Bangkok Domestic Service in Thai 0000 GMT 23 Sep 81
[Text) Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prachuap Suntharangkun, who is one of the
officials to accompany the prime miniskpr during the forthcoming visit to the
United States, told newsmen that there would be discussion of narcotics suppression
cooperation between Thailand and the United Sta~es during the visit to that country.
He said that the Office of the Narcotics Control Board is now implementing the
project to replace opium with other crops.
Asked if the United States had forced Thailand to stop growing opium, the deputy
prime minister replied: To wipe out opium plantations and initiate the crop
substitution program is our policy. We have selected 52 villages to launch the
program. The hilltribe villages were chosen for the cultivation of other crops.
Five villages f inally passed the screening at the last month's meating in which
opium plantations will coinpletely be wiped out. These f ive villages are considered
to be economically well-off. The program for these villages will start in Navember.
The deputy prime minister revealed that the opium output in the golden triangle
this year is estimated at between 500 to 600 tons, close to that of last year.
- Some 50 tons were produced in Tha.i territory. The.Thai Government is trying to
minimize the area of opium cultivation for the 1982 season, which will start
between October and November.
Last week, the deputy prime minister said, a seminar was opened for court judges
from all over the country on narcotics problems and the necessity for an intensive
suppression campaign. He noted that it is a diff icult task to arrest producers
because they are f inancially strong. Meanwhile, the United States has been
- rendering Thailand its good cooperation to tackle this problem.
The deputy prime minister said that the Burmese Government was very helpful in
hunting down Khun Sa. He expected continuing good cooperation from the Burmese
Government. He told newsmen that he would later meet with the new Burmese ambassador
- to discuss this matter.
CSO: 5300/4506
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THAILAND
BORDER PATROL POLICE RAID HEROIN REFINERY
BK140713 Bangkok POST in English 14 Aug 81 p 1
[Story and pictures by Subin Khunkaeo] .
[Text] Chiang Rai--Helicopter-borne border patrol policemen and U.S. Drug Enforce-
ment Administration agents have raided a heroin factory, believed to be one of the
biggest captured in the last 10 years, and seized 3.6 tons of cooked opium after
a f ierce gunbattle with Chinese Haw guards.
Police sources told the POST yesterday that the factory was capable of producing
about 400 kilogranunes of heroin a month. An unspecified amount of heroin from this
year's opium crop had already been~moved out of the factory to dealers. i
The factory was built on a hill in Doi Huai Mak, about 1 kilometre fram the Burmese
border and about 10 kilometres west of Ban Hin Take in Mae Chan District.
The sources said that on Wednesday about 100 BPP men stormed the factory which was
reportedly guarded by 30 Chinese Haw ~uards armed with M-72 antitank rockets and
M-60 machineguns.
A raid on the heroin refinery was originally ordered by Pol Maj-Gen Wichai
Wichaithanaphat, commander of the third region border patrol police on Tuesday,
but it was called off shortly after the forces were airborne because of bad
weather.
When the weather unproved on Wednesday, a unit of 50 crack BPP men from the second
_ company in Mae Chan and DEA agents were airlifted in two police helicopters for
an assault on the refinery reportedly operated by an opium kingpin with Yunnanese
connections.
- Police sources said that as soon as the heliborne officials landed in Doi Huey Mak,
they ran into volleys of rocket and gunfire from the factory's guards. Realising
they were outgunned they called for reinforcements and another batch of 50 border
patrol policemen from Ban Hin Taek was immediately dispatched to Doi Huey Mak in
the two helicopters. But they could not land because of heavy fighting on the ground
and poor visibility.
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The two choppers turned back and returned later after weather conditions i.mproved,
but had to circle overhead while BPP men hastily made a new landing zone by chopping
- down trees. The sources said that when the helicopters finally did land, the
Chinese Haw guards opened fire on them with M-60 machineguns but misszd.
Now outnumbered the guards retreated into the jungle, taking some caGUalties.
All the BPP and DEA men were unharmed.
When officials raided the refinery, they discovered six 200-litre oi1 drums filled
with prepared opium, one AK rifle and an M-72 rocket launcher, three stoves, two
huge pans, eight 20-litre plastic cans and large quantities of ether and chloroform
for making heroin.
The refinery measured lOm x 50m and was built with timber under a cluster of trees
to avoid detection from the air. Next to it was a kitchen and a pen with f ive
mules.
Off icials said heroin refineries are usually located near streams or other water
sources. But the ~iol Huai Mak factory was sit2d on a hill and obtained its water
from a waterfall through a crude distribution system.
The refinery, chemicals and opium could not be transported by helicopter to the BPP
garrison and was set on fire.
A helicopter pilot reported seeing several mules carrying heavy packs being hastily
herded out of the factory compound during the f ighting which lasted from about
8 am to 2 pm. He estimated that as many as 50-60 kilogrammes of heroin were moved
out by the mule caravan.
Officials estimated the drug haul, factory and equipment were worth about 40 million
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THAILAND
PAPER BLASTS U.S. ENVOY REMARKS ON DRUGS
BK030513 Bangkok NATION REVIEW in English 3 Sep 81 p 4
[Editorial: "Excuses Mustn't Lower Our Guard Against Drugs"]
[Text] The Thai Government~should take drastic action against the cultivation of
poppy, prevent the opium produced by being refined into heroin and arrest the
kingpins of the narcotics trade. These are monotonous and unimaginative variations
of an outworn theme that have cropped up for the umpteenth time in the regional
narcotics conference being held here and attended by representatives of U.S.
_ diplomatic missions in the East Asian and Pacif ic regions. It is not that U.S.
Charge D'affaires Burton Levin does not know this but since all angles have been
repeated ad nauseum, he was forced to fall back on an old formula. .
But he has also completely whitewashed the charges he levelled against Thailand
by saying that the control of the heroin ref ineries are located in the no-man's
land of the Thai-Burmese border controlled by the Shan United Army of Burma led
by drug kingpin Chang Chifu and abetted by deals with the Burmese Communist Party.
However, the fact remains according to him, and we concede the point, that poppy
is being grown in the northern hi11s of Thailand bq tribal folk. But he appears
to minimise the problem and possibly believes that poppy-growing can be halted
overnight by waving the magic wand to crop substitution. From the highest authority
in the land to the lowest ranked bureaucrat, all have tried and are trying to
substitute cash crops for popply but it will take time to eliminate the centuries-
old means of livelihood for the hill tribes. ~
This is no apology f or poppy-growing, opium-refining, or for heroin trafficking
since we have condemned and will continue to condemn in the strongest terms
possible this pandering to human misery. But at the same time we strongly object
to Thailand being forced to carry the stigma alone for the international narcotics
trade. Further, Levin has also resorted to juggling statistics when hQ sa;�s that
Thailand has half a million drug addicts while the United States has less th~n
400,000 because addicts in Thailand then reach an astronomical proportion considering
Thailand's population is roughly only one-fifth of the population of the United
States.
These figures may be true if only marijuana and heroin are taken into account but
in the United States such drugs as cocaine and LSD are also very popular, not to
mention 'uppers` and 'downers'. Also, a whole culture--commonly called the 'yellow
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~ulture'--has sprung i.n the United States and is based on the use of drugs,
somethir.g that has not and will not happen in Thailand. A little over_ 20 years
ago, opium smoking was legal in Thailand and although it def initely had a detrimental
effect on the human potential in this country, it certainly did not produce a
drug-based 'culture'.
Thailand has tough anti-narcotic laws although Singapore's mandatory death sentence
for drug trafficking is tougher. However, Thailand has executed certain key men
who have been found to be guilty of large-scale distribution of drugs. But as
Levin himself has said, the problem of completely suppressing the ref inizg of opium
- is one th.at has been defying solution for a long time because of the fluid situation
along the Thai�-Burma border.
While the primary blame should be p'laced on the so-cal.led drug kingpins who refine
opium and trade wholesale in heroin, there have also been several "Westerners who
have been caught trying to smuggle heroin out of Thailand." No doubt they have
faced harsh sentences and, in Thai prisons, there is no molly-coddling of prisoners
as is the case in the United States and Western Europe. Often pressure is brought
on the Thai Government to show leniency toward these convicted drug traff ickers.
Prime Piinister Prem Tinsulanon has ~ust faced such a problem in Australia.
_ But, when all is said and done, the Thai Goverrnnent should move with greater
alacrity in tackling the problem of poppy growing and suppressing heroin trafficking.
Both of these eff orts may prove extramely difficult but tha.t should be no excuse.
Let us take to heart the positive elements which this conference has brought out
and concentrate-on them. There has been a bumper crop of opium this year. It
is time for tYie authorities to gird up their loins and put their best feet forward
to prevent refined drugs reaching addicts in Thailand and abroad.
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THAILANU
ONCB POPPY DESTRUCTION DRIVE
BK151352 Bangkok Voice of Free Asia in English 1100 GMT 15 Sep 81
[Text] The Office of the Narcotics Control Board will launch a campaign in
November to raze out poppy f ields in 10 villages in Chiang Mai.
Secretary General of the Office of Narcotics Control Board Pol Maj Gen Phao Sarasin
told a press conference yesterday that a crop replacement program had been introduced
in these villages, and it would not be necessary for the hilltribes people there
to continue growing poppy. A combined force of civilians and border patrol police
will be employed in the mission.
Meanwhile, the secretary general of the Off ice of the NarcoCics Control Board
denied the report that the United States Government is mounting pressures on
Thailand to destroy the opium cultivation in the northern part of the country,
saying that the Thai Government has always had the policy to eradicate opium
- culture.
General Paho said the Thai Government during the past years successfully encouraged
hilltribesmen in 38 villages in the north ~o grow other cash crops as substitute
for opium. He said the hilltribesmen in the areas have earned enough income and
do not have to resort to growing opium for a living anymore.
The chief of the antinarcotics organization said it was agreed during a recent
meeting of the aurhorities to expand the areas in which the opium substitute project
will be carried out from 38 villages to 52. He said the government also planned
to destroy opium cultivation in 10 other villages in the north in which villagers
are able to earn their living through other means.
When asked about narcotics suppression being launched by the government on sea
coast drug smuggling route, General Phao said Thailand has received good cooperation
fram Hong Kong and Malaysia. He said the Malaysian Gover~?ent is to promulgate
a law to control the use of chemicals which are used in producing heroin. General
Phao said these chemicals are very difficult to obtain in Thailand, so smugglers,
traffickers have taken to shipping morphine into Malaysia.
CSO: 5300/4506
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THAILAND
KHUN SA OFFERS TO HALT OPIUM TRADE
BK170102 Bangkok POST in English 17 Sep 81 p 3
[Text] Khun Sa, said to be a narcotics kingpin of the "golden triangle," has
again offered his cooperation in ending opium cultivation and drug trafficking in
the region. He said he was determined to see o~ium wiped out. "The important
point is that the Thai Government must give me powers," he said and proposed that
the government acts as an intermediary between him and the Uni.ted States for
d iscussion on ways and mpans ~f stamping out opium and its derivatives.
In a typed statement issued, at his Ban Hin Taek stronghold near the Burmese border,
Khun Sa, leader of the Shati United Army, said that if his overt~ire was positively
accepted he beli eved he would be able to stamp out.the opium business.
He recalled that he once offered similar help and cooperation "but it was rejected
outright and, moreover, I was accused of being a narcotics trafficker." That was
in April 1978, when Khun Sa proposed a 6-year plan to phase out opium cultivation
in Shan State to Mr Joseph Nellis, a representative of U.S. Senator [as published]
_ Lester Wolff.
The project envisions a gradual phase-out of opium cultivation, with the United
States buying up opium crops during the 6-year period, and the introduction of
crop substitution. "But instead the United States borrowed the hands of Ne Win
who used his troops to destroy the opium crops and ban the people from growing
opium. That was driving the people to starvation and for the sake of their own
survival they continue to grow opium.
""in the U.S., if the farmers do not grow barley, they will have no bread to eat,"
Khun Sa said.
"Opium cultivation has been practised in Shan State for almost 200 years, but I
am only a bit more than 40 years old. Why must it be me? Why should I be accused
of being a drugs producer? That's very unfair," he complained.
Khun Sa, alias Chang Shi-fu, said that even if he were dead, opium would not simply
disappear from Shan State. He recalled that when Lo Hsing-han, another drug ~king-
pin, and himself were imprisoned by the Burmese Government several years ago,
narcotics still managed to get out of the golden triangle to markets in Europe,
the United States and Australia. Khun Sa said the Burmese Gover~ent was pleased
that the Thai Government had put up a price for his capture "as that means opening
a door for the Burmese socialist and communists to arrive at Thailand's doorstep."
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THAILAND
ONCB HEAD COMMENTS ON REWARD FOR KHUN SA
BK210616 Bangkok POST in English 20 Sep 81 p 3
[Text] The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) will renew and possibly
increase the reward for the arrest of alleged drugs kingpin Khun Sa after it
expires in September next year, ONCB Chairman Gen Prachuap Suntharangkun said
yesterday.
Narcotics agents on Friday expressed puzzlement as to why the reward f or the capture,
dead or alive, of the suspected golden triangle drugs smuggler was valid only
until 30 September next year.
Gen Prachuap said yesterday that ONCB realised that with the current reward offer
of 500,000 baht, it would not be easy to arrest Khun Sa, also known as Chang Chi-fu.
He said the ONCB would consider increasing the reward. The time limit on the
reward offer was set in order to allow the ONCB to consider its renewal in the future,
he explained.
"Khun Sa is the most influential drugs kingpin of Che golden triangle," General
Prachuap said. "When the reward for his capture was announced, Khun Sa and his
men became very cautious and they moved beyond the Burmese border."
Khun Sa has reportedly moved from his former stronghold in Ban Hin Taek near Mae
Chan District of Chiang Rai and is now based inside Burma, about 7 kilometers from
the border.
Asked how the Thai Government would react to Khun Sa's recent offer to cooperate
in ending opium cultivation and drugs traff icking in the~region, General Prachuap
said, "The man can do whatever he likes, but we are not going to make any deals
with him."
He said the Thai Gover~ent would work only with the Burmese Goverrnnent as far as
- suppression of opium cultivation and drugs trafficking were concerned.
Thailand and Burma have a good diplomatic relationship and have been cooperating
on drugs suppression for years, he said. He added that it woul.d be good if Khun
Sa could stop drugs traff icking and acts of sedition against Burma and Thailand.
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THAILAND
BRIEFS
NEW PROGRAM TO START--Pol Maj Gen Phao Sarasin, secretary general of the Narcotics
Control Board Office [NCBO],~ has disclosed that the NCBO has mapped out a new
program to wipe out opium growing in hilltribes villages. Despite the successful
implementation of the crop substitution program in the northern provinces,
particularly in Chiang Mai Province, and the consequent in increase in hilltribes
people's income, many hilltribes villages still grow opium. Moreover, the Thai
lowlanders reportedly have hired hilltribes to grow opium or used their villages
as places to hide their opium. The NCBO therefore has decided to launch this new
program. Besides, the hilltribes people whose villages have been developed should
stop growing opium, otherwise, they will face punishment. Pol Maj Gen Phao Sarasin
said that suppression will be initially launched in Chiang Mai Province, where
most of the hilltribes v~llages have been developed. The suppression and develop-
ment units.will be working separately. [Text) [BK271238 Bangkok Domestic Service
in Thai 0000 GMT 27 Sep 81]
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CANADA
EDITORIAL CITES PLIGHT OF CUSTOMS SERVICE IN DRUG FIGHT
Windsor THE WINDSOR STAR in English 21 Sep 81 p 6
[Editorial: "Customs--Victims ~f Ottawa's Apathy"]
[ Te xt ]
While customs~~officers in Windsor apparently taking advantage of the
and other centres along the Canada- situatiorr.
U.S. border worry~about their safety. "Th~e importers realize:our problem
from "weirdos"' crossing, customs . and a~e willing to take a chance and
officers in Vancouver and other sea- ~ do a bit of smugg(ing. Why not? Yoa
ports worry over their inability to have a 90 per cent chance of getting
_ check cargoes urrloaded in their ports. . away with it " explained one veteran
In Vancouver, Canada's biggest Vancouvar customs officer.
seaport, demoralized customs officers . 1'vl~anpower shortages are a key fac-
recently adm'itted they've lost control - tor in this crisis. , .
of the situatiun and~the port is now a In th~ Vancouver area 300 customs
smuggler's paradise. ~ officials are trying to cope annually
- Drugs, jewelry, and othe~ contra- with 2,300 deepsea freighters, 4,500
band are. 'pouring into Canada other commercial vessels, and hun-
through the Vancouver customs sieve. ; dreds of thousands of passengers ar-
Part of the problem is the move to riving by ship, plane, and by car from
large metal containers for shippin~ the U.S. ,
Freight. . " . Movemer~t of cargo through Van-
Sometimes as many as 10,000 con- couver has grown rapidly in the past
ta~ners are stacked, on the Vancouver five years but there has been no in-
docks, far too many for customs offi- crease in customs staff:
cers to inspect. The federal government is clearly
At one time 40 per cent ~of all cargo guilty .of negligence in allowiag the
going through Vancouver was situation to deteriorate so dramatical-
checked for contraband but now only ly. ~ ~
10 per cent is examined. It's an atl too rare pleasure to see
Customs officers say they've been Ottawa pinch pennies but in this in-
reduced to ~lerks rubberstamping the stance the thrifty approach makes
mo~~ement of goods. little sense.
Nobody knows how much contra- : Vancouver is the main port of entry
band is being smuggled into Canada for ~much of Canada's heroin.
via Vancouver but some importers are
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,
Why spend millions of tax dollars ,
vainly trying to stamp out drug traf-
ficking across Canada if we're not
~villing to make a se~rious attempt to
keep drugs from entering the coun-
~
try?
The manpower freeze may also be
shortsighted on a dollars and cents
basis. -
Many firms are~allegedly undervalu- ,
ing the goods they import to avoid
paying full duty.
That's money which could be flow-
ing into the hard-pressed federal trea-
- sury and which could pay for part of
- the cost of hiring additional customs
~ officers to check what comes into the
country. ~ ~ '
Ottawa should make up its mind.
Either pcovide an effective customs '
service or drop the. masquerade and
- leave the nation's doors wide open.
They're hardly closed right now.
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CANADA
_ BRIEFS
HASHISH SEIZED--Montreal (CP)--Four people have been charged after RCNIP narcotics
agents discovered 450 kilograms of powdered hashish worth $6-million among a ship-
ment of Lebanese candies. Insp. Alphonse Brault sa3,d yesterday the suspects were
arrested this week during raids in Montreal and nearby Valleyf ield. H~e said the
- hashish was shipped from Beirut via a U.S. port, where suspicious customs officers
tipped their Canadian colleagues. [Text] [Toromto THE GLOBE AND MAIL, NATIONAL
EDITION in English 27 Aug 81 p 5]
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BAHAMAS
. BRIEFS
QUAALUDE CLASSIFICATION--The Minister of Health and National Insurance, Perry
Christie, today made an order under the Dangerous Drug Act declaring methaqua-
- lone, commonly known as quaaludes, "a dangerous drug." The effect of the Min-
- ister's order will render possession of the drug without lawful authority an
offence under the Dangerous Drug Act. Every person guilty of an offence against
the Dangerous Drug Act shall in respect of each offence, be liable on conviction
on information, to a fine of $5,000 or to imprisonment for ten years, or to both
such fine and imprisonment. On summary conviction, the guilty person is liable
to a fine of $1,500, or to imprisonment for two years, or to both such fine
and imprisonment. [Text] [Nassau THE TRIBUNE in E?zglish 28 Aug 81 p 1]
DRUG SHIP SEIZURES--~ao 'mother' drug ships were apprehended by the Bahamas
Defence Force near Ragged Island Monday with up to 1,100 bags of marijuana on
board. Five Cuban-Americans and eight Colombians have been taken into custody.
The Defence Force vessel Inaugua,under the command of Lieutenant Jackson Ritchie,
accosted the drug ships while on a routine patrol in the southern Bahamas. The
alleged drug runners did not put up any resistance, but once tried to ram the
Inaugua, according to Ritchie. On board the fifty-foot vessel Star Pagus was
approximately 200 to 300 bags of marijuana and five Cuban-Americans. The other
ship the 80-foot Mary Gloria, was stacked with 700 to 800 bags of mari3uana.
There were eight Columbians aboard. Both ships were brought to New Providence
yesterday afternoon. The Cuban-Americans and Colombians are presently being
processed before being charged with illegal possession of marijuana. [Text]
[Nassau THE TRIBUNE in English 2 Sep 81 p 1]
5-VESSEL INCIDENT--HMBS Exuma under the command of Lieutenant Commander Bache-
lette LaFleur yesterday seized five boats and apprehended 11 foreigners in the
area of Cay Sal Bank in the western Bahamas.' Exuma was reportedly on routine
patrol when the foreign craft were spotted. The vessels were escorted to Nassau
late Wednesday by ExLmma, assisted by another Defence Force vessel "Fort Montagu."
The nationality of the men arrested is believed to be American and Cuban Ameri-
can. The suspects are presently being processed by the drug and serious crime
sections of the Criminal Investigation Department. Approximately 100 bags of
- marijuana were said to have been discovered aboard the vessels. [Text] [Nassau
THE TRIBUNE in English 27 Aug 81 p 1]
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BERMUDA
. ~
. .
BRIEFS
JAIL FOR COCAINE--A Paget man who was found with 1.09 gra~es of cocaine in his
possession, was sentenced to six months imprisonment. Terry Wayne Battersbee,
of Ord Road, Paget, was arrested on Front Street on February 17 under suspicion
of possessing illegal drugs. A subsequent search revealed the cocaine. [Excerpt]
[Hamilton THE ROYAL GAZETTE in English 29 Aug 81 p 2]
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' BOLIVIA
ANTIDRUG LAW TO BE AMENDID
PY181734 La Paz Radio Illimani Network in Spanish 1130 GMT 18 Sep 81
[Text]
[Text~ The national antidrug law approved in June 1979 has been implemented by the govern-
ment s~ as t~> carry out a frontal attack on drug trafficking and to overcome severe
international problems. This infurmation has been diaclosed by Justice Under Secretary
Rolando Simbron during a press conference held yesterday, .
[Begin Simbron Recording] The administration of Gen Celso Torrelio Villa will carry
out the hard task of eradicating drug trafficking. [end recording]
Simbron also announced that the government has issued precise instructions within the
framew~rk of its antidrug struggle. To this effect it has sent notes to the nation's
attorney general. to the chairman of the Supreme Court of Justice of La Paz, to the
director Qeneral of the Dangerous Drug Department and to the chairman of the Supreme Court
~f Sucre.
[Begin Simbron recordingj Pursuant to the notes exchanged between the U.S. Embassy and
the Bolivian foreign minister, and the verbal note of our Foreign Ministry, the national
antidrug law will be amended in those articles which jeopardize the egalitarian implemen-
tation of the law in order to do away with discriminatione due to nationality or place
of birth. The Bolivian Covernment feels that the elimination of certain articles of the
antidrug law, which have led to nonegalitarian treatment of Bolivians and foreignera,
in order to enforce the principle that everybody is equal before the law, would be a
_ positive step forward toward overcoming whatever obstacles there may be for the swift
normalization of diplomatic relations with the United States. [end recordingj
Ttie justice under secretary also announced that he had given inatructions to the director
of the National Dangerous Drugs Department, Capt (Javier Guerrero).
(Begin Simbron recording] ...I have instructed the public prosecutors to discontinue
the application of Decree Law 18,254 date 5 May 1981, which will be abrogated by means
of a decree law that will be issued as soon as possible.
I would like to tell you, gentlemen of the press and the public at large, that my under-
secretariat is working on a decree law whose only resolution etates: � �
Pursuant to appropriate conaiderations, Decree Law 18,254 dated S May 1981 is hereby
suspended and Decree I.aw 16,562 dated 13 June 1979 is put into effect until new decree
laws on dangerous drugs control can be issued.
I must also report that a commission charged with studying the decree law, which has
been suspended, will be appointed. [end recordingJ
The under secretary reiterated that the main purpose of the new legal framework is to
ensure that ever~body will be equal before the law.
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BOL IVIA
BRIEFS
ANTIDRUG-TRAFFICKING CRUSADE--Minister Secretary of Information Jaime Humerez Seleme
has asserted that the government will take all due legal actions against any
persons who has been involved in drug traffick~.ng, without any kind of considerations
whatever. The decision was made during the Cab3net meeting held at Government
- Palace, after Foreign Minister Gonzalo Romero gave a detailed report on the basic
problems related to the image of the country abroad. Humerez Seleme announced
that a national crusade had been ordered to �ight the illegal drug trafficking
in the country with the participation not only of the specif ic law enforcement
organizations and the courts, but of all the people. The information minister
said that persons involved in drug traff icking w i11 be punished with all the force
of the law. The government spokesman spoke with newsmen shortly after the Cabinet
meeting which was presided over by Gen Celso Torrelio Villa. He said that a big
information meeting had been ordered regarding the repression of drug trafficking.
Humerez stressed that it is the government's intent3on to effectively show its firm
determination to eradicate and combat this evil which affects the image of the
country. [Excerpts] [PY170250 La Paz Radio Illimani Network in Spanish 0100 GMT
17 Sep 81]
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CHILE
BRIEFS
HASHISH TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED--The~police have arrested (Douglas Bobadilla Soto),
30, who ran a clandestine laboratory for hashish production. (Guillermo Vargas),
(Oscar Saravia Tapigueiro) an d(Andres Ariana), who were in charge of selling
the drug, were also arrested. [PY261725 Santiago Chile Domestic Service
in Spanish 0000 GMT 26 Sep 81 PY]
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� COLOMBIA
COMPLICATIONS IN 'COCAINE QUEEN' TRIAL
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spar.ish 21 Aug 81 p 11-A
[Text] The much-talked-about trial of the "cocaine queen" has been unable
to proceed because of recent developments, and the delay will reportedly
enable the defendant to remain free until it is learned whether the Bogota
Superior Court upholds her indictment or ordera a temporary or permanent stay.
Because of the new setbacks, her case will now go before the Supreme Court
for the second time.
The Facts
The incidents occurred at the culmination of a routine narcotics squad
- operation by the Attorney General's Office. Hector Rodriguez Espinosa was
intercepted by secret agents as he was driving away from the house of Mre
Marleni Orejuela Sanchez; they found a package continaining several kilograma
of cocaine in the vehicle. Rodriguez Espinosa was taken back to her house,
where they arrested the woman and aearched the t~ouse but uncovered no drugs.
An investigation was begun, and Marleni Orejuela was described as "the
cocaine queen," because she had been confuaed with Veronica Rivera; never-
theless, the nickname stuck in the presa. Both ahe and Rodriguez Espinosa
were placed under arrest.
First Incident
The first incident led to the intervention of the Superior Council of the
Judicature. The trial judge, Leonor Izquierdo de Pava, after questioning
Marleni, released her, arguing that the deadline for iasuing an arrest
warrant had passed snd that the court still lacked the evidence for it.
The episode concluded, at least partially, when the Superior Council
dismissed the judge, although ahe later isaued the arrest warrant, and the
accused was taken into custody in the western part of the country and brought
to Buen Pastor Prison. At the same time, an order was issued for a criminal
investigation of the judge, which was conducted by the Superior Court.
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_ T~ao Technical Investigations
The trial documents included a declar.ation made by Rodriguez Espinoaa at
Marleni's house on the same day that he was captured with the drug.
- According to the statement, Rodriguez ~spinosa admitted that the woman had
given him the drug.
However, during the course of the investigation Rodriguez Eapinosa denied
- that he had ever made such a statement ~nd said that the signature on the
document was not his.
A forensic medicine investigation was then ordered, and the graphology
exper~~_s decided that the signature on the document was not Rodriguez
Espinosa's.
The court called for another investigation and sent the matter to the DAS
[Adrainistrative L~epartment of Security] wtiose experts concluded that the
signature was~ Rodriguez Espinosa's. The court thus had before it two
diametrically opposed findings.
Around that time, some rather mysterious incidents took place at Buen Pastor
Prison that culminated with the dismissal of the warden, who was allegedly
collaborating with the "cocaine queen."
When the case came before the court to hear the appeal filed by the two
defendants, judicial surveillance had to be inatituted in asa~gning it
because a certain judge was said to have already been chosen. This and
other subsequent incidenta gave rise to a series of death threats against
a high-level official.
The case was heard by Judge Joaelyn Gomez Medina, who conducted the pertinent
proceedings to rule on the appeal motion along with his colleagues Augusto
Lozdno and Pantaleon Mejia Garzo~i.
The judge declared himself disqualified in the wake of abeurd rumors that
were going around. His argument was that Mre Orejx~ela Sanchez's attorney
was former Judge Jose Maria Velasco Guerrero, with whom he was close friends.
The other two court judgea rejected hia disqualification, and the tuatter wae
brought before the Supreme Court, which ruled that there were no grounds for
Gomez Medina's disqualification and that he ahould continue to hear the case.
A few weeks ago, another division of the court, headed by Judge Augusto
Lozano and of which Judge Mejia Garzon was also part, concluded the case
against former Judge Leonor Izquierdo de Pava, whom it suspended permanently.
This was how things stood when the judge hearing the main case, Joaelyn Gomez
Medina, submitted to his colleagues, Mejia Garzon and Lozano, a provisional
decision on the appeal of the indictment.
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Judge Mejia Garzon proceeded to diaqualify himself, contending that when he,
along with his fellow judges Lozanu and Jorge Ortiz Rubio, had decided ~o
suspend Leonor Izquierdo de Pava, their ruling had set forth grounds that
were re?ated to the substance of the case against Mra Marleni Orejuela
Sanchez and that he therefore felt that he ahould be diaqualified.
The other two judges, Gomez Medina and Lozano, rejected his disqualification,
and the matter will thus go before the Supreme Court once again.
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- COLOMBIA
TRAFFICKING IN 'EL MODELO' PRISON DESCRIBED
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 7 Aug 81 p 8-B
[Article by German Navarrete]
[Text] Even though the inmatesat Modeio Prison are fed good meals in a clean
dining hall, they prefer to take their breakfast, lunch and dinner in dirty,
foul-smelling wooden huts.
The reason? In the huts, which are called "caspetes" [chow],they can buy what
the dining hall does not sell: sandwichea with marihuana and soft drinks with
Mandrax.
This was one of the reasons why hundreds of inmates rioted when the prison
warden began moving against the huts and other goings-on.
The prison management changed the dining system when it discovered
irregularities in the preparation of the meals by the inmates who had been
antrusted with this work. This job is handled today by a specialized
private firm run by a retired colonel, to insure that.the food is of good
quality and provided in equal amounts ta the inmates.
EL TIEMPO toured the blocks where on Tuesday aeveral inmatea armed with knives,
sticks, spikes, clubs and pieces of glasa attacked whomever they could.
"We were afraid...real afraid...Some people atarted crying hyeterically when
they saw guys beside them beinb knifed, becauee they knew that they would be
next even though they didn't do anything..." several of the "special prieonere"
from cellblock 5 said.
Many of them agreed on this significant detail: "If it were not for Colonel
Rojas, we wouldn't be here to tell the tale." They were referring to the
action taken by the warden general of prison~, Salomon Rojas Orjuela, who
ordered hundreds of the men from cellblock 5 Cransferred to a carridor just
as the "grass smokers" from cellblock 4. began attacking the unsuspecting
inmates with knives and spikes.
In their tour through the cellblocks the reporters spoke with numerous inmates
in an attempt to establish the cause of the riot.
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Emaciated �aces, bitter looks and a sign of appreciation here and there for
the intereat in their state of health, were the hallmarka of conversations
with individuals who just a few houra before had experienced fear and tierror
and who were today seeing how th~ "caepetes" had been destroyed.
Our talks with the inmates took place beaide huts where the stench was ~
unbearable and food blended with grime. From one of the "caspetes" was taken
a pound of coffee containing a spike that was ne~er used.
Continual Nightmare
Two hours of conversation with inmates in varioua cellblocks, corridora and
the infirmary led us to the startling concluaion that over ite 28-year
_ history Modelo Prison has become a"hell" for some and a den of iniquity for
others.
"Along each corridor 44 of ua inmates live in aeparate cells. The doors to
the cells have been destroyed to make knives, and that's why you're awakened
every night by other peaple's shouting or with a blade by your neck or chest,
_ held there by the guys who rob and rape you," several inmatea claimed.
- The warden explained that 1,000 individual cells lack doors, which cost
20,000 pesos each. New ones are not being ordered because there is no money
for them. Robbery and rape take place all the time. The inmates, especially
the peaceful ones, are li~ting a continual nightmare.~
Oranges with Marihuana and Liquor
As many as 5,000 people are crowded together in these degrading surroundinga,
where all of the cellblocks smell of urine, and their needs were being met
by peddlers, stall vendora and owners of "caspetes." Th e latter proliferated
to the point that they formed rowa aimilar to the atanda along lOth Avenue and
llth Street or in San Vitorino.
Items were distributed by 700 registered peddlers within the prison,
who could enter and leave the cellblocks without being checked and who at
night had permission to bring their wares into their cells. The itema were
supplied as in a normal businesa, and the owners of aome "caspetes" ordered
from markets that supplied them weekly.
The inmates are allowed visits from their wives, and some of them, under this
pretext, have gotten a girlfriend or other contact to bring them drugs hidden
in oranges.
The guards would commonly see inmates devouring oranges with gusto, savoring
every last piece.
One of them was curious about the oranges in one of the cellblocka and got quite
a surprise when he diacovered that part of the inside had been �-emoved and
replaced with marihuana, hard liquor or some other subetance.
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Within this smoothl~~ run, apparently harmlesa buaineas a veritable network
of middlemen had developed over time to provide any inmate with whatever he
needed, either through the peddlers, the atalls or the "caspetes."
A Lucrative Business from Waiting on Lines
But if the drug business was floi~rishing inside the jail, the possibilities
outside were no less lucrative.
_ The residents of the Puente Aranda district had become used to aeeing enormous
lines of inen and women start forming around the jail at midnight before
visiting days, lines that always lasted until 1300 hours the following afternoon.
What they did not know at first but what gradually became common knowledge was
that the lines outside Modelo Prison had turned into an excellent buaineas
because of the excellent prices that people arriving at 0800 hours and wanting~
to get in to see their sons or husbands would pay for spots on line.
The situation was completely beyond the controlof the prison because the lines
were on a public thoroughfare, and the only way to break up these dealings was
to monitor access by order of arrival on line.
~
(18~0 hours. When you arrive, you show a visitor's-~ ~
Today, the lines begin at
pass issued by a cnurt and you are given a number on line. Conjugal visits
are for wivPs only, and children under 12 cannot enter.
This new control measure was another cause of the riot.
Knives From Water Pipes
To the occasional visitor, the fetid odor in all the cellblocks is evidence
of a poorly run jail and the reason why the huts are so filthy.
Nevertheless, the inmates admit that many of them use all sorts of ir.struments
to loosen the inside water pipea in bathrooms, in corridora and even in the
kitchen.
When the pipes are loose, they rip them out when the guards are not looking,
return to their cells, find a way to break them open and carve knives that
can gradually be sharpened and hidden anywhere.
The officials who put down the riot said that this~was where the dozens of
knives, spikes and up to 1-meter long bars came from.
Water began flowing again yesterday, although there is not enough money to
repair all of the damage that the pipe system has suffered.
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The yard of cellblock 4 at Model Prison in Bogota, where the riot that
left 2 dead and 48 wounded began on Tuesday. To the right and on the far
left are the huts where sales of marihuana, drugs, liquor and knives were
recently stopped, which was one of the reasons for the disturbance. Up above
is one of the holes through which the most dangerous inmates got into cell-
block 5 to waylay and knife the "special F~isoners."
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_ COLOMBIA
COCAINE SEIZED AT ELDORADO AIRPORT
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 18 Aug 81 p 23-A
[Text] Personnel from the Narcotics Squad of the Attorney General's Office
seized 24 kilograms of top quality cocaine valued at more than 20 million
on the black market at Eldorado International Airport yesterday.
The drug was hidden in a travel bag that arrived on Viasa flight 921-16.
It was not learned whether anyone was ari�ested. The only report was that
investigations were under way to determine the whereaboutis of the individuals
who were supposed to pick up the drug.
The only distinguishing mark on the bag in which the cocaine was hidden was
the number 67.
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COLOMBIA
~
METHAQUALONE RAIDS DESCRIBED
Bogota EL ESPECTADOR in Spanish 25 Aug 81 p 11-A
[Text] The Narcotics Squad of the Attorney General's OfEice aeized 2,900
kilograms of inethaqualone in four major raide this June at Eldorado
International Airport. The methaqualone wae destroyed laet weekend.
The dangerous subatance, which drug traffickere have been using to make
hallucinogenic pills sold under the namea "Jumbo," "R~~ger" and Mandrax," was
destroyed at the aforementioned airport with help frc~m the Bogota Fire
_ Department, whose units proceeded to dissolve the po~uder in water and dump
it down a sewer.
Germany
The methaqualone arrived in four large ehipments fro~m Germany th~t wpre
addressed to laboratories that investigations proved did not exiat. They
were most likely going to be claimed by individuals with aliasea, but
Attorney General's Office officials fortunately uncnvered them in time and
confiscated them before they fell into the handa of the traffickers.
Since the shipments came from Germany, a commission from the Attorney General's
Office was sent there to try and uncover the branches of the gangs involved
in the importation of the drug, but the investigationa did not yield satis-
factory results because methaqualone can be aold legally there and it is
therefore very difficult to eatablish the identity of the individuals who
purchase it.
The Investigation
In spite of thia setback, the investigation is continuing in Bogota under
the direction of 20th criminal court judge Dr Julio Gilberto Lancheros. He
_ apparently has evidence that might lead to the identification of the
individuals who brought in the dangeroua raw material to be converted into
hallucinogenic tablets and marketed not only in Colombia but in the United
States as well, where each pill aells for between $5 and $10.. _
Stemming the Trafficking
We should add that the seizure of the methaqualone was a serious blow to the
organizations involved in drug trafficking and that aince the raids by th e
Attorney General's Office, the underground sales of these items have fallen
_ sharply in the country.
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COLOMBIA
COCAINE 'WAR' IN CAUCA DESCRIBED
Bogota CROMOS in Spanish 25 Aug 81 pp 45-52
[Article by Carlos Mauricio Vega: "Cocaine: The White War"]
[Text] A sordid battle for cocaine dollars has been goi~ng on for 2 years
now. It began when Colombia stopped growing marihuana and became the number
one producer of pure cocaine, supplying 70 percent of the world market. The
country has large enough crops today to stop importing the "base paste" from
- Bolivia and Peru. The new bonanza has had a social and economic impa;;t on
the southern part of the country that ia even greater than the impact of the
jump in coffee prices in 1974. CROMOS reporters visited the growing ~rea, felt
and chewed the co~a leaves.. This issue contains an exclusive report that
covers all the way from trafficking on the streets of New York to how the
cocaine travels along the roada in the Cauca Valley.
At nightfall on 16 December 1980, Dionisia Alvarez, an elderly Cauca Indian
woman whom time had forgotten came down from the odd sugar-loaf moun~ain on
which she lived to exchange some coca leaves for food in the nearby village.
It wa.s the first time that she had done this, and she would never again uae
_ maeey. The same night, more than 1,000 kilometers away, in a Bogota tavern,
a solitary, wealthy advertising man stood at the bar. He soon atruck up a
conversation with three penniless students who were out for a night's
adventure. Ten minutes later, they locked themselves in the small restroom
amid baer cartons and rolls of tisaue paper. The upper part of the
advertising man's moustache gradually turned white with what was left of his
last gram of cocaine, which the four of t~iem were going to ahare ttiat night.
Placing it on a fingernail, on a tiny silver apoon, on the blade of a pipe-
~ cleaner and on a razor blade, they snorted the powder, sounding ae if they
had colds and were not carrying handkerchiefs.
Lying Against the Wheel
The advertising man put away the small contact lena case with the powder in
the insi.de pocket of his jacket. His eyea glistening and his nose moist,
he paid the bill and got in his oz~ange BMW with hia new-found fx�iends. He
immediately began driving like a madman, heading south, always bearing left
and always avoiding a collision at the last moment. He felt that hia reflexea
and dri.ving ability c�:ere as sharp as they could be. The man w~e enjoying
(or suffering?) the same effects that thousands of people get every day
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all over the world from a gram of cocaine: a sudden conatiction of the blood
vessels that shoots blood throughout the organiam and makea it feel like a
racing engine.
Fifteen minutes later, outside the houee where his office was located, the
advertising man was lying against the steering wheel, swesting and unable
to move a single finger. One of the students began carefully aearching thr.ough
his inside pocket.
That same day, at an office in the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Mr T. Frank
Crigler was drafting a reply to the preaident of the Colombian Senate in
connection with a series of concerned comments about the promotion of the
drug traffic from the United Statea.
Crigler's letter said that Colombian domeatic coneumption had riaen sharply.
A short time later, in a Washington office a atrategic document was being
drawn up on actions to be taken againat drug Crafficking from 1981 to 1985.
The primary objective set forth in this terse paper was the "destruction of
the illegal plants in the countryside" and every effort to apprehend the
traffickers.
Exactly 6 months later, on 27 July, a Monday, coca plants in a Cauca village
2 hours from Popayan were destroyed in a routine operation. The participants:
- 40 Colombian policemen and hundreds of I~ndians. Each machete-cut plant would
sprout up again in 6 months. Nevertheless, the small detachment, which was
supposed to return that night to Popayan, almost got stranded in ttte mountains;
the Indians tried to close off the road and attack them.
Juan Valdes Vs Mr Coca
These are the main incidents in the sordid war that is being waged in the
swamps of the Caqueta, in the Cauca mountains, on highways, in five-star
hotels, in planes, in airports and on the streeta of the United States: the
cocaine war. It has been going on for 2 years, ever si.nce Colombia stopped
growing marihuana en masse and became the world's leading producer of refined
cocaine, supplying 70 percent of the international market with coca leaf
crops that are large enough so that it no longer has to import "base paste"
from Bolivia and Peru.
Why is the Drug Enforcement Administration aiming its guns outside the
United States, going after production, not consumption? Becauae it is almost
impossible to control cocaine trafficking inside the United States. The
legal penalties for possession of cocaine are very light; sales are not being
cracked down on, and a legal battle is being waged to make cocaine legal.
C,~caine was made illegal in the United States in 1906, when it was classified
as a narcotic. It came out of the recipe for Coca-Cola (to be replaced by
caffeine), from neighborhood drugstores, from Freud's experimenta and from
the coca teas that ladies used to drink. Neverthelese, it was claeaified as
a narcotic by mistake; cocaine doea nat produce a physical addiction (a
psychological one, yes) and does not have narcotic effecta; quite to the
contrary, it is a stimulant.
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If the lawyers who advocate legalization of marihuana and cocaine on the basis
of these arguments are ever successful, the governmente of the countries
cracking down on their sale will be in aerious trouble, but not Peru and
Bolivia, where coca can be grown legally.
Now, the White Bonanza
At this very moment, large plantations in the eastern plains, in the Caqueta
jungles, in the impenetrable Huila mountains and in the Cauca jungles by the
sea are giving rise to an unprecedented economic and social phenomen~n in
the country. The weak economy there is receiving a flood of dollars from
the coca boom, and the effects are as striking as when coffee prices soared
in 1974.
Pendulum clocks, famous singers and medicine salesman have begun ~o take to
the winding paths leading to the coca towna; peasant farmers who have never
had electricity are buying refrigerators in which to store their old clothes;
the mud tiles are gradually being replaced with ruatproof Eternit; beside
old adobe huts, at the foot of roads, large garagea are being built for the
same picturesque buses that have altars to the Virgin of the Carmen painted
on them, but this time with the latest-model chassis and engine. Arriving
each Sunday in the towns are trucks loaded with motorcycles, which are
immediately bought up with cash in the same market where oranges used to be
sold.
Dagoberto, the Shoeless Millionaire
Up in the mountains, beyond the famous town of Bolivar, Cauca, lives Dagoberto,
an elderly Indian whose family suddenly became rich when he discovered the
difference between selling a banana leaf and a coca leaf. Dagoberto, his
sons, his grandchildren, his parents and his wives had chewed coca all their
- lives. They grew a few plants out of tradition and for their own small
_ supply. Mixed with a special lime called "mambe," the coca leaf bringa
lasting well-being and energy. Dagoberto Corrales was furnished the means
_ to convert his banana and coffee fields into a large coca plantation, the
largest yet discovered. He had more than 100,000 plants. On the morning
that Dagoberto Corrales saw the green-uniformed police arrive, he threw
himself to the ground in front of his house and began foaming at the mouth.
When he had calmed down, he was able to speak with the lieutenant who commanded
the small detachment. Hia children, meanwhile, poaitioned themaelves around
around the crop, armed with old carbines and rusty machetes, chewing away with
_ their green-stained mouths. Dagoberto argued with the policeman for a half
hour. Finally, he tried to buy him off. He offered him 100,000 pesos in cash.
Before the lieutenant had time to th=nk it over, the 100,000 pesos were
there, wrapped in newspaper, at the feet of the old :nan, who was waiting for
- an answer, shoeless and pleading. Some minutes later, when Dagoberto saw the
cloud of smoke rising from his coca field. he threw himself at the lieutenant
and asked him to kill him.
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� Moved, the officer returned a few days later with coffee seeds for the old
man. Dagoberto spoke with him and even had a photograph taken with the new
Kodak that one of his children had brought from Popayan. He agreed to plant
the coffee, but he explained to the lieutenant that the coca plants would
be growing among the coffee bushes and that he would have to come ~ack all
the time to destroy them because they would sprout again.
With a Gun at Their Necks
Dagoberto Corrales, like many other peasant farmers in the coca zone, ~
completely changed the concept of coca trafficking. No longer did clandestin~
_ lahoratories near capital cities process the imported paste. The farmers
themselves work with the leaves, 100 metera from the cr.ops, producing the ~
initial paste in rudimentary laboratories called "kitchens." The leaves are
dried, ground up and heated there. The resulting product, coca paste, is
processed once again in the same area, either in a houae in a nearby town or
in a makeshift laboratory in the mountains. This yielda cocaine base, a
substance that is occasionally employed directly by mixing it in marihuana
cigarettes to make the famous "bazooka," which can take addicta on unexpected
trips.
The cocaine base can be transported to traditional laboratories but is
generally processed again in the same place near the crop. Very well-paid
laboratory workers, who never see their bosses' faces and who work with a
machine gun at their necks, convert the cocaine base into cocaine hydro-
chloride in labs that are dismantled after they have served their purpose.
The traffic is out of the hands of the Indians after the first step, in
- other words, as soon as they have produced the coca paste. A ton of coca
_ leaves brings the grower-about 120,000 pesos. The trafficker gets about 2
kilograms of pure cocaine from the same ton, which in Bogota is worth about
~ $40,000, a bit more than 2 million peaos. When these 2 kilograms of cocaine
are cut with novocaine or simply blended with talcum in a Miami hotel and then
sold by the gram on the streets of New York, Miami or Loa Angelea, they are
worth a million dollars. Such cocaine is only 12 percent pure and has been
multiplied almost 10-fold.
Pure cocaine, the hydrochloride in the form of pulverized crystal, leaves
the Cauca mountains along several routes: on foot, by rail, in the arms of
Indians, who earn undreamed-of suma of money for a hike, concealed in a
false battery, on board a regularly scheduled bus, in the double exhauat of a
taxi or in the personal helicopter of a trafficker.
Ninety Percent Purity, Ninety Percent Profita
Unce in I3ogota, the pure cocaine can be sold to a foreign trafficker, who
takes it with him, or transported by Colombians to the shores of the United
States. This traffic is completely different from marihuana. No longer will
we see the attractive and dangerous scene of a caravan of trucks moving
through the Guajiro wilderness in the middle of the night. If an operation
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begins in the Cauca with 3 tons of coca leaves, approximately 6 kilograms of
cocaine come ouL- of it. One kilo is mailed out in a three-level box whose
center divider has been removed and replaced with the precious powder. The
box is full of handicrafts or ponchos and is addressed to an air mail post
office box. Another kilo travels in the stomach of a"mule." Another travels
in a double-bottomed suitcase, and the rest can be sent out in the form of
little Indian statues covered by a thin layer of white cement, in the arms of
a tourist. ~
If the "mule" dies of indigestion, if the box breaks or if the customshouse
dogs sniff out the suitcase but the handicrafts get through, the operation is
more than handsomely profitable. Traffickers no longer run the risk of
flying old DC-3's, loaded with marihuana, close to the ground, and they can
quit after one operation.
Many of them come to Colombia for a few days, hoping to return with lots of
money, but they wind up in jail.. Nevertheleas, the proportion of cocaine
and traffickersseized is minimal: lesa than 1 percent of the total traffic.
In spite of this, the vaults at the Bank of the Republic muat hold at least
- 300 kilograms of pure cocaine, a sea of white powder worth a fortune. The
more traffic is curtailed and the more coca growing is combated, the more
profits traffickers will make, because these problems boost the price. The
demand for cocaine is always greater than the supply, and the supply is
shrinking all the time.
Little by little, Colombia is being confronted with another problem: the shift
of consumption to the streets of its cities. Increasing numbers of foreigners
come to Colombia to buy a gram of pure cocaine for the fabulous price of
1,500 pesos, the same amount that the advertiaing man on 97th Street paid.
Some travel in throngs to popayan with threadbare knapsacks, looking for the
700-peso gram, $12, dirt cheap.
There are no data on the number of consumers in Colombia, but the impression
is that the figure is constantly rising, especially among the middle class.
Cocaine leaves no marks, has no odor, does not atain fingers or redden the
eyes. It does not have countercultural implicationa like marihuana and.is
therefore used by a painter and an accountant alike. It does not cause a
physical addiction or leave injection marks on the arms. It only destroys
the interior of the nose, slowly, so that a long-time cocaine uaer cannot
bear to have his nose touched and snivels conatantly. A subculture, almost
a religion, has formed around cocaine. Consumers get together to snort it as
if it were a rite. There are specialized stores ("snow shops") that sell
tiny inhalers, gold blades to separate the portions and chemical reagents to
check the purity. The classical way of snorting cocaine, however, is with a
rolled-up $100 bill, with the portiona placed on a mirror. The cocaine
culture has even gotten into the movies. In one of his love stories Woody
Allen clumsily sneezes on his frienda' cocaine, sending thousands of dollars
up in a powdery cloud.
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of what is going on throughout the world because of small coca leaf fields
like hers. While she eats her cocaine-lime mixture, one of her aons goes into
town to exchange coca leaves for the evening's meal; another son stands guard
at the coca field at nightfall with an old carbine, and her youngest daughter,
unshod and with a thick watch on her left wriat, geta ready for the long
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. JAMAICA
HEALTH MINISTER DISCUSSES ISLAND'S DRUG PROBLEM
Kingston THE DAILY GLEANER in English 7 Sep 81 p 1
[ Excerp t] The q~nja induun ~tcracu people s~id: the Covernment's policy of devel�
~rho dal ~n h~rd drugs ~nd we have to oping, the .resourca oE ~he rur~l ~reas
I,e ~ery,vigi~~nt to ensure thal as we especrally was "~eiy welcome ~s it
seek yrh~n~:auon the drug problems of should help to retain the young people
che I~iR me~ropoli~~n cicies do noc infil� in these aras. .
cnce us. He~l[h M iniscer D~. ~ Kenneth T h e g r o w t h o f ~ pp r o p r i~ t e
B~u~h said on S~turd~y nighc. ~ industria would genence developmenc.
D~. B3ugh w~s ~ddressing the Mon� ~~~d~AR to urb~n~zauon oi the rur~i
~ areas. But. D~. Baugh said, it wo:.
teRo Ba~ Higlr School P~sc Students . ~m~rto~c tv re~lize thac the ~dvances
~lssoci~cion ~nnuzl dmner ~c the Mee . of ehe 1~~R cicies o[ che USA and ocher
~tre Rescaur~ni. Sc. Aadrew. on ~he ~ouncries rrhicb Me ~dmired werc otten
urRenc problems fued by rural areu. ~~companied- by ,gr~ve prohlems. Pollu�
[o whicfr tht society needed to address ~~an ~nd drua t~n6s were o(cen ~ con�
� itxlf. ' comit~nc ot urbani:ation. Are we Q~y�
One of che m~in prohlems. he s~id. inq enough ~atcention co the possihiluy
was the rot~l�urb~o driit. ~Imosc c~n� chat Me could develop in ih~s rny ~s
camount to ~ hnin dr~in. which we117" he ~~~ed. . .
scemmed [rom the (ut thu the "middle ~ Cuin~ the problem o( dnrg rih~s ie
income socio�aonomic structure". oE the the C'SA. he said che r+idespread us~.oi
~ma11 towns w~s too limited co accom� ~ R~~~~ in j~m~ia m~de us vulne~~ble.
mod~~e che ~oung high xhool teaver. ~s th~s tucor would. tend to ittracc
The countr~ h~d not paid su(ficient ~eoplc wbo de~lc in hard drugs"~nd wt
attention co che de~elopment ot h~ve~to he ven.vigil~nt ch~t these prob� ~
- indu~ries in c hese towns. he s ai d. H e le m s.,. d o n o c mfilaue us.., ,
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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
BRIEFS
DRUG ABUSE CENTERS--The Trinidad and Tobago Government has made no provisions to
set up drug abuse centres even in the light of many young Trinidadians having
become drug addicts. This comment was made by Dr Hugh Spicer former chairman
of the Blood Bank, at a public meeting of the Organisation for National Recon-
struction (ONR) at Hermitage Village, near San Fernando, on Thursday night.
Dr Spicer said that the drug abuse problem in Trinidad and Tobago has reached
a stage where people have moved from the use of mari~uana to the "hard" drug
cocaine and would soon be going to heroin. "Children are smoking marijuana"
said Dr Spicer. He said that all progressive countries were aware of the increas-
ing seriousness of the drug problem and had made provisions for combating it by
methods such as drug abuse centres. Dr Spicer charged that Trinidad and Tobago
was the only country without such provisions. An ONR government would set up
drug abuse centres for helping drug users and addicts, he said. [Excerpt]
[Port-of-Spain SUNDAY GUARDIAN in English 6 Sep 81 p 12]
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VENEZUELA
DRUG TRAFFIC ALLEGED TO FIGURE IN CARIBBEAN POLITICS
Caracas ZETA in Spanish 30 Aug 81 p not given
[Article by Fancisco Chao Hermida: "Urugs in Carib~ean Politics"]
[Text] The reaction.of authorities in all countries to prevent the drug traffic
has been almost identical. When control mechanisms have been reestablished in ports
of entry, the traffickers have had to approach governments to get permission to
use diplomatic pouches. The most notable and most widely publicized case is that
- of the North Korean emissaries, who have been caught repeatedly in this crime in
several countries.
This has attracted the attention of the totalitarian powers, who are very interested
in the social and moral decay of the democratic nations. We shall illustrate this
story with a case which is taking place at present in Caracas. A Colombian national,
Jesus (Chucho) Antonio Amaya Esp inel was wandering through the streets of our capital
city looking for shelter. For a long time he had been the right hand man of Juan
(Johny) Lozano Crump Perez, leader of a gang of traffickers based in Miami which
was broken up by police when Crump was arrested. The gang leader was booked and
set free on bail. To get the money, Crump wrote to Amaya, who was living in Bogota
with a girlfriend named Piedad. Amaya, who enjoyed a certain respectability because
of his position as president of the Colombian-Cuban Friendship House, had a public
relations firm which allowed him to make contacts in high places and to justify
his lavish personal expenses. When Amaya received Crump's request, he found him-
self in a fix. He had spent his boss's money and was in debt to other traffickers,
such as Carlos Uribe and Jaime Leiva, his companions in revelry at Las Piramides
bar in Bogota; and Jaime Caceres, Cesar (Cachitas) Corte and Cesar Echevarria, these
last three from the interior of the country.
Seeking to increase his income so that he might comply with Crump's request, Amaya
decided to call on Fernando Ravelo, the Cuban ambassador in Bogota, with whom he
met one day in February of this year in Las Piramides. A thir~i party, Rene Rodriguez,
president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with Peoples was present at the
luncheon. They also had a meeting there later on, attended by Alberto Cabrera,
a Cuban diplomat assigned to Bogota, and a man known in Cartagena by the nickname
"E1 Pardino" [The GodfatherJ.
The plan of action was to maintain the flow of a vast traffic of marihuana harvested
in Colombia and distributed in several countries of the Caribbeatz basin andi.n southern
United States. The Cuban diplomats had received information abou~ an imminent rupture
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of relations between Fidel Castro and Colombia, and they wanted to guarantee the
supply of drugs after that time.
The direct participation of the Cuban Government in the drug business had been
arranged at the Hotel Orion in Mariel between officials of the regime and members
of the so-called "Cuban Mafia" in Florida, who had come to that port in Pinar del
Rio Province during the mass exodus in 1980. Castro authorities gave the "green
light" to the traffickers based in Florida to transfer drugs across Cuban territory
in exchange for the carrying out in the United States by the traffickers of certain
tasks, the character of which it has not been possible to establish. Amaya, who
knew all this, saw the doors open to reconstruct his finances, pay his debts and
send Crump's money to him.
As part of the plan they decided to go to Barranquilla to establish contact with
- a known Mafioso named Jaime Guillot Lara. He, in turn, later went to Bogota to
meet, at his hotel, with Chucho Amaya, Ambassador Ravelo and Alberto Cabrera. Since
at that time it was already foreseen that the Cuban diplomats whould have to leave
Colombia, they decided to leave an active agent in that country, and that ~ob fell
to Gonzalo Bassols Suarez, a reputed expert in the organization of guerrillas and
subversive groups. Bassols is one of the contacts of M-19 [19 April Movement].
But the Cuban officials looked at the drug traffic as part of their duties as officials
of their government and not as a means of enriching the traffickers associated with
them, and so Chucho Amaya never managed to amass enough money to pay his debts and
to send Crump, his former boss, his bail money. Fearful of being~murdered, he decamped
to Caracas, as we said at the beginning, in search of a safe refuge and hop ing to
rebuild in our country another network of drug traffickers.
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
- DRUG CRIMES INCREASE, LAWS SAID TO BE INSUFFICIENT
Dubai AL-BAYAN in Arabic 11 Aug 8I. p 5
[Article by Ahmad~Muhsin: "Pub lic Prosecutors and 3udges in a Confrontation With
Drug Crimes; Crimes on the Rise, Anti-Drug Laws Are Inadequate and in Need of Re-
vision"I
[Text] One of the most serious challenges to the cohesiveness of modern society is
the problem of the spread of all varieties of drugs among youths and ~uveniles, in-
cluding women.
Because of the spread of this epidemic, society is gradually beginning to be eroded
starting with the main point of support and ending with the other underpinnings of
society. This situation has led psychologiats to describe drugs as more dangerous
to human societies than war.
Unfortunately, we in the UAE are naw facing this same problem. Statistics indicate
that the rate of drug crimes is mounting significantly. Hardly a week goea by with-
out the uncovering of another attempt to bring in drugs through the ports and air-
ports for the purpose of selling them to young people, both citizens and immigrants
alike. And not many days go by without the detection of a ring involved in the
use or sale of drugs within the country. ~
The unfortunate fact is that the efforta that have been exerted in this area have
been limited to the effective drug-fighting efforts of Department of Investigation
~ agents and the police. We have not aided these efforts by formulating the appropri-
ate solutions necessary to eliminate theae poisons and prevent them from ultimately
entering the country, despite the fact that we have a definite knowledge of the
sources of these drugs, who is selling them, and who is bringing them in.
This unfortunate fact prompts us to ask, Are the sentences issued by the criminal
courts sufficient to deter drug crimiz~als?
AL-BAYAN touched on all these problems in an interview with criminal court 3ustices
- and public prosecutors in Abu Dhabi.
The Drug Crime
Muhammad Sharabi, member of the public prosecutor's office, said: "The drug of-
fender can either be a dealer or a drug user. A dealer, of course, is an individual
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"who buys and sells goods. Tiie dealer in drugs does the same thing but his goods--
narcotics--are illegal and he sells them to obtain exorbitant profits. The drug
user is an individual who takes drugs. If fie takes enough drugs, the drug user may
reach the point of addiction, after which it is very difficult f.or him to relinquish
drug use except through physfcal and spiritual treatment. If this is impossible,
then the alternative is suppression and punishment."
_ Regarding the varieties of illegal drugs, Muhammad Sharabi said: "There is an ob-
jective standard incorporated in the definition of a narcotic. A narcotic is any
substance which causes an individual to lose consciousness or disturbs his personal
equilib rium. These apply both fram a psychological srandpoint, in which an un-
natural state of pleasure or depression is induced in the individual, or fram a
physical standpoint, in which the individual becomes immobile or is unable to move
about in a normal manner. On this basis, certain substances are classified as
criminal narcotics in all the Arab states, including the UAE. These substances are
hashish, opium, qat, morphine, and a~l soporific and tranquilizing medications in
an unacceptad form. All of these cause loss of consciousness and disturbe the
eouilib rium.
Preventive Measure
But why were these types of narcotics declared illegal?
Chief Prosecutor Salim Kabishi answered this question: "It has been proved medi-
cally based on information collected by medical men throughout the world that
narcotics lead to loss of inemory and the destruction of willpower. This causes the
drug user to commit sins and crimes. It has also been proved that addiction harms
the addict in that it causes weakening of the arteries which leads in turn to
clotting in the coronary artery or to heart failure. This is the understanding I
have derived from studying medical books about the harmful effects of narcotics.
z'or these reasons, the illegalization of narcotic substances was undertaken as a
preventive measure to prevent the commission of cri.mes and protect the individual,
who is the nucleus of society, from his own wickedness."
With regard to the methods required to treat the addict~ Salim Kabishi added:
"Breaking addiction demands that the psychological state of the addict be studied.
This is because withdrawal from addiction is only poaeible if the addict turns to
what he himself really desires and likea. He can do this only by pursuing one of
his legitimate interests in a sanatorium. Here a suitable environment is pre-
pared for this interest to grow again until the addict can devote his energy to it
completely free of addiction. This can only happen gradually, because addtction is
a mental illness and the addict can free himself from it oniy through counseling
and by paying attention to the evil consequences."
Salim Kabishi continued; "More importantly, one should realize that the addict is
not a believer in the true sense. Therefore, he can be treated spiritually by being
restored to Islam through an appeal to its teachinga in a form he personally can
feel comfortable with. His heart yearns for direct contact with his religion, and
~ahen he achieves this contact he turns to God and applies His teachings. His
spirit is then up7.ifted and he purifies himself and becomes a new person."
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Most Common Crime
Concerni.ng the most common drug-related crime in th~ UAE with respect to the type
of drug involved, Chief Prosecutor 'Abd-al-Wahhab 'Abdul said: "Without a doubt,
hashish is the drug involved in the largest part of these crimes, followed in order
by qat, sleeping pills, and opium."
He added: "As you well know, it is quite clear that the suspected dealer who brings
the drugs into the country is, in the vast maj ority of the cases, a native of a cer-
tain Islamic country in East Asia. It has been noted that about 90 percent of the
dealers who were arrested during 1980 and the first half of 1981 were, unfortunate-
ly, natives of the country alluded to."
Arabs Take Drugs
Assistant public prosecutor Yusuf al-Huani broke into the conversation with this
comment: "Unfortunately, the individuals who are using the drugs are mostly na-
tives of Arab states. This situation indicates that these individuals are unfor-
tunately under the control of the na.rcotics importer. Actually, the activity of
investigations departnent personnel and the police has been effective in preventing
the distribution and use of drugs within the country. Thts has been indicated by
the arrest of a number of dealers carrying several kilograms of narcotic sub-
stances. In many cases, more than 10 kilograms has been found in the possession
. of the importer.'~
He added: "A number of investigations have also shawn that there is a handful of
foreign immigrants in the country who take advantage of an immigrant individual's
state of need by inducing him to become a tool in the importation of drugs. They
send him abroad at their expense and specify the places and localities where drugs
can be obtained and the cost of the drugs. He then brings the drugs back and turns
them over in return for a large sum of money. In this way the individual in need
slips into a cri.me with which he ends his life tirtth a sentence that calls for his
deportation."
Deportation
But what is the punishment for drug dealers and drug addicts?
Muhammad Sharabi, member of the public prosecutor's office, replied to this ques-
tion: "We men of the law say frankly that the penalty stipulated in the dangerous
drug law applies equally to the person who brings the drugs in, the importer, the
person caught in possession of drugs, and the drug user, and this is not easy to
accept rationally or logically. This places the individual who imports drugs to
satisfy che needs of deviants and addicts on an equal footing with the drug user in
terms of the penalty imposed.
"Moreover, there is another criticism that should be pointed out, namely, that the
maximum penalty as stipula~ed in this law should he raised. It should not be pos-
sible to say that the penalty here in Abu Dhabi ie five years for the drug dealer
and the drug importer while in all the other Arab atatea the penalty extends all
the way to execution and life at hard labor."
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Integrity of Soci.ety
Naturally, the criminal court justices, as the individuals who interpret the laws
and issue sentences, also have their opinion about drug crimes and the danger they
represent.
Justice Fathi Lashin, chief of the Second Criminal Department, said; "Drug crimes
are among the most dangerous crimes and have a harmful and serious effect on the
integrity of society. First of all, they work to undermine the cohesiveness of the
family and cause the family to disintegrate. This is because one of the particular
. characteristics of hashish smoking, for example, is that it usually takes place in
a group and the group takes up a large amount of time. This leads to addiction fo1-
lowed by complete immersion in this atmosphere.
"It is a medically proven fact that narcotics also have harmful effects on an in-
dividual's general hea3.~h. Moreover, there is a widespread belief contrary to the
facts that drugs have sexual effects and this induces many people to take them.
Thus they spread extensively in society."
Justice Lashin added: "The use of opium is more dangerous to the general health
than hashish b ecause its effects on health are more severe and more serious. There-
fore, the fight against this crime must be intensified through deterrent punish-
ments. More importantly, we must close the channels through which this harmful
_ substance is smuggled into the country �from abroad, because naturally it is not
grown within the country."
Justice Fathi Lashin supported the public prosecutors~ statements to the effect that
the dangerous drugs and substances law does not differentiate between possession for
personal consumption and possession with the intent to sell or import a drug from
, abroad. However, he said that the judge, who holds the scales of 3ustice, takes the
welfare of society into account in his sentencea. This means that he varies the
_ punishment fram moderate to severe according to the size of the offense with re-
spect to the quantity seized.
The judge also varies the punishment based on the suspect's intent in possessing a
drug. It is evident that possession with the intent to sell the drugs is the most
dangerous to society because it is a means of spreading these harmful substances
among people and glamorizing them to weak individuals. Likewise, bringing drugs
into the country is of a higher order of seriousness because closing the door to
i.mportation from. abroad is the key to the elimination of this dangeroua phenomenon.
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_ AUSTRIA
DRUG CONSUI~TION INCREASING, DEATHS,DECREASING
Vienna DIE PRESSE in German 26 Aug 81 p 12
[Article by st.: "More Drug Addicts, But Fewer Deaths"]
[Text] Vienna--Competent drug hunters describe as premature assertions by some of
, their colleagues, according to which the Austrian drug market is suffering from
"supply difficulties" due to stringent prosecution. Consumption of hard drugs such
as heroin is still increasing; there is fear that a new mod wave may reach in from
Germany--cocaine consumption there is increasing by leaps and bounds. The officials,
however, saw an encouraging sign in the decrease of drug-related deaths. By the end
of the month the number of dead should be about one half of that of last year.
"Unfortuantely there is no trend toward the softer drugs such as hashish and marijuana,"
states Dr. Wolfgang Neugebauer of the Vienna Security Office. The police, to be sure,
are prosecuting more drug-related felonies than before, but there is still more than
enough drug in Vienna. Already 30 kilograms of heroin have been confiscated this
year, this presupposes the existence of a large "black amount." In Germany it is
estimated that only about one tenth of the drugs on the market can be confiscated.
The pop drug cocaine is imported by way of Frankfurt and Zurich. A new social class
functions as the user, namely persons who have more money than heroin addicts, for
example. To have an effect cocaine must be taken more frequently than heroin, but
has about the same price tag.
Magister Werner Keuth of the Interpol Drug control office in Vienna is of the opinion
that stepped-up prosecution will have a long-term effect on the drug trade. But for
the time being he sees no indications of a decline in drug abuse. Only the number
of deaths has declined this year. Last year 33 persons died in Vienna of an overdose,
this year their number was only 7, compared tQ 18 drug-related deaths at this time
last year. Dr. Wolfgang Neugebauer thinks that an exact analysis of the causes is
too difficult, but he assumes that at this time the heroin traded is not so pure,
and that the addicts have become more cautious.
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AUSTRIA
BRIEFS
HASHISH PLANTATION IN KLAGENFURT=-Various hemp plantations have been discovered
in Klagenfurt, from which ab~ut 100 cannabis plants had already been harvested.
The Klagenfurt Drug Bureau officers found out that Richard and Ulrich Hauer and
Robert Petersmann had harvested the hemp plants. Petersmann was detained, and the
two brothers are still at large. [AU201540 Vienna WIENER ZEITUNG in German
17 Sep 81 p 5]
~ CSO: 5300/2010
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DENMARK
PHYSICIAN EXPERT DISCUSSES WIDENING DRUGS PROBLEM
~ Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 16 Sep 81 pt II p 4 .
[Interview with Peter Ege by FZemming Pedereon, date and plane not given]
- [Text] Narcotics, once the whim of the upper class has become the
vice of the lower class, says Dr. 1'eter Ege in an interview on
the present narcotics situation in Denmark prior to the conference
on the role of the counties in connection with the treatment of
- addicts.
There are approximately 10,000 drug addicts in Denmark today, In a few
years, 1,500 to 2,000 of these 10,000 acidicts will have died as a result
of their drug abuse.
This year alone, approximately 200 addicts are expected to be included
in the mortality statistics, which practically each year have shown that
an increasing nurriber of people in this country die in consequence of dru~
abuse. I?uring the last few years~ the increase has actually been very sharp,
and, consequently, it would not be surprising if the figure for 1981 will
exceed 200 deaths.
The above somber picture of today's narcotic: situation in Denmark was given
by Dr. Peter Ege, a research secretary and a member of the secretariat
for the government's liaison committee on alcohol and drug issues.
"And out of these 10,000 addicts, approximately 5,000 live in the metropolitan
area alone, while the rest are distributed fairly evenly according to the
sizes of the other cities, the second largest number of add,icts living at.
Arhus, b~zt, on the basis of the size of the c~~ty, Elsinore, incidentally,
has a very large number ~f addicts. And practically a.ll cities above a ~
certai~ size, approximately 2,000 inhabitants, have their groups of addicts."
"Ap~roximately 50 million kroner are spent on tr~atment," says Peter Ege,
"but this figure is in glaring contrast to the amount of money.whiEh-drug
addicts otherwise cost all of us. The costs of inedical bills, hospital
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treatment, social services~ police and courts may only be estimatec~. The
same thing applies to the costs of insurance companies, businesses., and
private persons, where, to the extent that this has been possible, the
basis has been the abusers' own statements regarding the financing of
their drug addiction. However, it may be established that each addict
taking drugs by injection costs the sociEty an average of between
100,000 and 200,000 kroner annually. On a national basis, it is thus a
question of an amount that is probably between 1.5 and 2 billion kroner.
Flemming Pedersen: Which youth groups are particularly hit?
Peter Ege: They are young people who have got social pr~blems, little
schooling, and no further education--young penple who have had problems
during their adolescence.
- Flemming Pedersen: Previously, also young people from the upper middle
class were involved with drugs.
Unemployment as Cause
Peter Ege: That is true, but drug addition has penetrated increasingly
deeper down through the social strata of the society. The whims of the
upper class have become the vices of the lower class.
_ Flemming Pedersen: To what extent does unemployment among youn~ people
influence the narcotics situation in this country?
Peter Ege: It plays a large role in the work of treatment which is
rendered difficult because it is not possible to channel the young people into
meaningful jobs. And it probably is also a contributory cause why an
increasing number become dru~ abusers.
Flemming Pedersen: You have mentioned that approximately 1,500 to 2,000 of
the present addicis will die within a few years. What about the rest?
Peter Ege: A lar~e part of them--somewhere between 30 and 50 percent--will
recover and resume normal lives, and others will continue their miserable
lives and will become alcohol and pill abusers and will end up in correctional
facilities or at the Kofoed School.
Flemming Pedersen: Is there no chance of improvement or a solution to the
problem?
Peter Ege: Not in the present situation. We may only fear that we shall have
an increasing number of abusers if the unemployment rate among young people
- keeps increasing.
If we do not increase our efforts and do not coordinate the treatment work
in a somewhat better manner, the development will probably continue in the
same adverse manner, and the mortality rate among drug addicts will increase.
We shall then never get rid of the heavy drug addiction which we have today.
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Next F~iday~ I?r. Peter Ege will epeak at a conference~ the e~xb~ect of which
will be "the role of the Society of County Councillorg in the #~ture treat-
- ment of drug addicts." But asked the question: "What should be done~in .the
first instance, to combat the increasing drug addiction in this country,"
he answers:
"We must, first and foremost, have more and better possibilities of treating
older addicts, thus those who have been addicts for some years. I?rug addicts
who are from 24 to 30 years old. Better cooperation is also needed between
general practitioners and treatment centers.
~ We must have more treatment openings and more individualized treatment
possibilities, enabling us,to a higher degree,to meet the drug abusers' c~~rn
wishes regarding treatment," Peter Ege concluded.
, ~ ~ 200
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125
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55 52
37 37
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1968 69 70 ?1 72 ?3 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 $1 1
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Narcotics Mortality Rate ~entire country)
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DENMARK
CONFEREIVCE EXAMINES SITUATION OF OLDER ADDICTS
~ Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 19 Sep 81 p 5
[Artic~e by Hanne Seln~s7
[Text~ The ~roup of drug addicts between the ages of 25 and 31 is s+eadily
growing, but nobody knows where the responsibili.ty rests for treatment of
this group. Irr�espective of age, this, however, is a task resting with the
counties. And at trie conference held yest~rday of the Society of County
Councillors on the future treatment of drug addicts, the responsibility for
treatment of older addicts was one ~f the subjects that was being discussed
and debated, without any clarification bein$ reacheii.
- The typical drug addict is 26-27 years old, has been reared by unskilled
parents, has 7-9 years of schooling, is himself unskilled and unemployed,
lives in his own apartment on public subsidy, has been addicted to morphine
for 6-7 years, feels isolated in the society, has a few times tried slow
withdrawal treatment under the supervision of his own physician but is
- ~ without any current treatment. '~'his is how Bent Normann Olsen from the
Storstrmm county describes the average addict.
Dr. Peter Ege of the liaison committee on alcohol and narcotics problems said
that older addicts represent the group with the highest mortality rate.
They are in charge of the major part of all traffic and circulation of drugs,
commit most crimes, and their influence in the environment of addicts
obstructs the younger and less addicted abusers from seeking treatment.
That is why it is important to treat them. Their attitude to the offers
of assistance from county youth centers is negati.ve, and they are mostty
interested in methadune treatn~ent. Nevertheless, Elsa Schmidt, psychologist,
Roskilde County, said that it is possible to treat older addicts individually
- within the system existing today, but that it requires more resources.
The correctiorial facilities also have problems treating older. addicts. When
released, they are seldom channeled elsewhere and, therefore, quickly end
up in prisons again. The correctional facilities have decided to set up
special sections for addicts in tYie maximum security correctional facilities
to increase the efforts of treatment.
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DENMARK
- POLICE CLAIM SOUTH AMERICA IS NEW COCAINE SOURCE
Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 15 Sep 81 p 16
[Article by Anders Wiig]
[Text~ The route of cocaine from illegal South American laboratories to the
Italian mafia goes via Copenhagen. The Danish police have taken part in the
conviction of Italian mafia chiefs who are imprisoned in their home country.
The other side of the Danish cocaine problem is the more national one. Not
all quantities are forwarded to southern parts of Europe. Part of the
cocaine remains in this country for the Danish market which the gangsters are
in the process of developing. And which the expanded narcotics police will
- now proceed to unravel.
d Lima-Kastrup
A typical cocaine case unravelled this year by the narcotics police and
customs a~thorities of Denmark and other countries is '~the case of the suit-
case." One day last winter, the authorities called from the London airport
of Heathrow to Copenhagen to tell the Danish authorities about a suitcase
which, by mistake, had been sent to London from Zima, the capital of Peru.
The suitcase belonged to an Italian citizen who, via other E`uropean airports,
had arrived at Kastrup. On the way, the thing happened which many airp3.ane
passengers have experienced both before and afterwards: the luggage was sent
by a wrong plane. In this case, not to Kastrup but to Heathrow. The
passenger from Lima did, of course, report the loss of his suitcase to SAS
at Kastrup, and the suitcase soon emerged in London--traced via the inter-
national EDP search system of the airline companies.
However, at Aeathrow the customs officers were so officious as to open the
suitcase. And in the suitcase were 3 kilograms of cocaine, the white South
American intoxicating poison which has started flooding European narcotics
markets. Through SAS, the police found the passenger at a Copenhagen hotel.
Before being told that the suitcase had been found, he was made to describe
its legal contents. Then he would not have a chance of denying his acquaint-
ance with the suitcase when told that the cocaine had been found.
Without reservations, he did, indeed, admit having attempted to smuggle
cocaine, and he was sentenced last July to 3 1/2 years of imprisonment.
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On the consumer level, 3 kilograms of cocaine is worth at least a couple of
million kroner, representin$ enormous profits to the principals. In this
case as in many corresponding cases, these people belong to the Italian
mafia.
It was established in the case of the suitcase that the cocaine was to have
been sent on to Southern Europe, the chief of the Copenhagen n~'~olice stated.
Bent Ejlerskov Petersen, assistant commissioner of the criminal p ,
He has just returned from a meeting of Nor.dic narcotics chiefs held in
Reykjavik. Here, Frank Gyldenlmve Madsen, detective superintendent from the
headquarters of Interpol in Paris, stated, "So far in 1981, 194 kilograms of
cocaine have been seized in Europe. In all af 1980, the quantity amounted
to 240 kilograms. In the course of 8 months, this year, they seized in
~ France 80 kilograms, in Italy 27 kilograms, in Spain and Cxreat Britain 13
kilograms and in Denmark 9.6 kilograms, in addition to the 3 kilograms which
emerged at Heathrow.
Bent Ejlerskov says, "It seems like a huge amount for a small country such
as Denmark, and we all believe that Denmark is located on a transit~route
crossing Northern Europe. When, last July, at a few days' interval,~. we
arrested two South American women with 2 and 5 kilograms of cocaine, respective-
ly, we did not believe that the cocaine was intended for the Danish market.
We are still investigating this case in an attempt to find out for which
country the cocaine was intended. In other cases originating in Copenhagen,
I+alian mafia leaders have been imprisoned."
"The cocaine produced in the Andes but comas from various places in South
America to Europe. Mafia-type organizations smuggle it from, for example~
Lima in Peru, Santiago in Chile, La Pas in Bolivia and from Colombia via
couriers in transit across Northern Europe, in which connection Denmark
enters into the picture. And we take it that the Italian mafia--which, of
course, also is composed of several groups--then enters into an exchange�
r''~zre morphine and heroin are exchanged for the cocaine. This has been con-
firmed by the fact that cocaine now also emer~es to a major extent in Arab
cn:intries, for example in Lebanon, which is the place of unloading for heroin,'~
Bent E~lerskov says.
He says that 3-4 years ago, cocaine was not known in Denmark. In 1980, in
one single case, 1 kilo of cocaine was seized, and, so far~ this year,
more than 9 kilos have been seized. Part of the cocaine is meant for the
Danish market, and the police have found small quantities of cocaine among
- Danish drug abusers. That is why the narcotics police is now launching an
- offensive against an apparentl_y commencing cocaine abuse.
Police Warns
Bent Ejlerskov says, We shall now, aft~er the expansion of our force and the
allocation of more technical equipment, to a larger extent make investigations
in environments where cocaine occurs."
Anders Wiig: What kind of environments are they?
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~ Bent Ejlerskov: Actually, they are the envirorunents in which hashish and
heroin occurred to begin with. It was among the upper middle class that
people began experimenting with hashish and heroin, but heroin addicts
have now sunk into the really addicted environments.
Anders Wiig: Does the ordinary, respectable citizen sniff cocaine?
Bent Ejlerskov: No, I do not indicate that. But in certain places which
he frequents, cocaine may occur. These may be a somewhat different type of
pub and restaurant from those that we know from Isted Street and dark
NOrrebro.
Anders Wiig: Discotheques have been mentioned in this connection?
Bent Ejlerskov: Well, that is possible.
Anders Wiig: We have thus now been warned that the police will intervene?
Bent Ejlerskov: That does not matter. As long as you will also warn against
the use of cocaine. This is a very dangerous drug. I carinot warn people
strongly enough against using themselves as guinea pigs, even if it seems to
be a respectable and clean drug to use. They do not, for instance, use dirty
disposable syring~s as in the case of heroin addiction.
- Cocaine is a refined narcotic product fr.om the coca plant, the intoxicating
effects of which have been known since the times of the Incas. When chewing
the leaves, one becomes resistant to hunger, thirst and other burdens. A
refined product made from the plant has been�used medically, especially
for the treatment of nose and ear diseases.
However, dangerous and harmful effects have been ascertained from misuset such
as overtaxing of the heart and wear of the mucous membranes in connection
with sniffing. The drug has now been prohibited throughout the world. One
of the dangers of the intoxicating poison is the creation of a psychological
need for repetition of the stimulating effects of the drug.
Abusers may, says Bent Ejlerskov, come to consider what we regard as a normal
state as something that is abnormal. Abuse may result in mental disorders,
and death occurs as a result of suspended heart action. A particular element
of danger is the fact that one does not get withdrawal symptoms of a physical
nature as is the case after heroin abuse.
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DENMARK
UN OF'FICIAL: EIGHTY PERCENT OF COUNTRY'S DRUGS FROM A,SIA
Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 28 Sep 81 p 5
[Text] Approximately 80 percent of the drugs smuggled into Denmark and
other Nordic countries comes from the Middle East, Pakistan, Iran, and
Southeast Asia, says Bror Rexed, chief of the UN Narcotics Control Fund
in Vienna. Bror Rexed, a former chief of the National Swedish Social
Welfare Board, has been to Denmark for negot~ations with DANIDA [Danish
International Development Authority] concerning Danish contribution to the
work done by the UN fund, with a budget of 9 million kroner, in a number of
developing countries, where the cultivation of opium is practically tYie only
means of survival for a poor peasant population.
_ An amount of 400~000 dollars granted by the Da.nish government for the fund's
preventive work in Afghanistan has not been spent. The Soviet invasion in
the country stopped the project. The UN fund now hopes to have the Danish
contribution to Afghanistan released for a new project in Pakistan, Burma
or Thailand. In Thailand alone, approximately 300,000 inhabitants,
distributed over 1,000 vi.llages in the mountains, subsist on the cultiva-
tion of opium, Bror Rexed added.
The annual Danish contribution to the preventive work amon$ opium cultivating
- peasants in developing countries amounts to 20-25,000 dollars, which are
included in the total budget of 9 million dollars. The Danish money goes to
special projects chosen by DANTDA on the basis of directives given by the
Danish government.
The result so far of the work of the U1~T fund is a reduction in the cultiva-
tion of opium and narcotics by approximately 10 percent in the Far and Middle
East.
"A still better result may be achieved if our grants are trebled," says
Bror Rexed. In Turkey, where approximately 10 years ago the cultivation
of opium was legal in the Afyon province, they have now succeeded in stopping
- nearly all of ~he illegal production by giving the peasant population another
possibility of making a living.
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ITALY
BRIEFS
MILAN POLICE SEIZE HASHISH--Milan, 28 Sep (ANSA)--Qne ton of hashish hemp and oi1
with a wholesale value in the neighborhood of three million dollars has been seized
by police in Milan in a raid on a body and fender shop, a police spokesman reported
here today. Eight people, all Italian nationals, were taken into custody at the
time and ~ailed on charges of criminal association and drug trafficking. The hashish
hemp and oil were packed in plastic containers bearing the labels, in Arabic, of a
"cattle feed center, a cooperative of the Middle East Feed Company S.R.L. of Beirut,
produced in Beirut for the Alois Company for International Trade." [Text] [AU282029
Rome ANSA in English 1923 GMT 28 Sep 81]
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NETHERLANDS
PSYCHIATRIST ON DANGERS OF FREE DISTRIBUTION OF H:ROIN, METHADONE
Rotterdam NRC HANDELSBLAD in Dutch 10 Sep 81 p 7
[Article by Jaap Cola~o Belmonte, psychiatrist in The Hague and Leyden: "How Free Is
User of Heroin and Methadone?"]
[Text] The problem surrounding opium based drugs remains controversial. Free issuance,
forced withdrawal treatments, many find the uncommonly precise government instruc-
tions to physicians concerning methadone controversial. Every asnect seems to be
subject to controversy.
Force
There are many who urge that addicts be detained against their will and forced to
undergo a withdrawal cure without asking their opinion. It is only natural that
people are questioning the admissibility of this policy on humanitarian grounds.
No matter what tlie answer to this question may be, it appearsdifficult to find a
legally acceptable format.
It should be done under the rules of forced admission on the basis of insanity but
it flagrantly violates reality to call the average addict insan~e.
In addition to ethical objections there are--one is almost inelined to say: fortu-
nately--technical obstacles. Even in cases of motivated attempts to kick the habit
_ the percentage of success is low. Reviews point at a rate of 10 percent permanent
cures. This gloomy figure is for addicts who tried because they wanted it themselves.
What then can be expected from groups who do not want to be cured at all? It is
absolutely not true that if heroin use is prevented for some weeks addicts are cured.
Physiological detoxification by itself takes a long time, the real process of kick-
ing the habit is of long duration; persons who are often psychically and socially
off the right track are gradually adjusting to a life without the drug: All over
again they have to learn to get used to the old rhythm, rediscover activities they
found significant, fight frustration without flights into euphoria, disengagement
from the scene, and orientation towards a new, or reorientation towards the old,
long abandoned circle of friends and relatives.
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Many Months
This takes many months. If one wants to f.'orce a person to break the habit, some
success can only be expected if the addict is detained for as long as it takes. We
wonder if the officials who advocate this treatment realize these points. Probably
not, they would hardly have come up with such plans if they had realized that they
would have to admit hundreds, if not thousands of addicts to institutes which do
not yet exist at all... ~
Besides that, even if such an operation were possible the ultimate rate of cured
addicts would be far below expectations. As long as heroin is easily available on
the market the danger of renewed addiction is always lurking in the shadows. This
is even probable because guarantees for decent living conditions--employment, housing,
- social acceptability--are missing.
A forced cure is senseless and has the extra disadvantage of distracting attention
from a really effective policy: A vigorous attack on the wholesale trade and the
creation of a closed circuit of assistance with enough capacity to take care of addicts
- who remain free to come and go as they want.
Children
However, it makes sense to treat minors as exceptions. Young persons are still develop-
ing in every respect and the chances are good that intervention will have a beneficial
and lasting effect, also bpcause their addiction cannot have been of too long a dura-
tion.
Ethical considerations d~ffer here also. It is society's duty to protect minors,
~ who are so flagrantly ru~.ning themselves, against themselves. There are no diff icult
legal hurdles to take. A minor should in principle live where parents or guardians
deem that necessary and there is sufficient legality for a closed institute to cure
drug addiction. Artificial legal constructions as an insanity clause are therefore
superfluous.
We can also support this idea when the addicted person himself is asking for approval
from the courts. On this basis he can be held ina psychiatric institute for a num-
ber of months. This could help him in weak moments which he will experience no matter
how motivated he may be.
This approach has a(literary) historical precedent. On his way home Odysseus had
to sail by the island of the Sirenes whose voices were as seductive as they were
fatal. In spite of themselves all voyagers listened to them and died miserably on
the island. Odysseus was eager to hear them! He knew that he would at the critical
moment not be able to resist and he took therefore care that he would not be free
to act. He ordered his friends to put wax in their ears and to tie him to the mast
in such a way that he would be unable to free himself. As best he could he impressed
upon them to keep rowing and pay no attention to his pleas or commands or to untie
- him. That is how it went and for Odysseus all was well that ended well. Addicts,
who want to protect themselves in a comparable manner against temptations they know
they are sometimes unable to resist, should be helped.
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Methadon
A completely different chapter is introduced by a long letter sent in March of this
- year to all physicians in the Netherlands by the Chief Medical Inspectors of Public
Health, Mental Health, and Public Health and Medicines.
The doctors are told in explicit detail what to do when they want to presecribe the
replacement drug methadone to addicts. They are unhesitatingly urged not to do this
as a general rule and to leave the responsibility to specialized institutes as Consult-
ing Bureaus for Alcohol and Drugs and municipal health departments. If they do pre-
scribe it, for instance if there is no such bureau in the area or it cannot cope
with the number of addicts, they should apply stricter rules.
Methadone may no longer be given in the form of pills but should be distributed on
a daily basis in liquid form; addicts should drink it on the spot. The physicians
are furthermore obligated to take part in a registration program (with guarantees
for the privacy of the addicts).
The letter also contains meticulous instructions on what to do and not to do if an
addict asks a doctor for methadone in the area where he is vacationing. Another
stern lecture forms the conclusion of the letter. The chief inspectors let them
know that their_i.nspec.tozs will car.efuJ:ly see to it that these instructions are carried
out.
No small matter, in some places doubt has been expressed about the possibility of
overkill which puts superfluous obstacles in the paih of a physician's initiative
to help addicts. .
Some time ago this publication criticized the above mentioned letter in a leading
article, frum our liberal viewpoint an understandable reaction. However, here we
must distinguish between unnecessary meddling and putting a stop to an attitude of
laxness which had reached serious proportions.
The department's initiative falls undoubtedly under the last category. We had a
heroin problem, for many years we have also been having a methadone problem. This
opium based drug is just as poisonous and addictive as heroin, only because of its
practical advantages it is used to replace heroin; after a while it became abundantly
and inexpensively available on the black market.
Resale
The cause? A great many doctors prescribed methadone at their own discretion, some
to enormous numbers of addicts. Many wrote perscriptions with high daily doses for
a week or longer. Addicts were thus in a position to resell an important part. The
profits were often used to buy heroin. This enormous leak became even bigger because
participation by physicians in maintaining a control register--to prevent double
delivery to one and the same person--was absolutely voluntary.
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The results were bad. Well intentioned individual assistance thus became a threat
to public health. Although the need to eliminate this abuse was regularly brought
to the attention nothing was done about it. The departic~ental instruction should
be seen against this background. Stringent instructions for medical operations are
also not unusual. There is perhaps an impression that doctors are free entrepreneurs,
in every respect responsible only to their own insights; this impression is incorrect.
The science of inedici.ne has its rules and regulations too; definitely in those areas
where individual actions can have further repercussions.
Heroin
For years perscribing heroin has been under discussion and requests to permit it
are still coming in. Contrary to methadone, heroin has the disadvantage that it
cannot be swallowed but that it must be injected (or sniffed, or smoked) and, also
contrary to methadone, it cannot be given in doses of one per day bui needs to be
administered 3 times a day. It loses its effect much quicker. Heroin is therefore
unsuitable for perscription programs: It is simply impossible to organize programs
in such a manner that resale on the black market would be impossible.
Voices have regularly been heard saying: Why so narrow minded? They can still be
heard even now. Let everybody be free to use heroin if he wants to. Let us then
immediately begin to distribute it legally; nobody will have to steal for it and
everybody will obtain pure material. Again a liberal point of view which looks good
at first sight. Unfortunately it is not so simple.
Heroin itself does r~ot follow the liberal rules of the game. One is free to begin
- with it but not to stop. I am still impressed by what a colleague of mine told me
a few years ago. To find out how it felt he decided to smoke heroin just once. A
state of unprecedented bliss came over him which lasted several hours. But here
is the catch: He expected to take a nice nap after the stuff had lost its effect--
- he felt so at ease--but just the opposite happened.
Awful Feeling
A feeling of restlessness and physical distress came over him. The first try with-
- dra~al symptoms already showed up! Only to a small degree, but, nevertheless, he
felt them. After repeated use these complaints become more serious in a very short
time and persons who have injected themselves or smoked heroin feel afterwards awful,
a feeling which can only be relieved by a fresh dose of the poison. A full-blown
withdrawal syndrome of a long time addict is horrible to behold. There are symtoms
_ of agitation and sleeplessness. The pupils of the eyes are as big as the irises.
The nasal passages are blocked and dripping mucus, the eyes are watery. There is
diarrhea, often also vomitting. However, more than anything elsethere are violent
pains in every bone and muscle forcing the addict to writhe with misery.
One who has regularly witnessed this becomes sceptical about statements as: Do not
worry, let everybody who wants to, use heroin.
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NORWAY
GOVERNMENT INCREASES FUNDS FOR FIGHTING NARCOTICS
Oslo AFTENPOSTEN in Norwegian 4 Sep 81 p 9
[Article by Torleif Andreassen: "22 Million Kroner Extra for Narcotics Struggle"]
[Text] With an extra appropriation of 22 million kroner the gover~ent will
initiate a more effective struggle against the narcotics evil. The money will,
among other things, be used for the following measures this year; increased
police eff orts and investigative activities, more narcotics dogs, and new tech-
nical equipment to prevent smuggling.
At a press conference in Oslo yesterdap Justice Minister B~orn Skau said he hoped
for good results from a holding campaign against narcotics. For 1981, 5 million
kroner has been appropriated for the campaign, which, however, will continue next
year. "The intent of the campaign is primarily that of combating the tendency
toward acceptance of using so'-called lighter drugs," said Skau, going on to say
that eff orts would be increased to prevent smuggling drugs into prisons. "In
addition to working hard to prevent drug abuse in the prisons, we shall increase
emphasis on rehabilitation work for convicts,'~ said the ~ustice minister. Attempts
to offer aid to parents with children with drug problems are included in the
gover~ent`s plan. �
Social *~inister Arne Nilsen pointed out that it was very important that parents
have a place to turn at any time of da}* or nigfit to seek aid. He thought that
such arrangements could be made through municipal social aid off ices without
great problems. Minister Nilsen further stated that various efforts wil7. be made
- to activate counties and municipalities in the fight on drugs. In this connec-
tion the social minister stressed the 3mportance of strengthening cooperation
among social authorities, the police, and school and health institutions.
Further, the minister stressed the necessity of starting preventive efforts,
early treatment effo rts, and a broader spectrum of offers to addicts who desire
treatment. In response to a question about haw counties and municipalities ~onld
be able to handle this financially, the social minister replied that it should be
possible to ad~ust fair measures in their budgets. He indicated that in connec-
tion with the distribution of the aid to counties and municipalities for 1982 it
might be possible to earmark a sum for ttteatment in this sector.
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It is not clear whether the government is willing to use forced treatment more
often than is the case today, but existing legislation on this ma~ter is beinR
- examined. Here, authority to r~tain patients beir..g cured of drug addiction will
l-e particularly stressed.
In response to a question of whether it is not a shame in our welfare society tha t
drug addicts who ask for treatment must be turned away, Skau replied that there
was not enough knowledge at~d personnel available to meet new problems. The minis--
ter characterized drug addiction as a new "illness of the people" which must be
fought by a broad sgectrum of inea.sures.
One of these measures is using advanced technical equipment to prevent smuggling
~ of narcotics into Norway. In additionD the customs authorities will increasingly
make use of narcotics dogs. In cooperation wi'~h the other Nordic countries
policemen will be stationed in seven countries to investigate attempts to smuggle
narcotics to Scandin~via and to map connecting lines to the international trade in
narcotics. Further, a computerized system wt'l1 be developed as an aid to revealing
narcotics crimes.
[Question] Minister Skau, isn't this oifensive too late in coming? The narcotics
problem is becoming unsolvable is it not?
[Answer] Much has already been done to combat drug sales. It is only recently ~
that we have had advanced, professional smuggling into Norway. It is in order to ;
f ight this develonment that we are proposing additional appropriations for the '
struggle against n.~rcotics.
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NORWAY
BOOK ON OSLO DRUG SCENE DF.TAILS YOUTH ADDICTION
Oslo ARBEIDERBLADET in Norwegian 26 Aug 81 p 10
[Article: "Shock Book on Narcotics Oslo"]
[Text] Between 500 and 1000 youths aged 11 to 20 live
their daily lives in Oslo in a hell of drugs, prostitution,
crime, and violence.
The social authorities place 14 to 15-year-olds in Oslo's.least expensive: hostels.
In some of these, conditions are so horrible that one 13ves there only if on.e has
to.
ln several of the hostels there is extensive abuse of alcohol; drugs are sold and
used. There is crime, prostitution, and violence. Both bays and girls are
exposed to rape or are threatened with it. So writes Hakon Formo Berntsen, former
leader of the Oslo vagrancy section, in his book "Drug Abuse--MythS and Rea.lity."
The book was presented on Aschehoug Publisfierrs fa11 li~t yesterday and will
shortly be in bookstores. Tha book is an unvarnisTied and unusually severe
criticism of society*s way of dealing with young drug addicts, In the foreword
Berntsen writes ~hat th~ book is intended as a sub3ect3ve contribution, written
at a time of harrassment and rejection of thousands of youths set adrift. "The
victims of the worst disto�rtions of soc~al development have become society~s
scapegoats. Young addicts are seen and dealt with as the lepers of our times,
- writes Berntsen, going on to say that the development in Oslo is at the pace of a
gallop. Since 1977 the development ha~ been explosive, and the extent of the
problem is increa~sinv,as is the number of deaths. The miserable health condition
among addicts make them easy victims of cynical pushers. Heroin of purity degrees
of from 30 to 70 percent cause addicts to lose control of what they ingest, result-
ing in an overdose. 2'hose who die are those who take in the nost drugs, but
Berntsen notes a dramatic worsening of the situation in Oslo`~s drug millieu. A
very large proportion of the youths with whom ~he vagrancy section has been in
long contact were, in 1980, described as in danger of their lives.
"It is impossible to accept that no money is available when the situation is so
precarious. The money can be found. The authorities and the politicians know
this, and therefore it is unacceptable tY?at young people--even though they are
- addicts--die or are miserable. Especially when we know that they can be helped
out of addiction and when so many of them express willingness and desire to be
helped," writes Berntsen.
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NORti�7AY
BRIEFS
SORLArIDET NARCOTICS ENFORCII`1ENT INCREASID--Customs surveillance in the south coast
area will be significantly improved in a reorganization to take place 1 Septe~nber.
As of that date up to 18 customs men will handle customs tasks. The most signi-
ficant improvement will be found in th: control of narcotics, according to customs
district chief Per M. Ha.sler. [Text] [Oslo ARBETDERBLADET in Plorwegia.n 26 Aug 81
p 3] 11,256
NARCOTICS POLICE STATIONEll ABROAD--Experts of the Norwegian narcotics police will
soon be permanently stationed abroad. For several years the Swedish police have
- :~ad narcotics detectives stationed in, among other places, Thailand and the
Ivetherlands, and Swedish experience has been so good that the other Nordic coun-
- tries have decided to station policemen abroad. Norway is planning to station two
narcotics detectives ai~road. Office chief Herman Berger of the ~ustice ministry
informs SUNNMORSP'OSTEN tha.t the two mosr likely st ations are England and
Pakistan. [Tex~J [Oslo NORGES HANDELS OG SJOFARTSTIDENDE in Norwegian 26 Aug 81
p 12] 11,256
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TURKEY
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BRIEFS
HEROIN SEIZURE--Narcotics units of the Istanbul security directorate have seized
3 kg of heroin. Following a tip that a narcotics smuggling gang is smuggling
heroin from Middle Eastern countries via Turkey, Istanbul narcotics units
cooperated with the FRG police and caught two female members of the gang at
Frankfurt Airport. The investigation was expanded and the other members of
the gang were caught in an Istanbul hotel with~3 kg of heroin. Four persons,
one of them Greek, were detained in connection with the incid~nt. [TA211829
Ankara Domestic Service in Turkish 1600 GMT 21 Sep 81 TA]
HEROIN SMUGGLERS CAUGHT--A joint operation carried out by the Turki~ti narcotics
branch and the West German police has resulted in the capture of two women
in Frankfurt and four men in Istanbul possessing a total of 3 kilos of heroin
worth 100 million lira. The detectives of the narcotics branch had obtained
- information that an international network was preparing to dispatch narcotics
- from the Middle East to Europe. The two women, named Hazul and Jasmin, were
caught at Frankfurt airport, hiding 170 grams and 360 grams of heroin, respec-
tively, in their private parts. The four men were caught at a luxurious hotel
in Istanbul in possession of 2 kilos and 400 grams of heroin. Investigations
have revealed that Athanasios Kalabalikis, a Greek subject, who specialized
iti determining the quality of the heroin and in dispatching 3.t, has also been
caught. Orhan Gokyayla, who was discovered to be the financier of the adventure,
- is now under arrest in Istanbul. [NC251344 Istanbul TERCUMAN in Turkish
_ 22 Sep 81 [no page given] NC]
ANTALYA HEROIN SEIZED--A statement by tt,e Antalya security directorate general
says that a total of 43 kg of heroin were seized in two parts of the province.
Two persons were detained in connection with the incidents. [TA291424 Ankara
' Domestic Service in Turkish 1000 GMT 29 Sep 81 TA]
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UNITED KINGDOM
'LPA' REPORTS ON LARGEST UK CANNABIS SEIZURE IN HISTORY
- LD282104 London LONDON PRESS ASSOCIATION in English 1920 GMT 28 Sep 81
[Text] A slick gang ot university graduates used a remote Scottish island to
smuggle into the United Kingdom the biggest haul of cannabis ever seized in the
nation's history, an Old Baily court heard today.
The "extremely intelligent" group landed 15 tons of high quality Colombian cannabis
--which had a street value of more than 20 million pounds.
Masterminding the UK end of the operation--codenamed Eagle--was Oxford graduate
Dennis Howard Marks, 36, said Mr John Rogers, prosecuting.
_ With military precision, Marks and hi:z team were dealing in "mind boggling quanti-
ties o~ ~annabis and money."
"It was crime on the grand scale.
"It was the largest-ever seizure of cannabis made in the United Kingdom.
- "It was larger than all seizures in any previous year in our history," said Mr Rogers.
But the gang panicked when they susnected customs men were on their trail--and
threw more than three tons of cannabis into the sea off the small and sparsely
populated Scottish island of Kerrera.
Outlining the "very slick, very smooth and very carefully glanned" international
operation, Mr Rogers said it began when the ocean going tug Karob set sail from
Bergen in Norway in the la~e summer of 1979.
It was bound "for a tiny island in the South Caribbean, Aruba, close to the Colum-
bian coast."
En route it hove-to in mid-Atlantic and was completely repainted.
The crew also built a false cabin on the aft deck to disguise it as it passed
through a U.S. Coastguard blockade.
~ From Aruba the Karos sailed for the West coast of Scotland and at midnight on Decem-
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The sput chosen was "one of the most baautiful ~~~1 dasarted eornera oY Seotland,"
Barr-nak-boc Bay on the Atlantic side of Kerrera.
It was so isolated that 210 bales of cannabis were left stacked, undetected, on the
beach for several days.
In dock with Marks of Hans Road, Chelsea, London, were American yacht broker
Morgan Stewart Prentiss, 41, of no fixed address, and former undergraduate Hedley
Morgan, 34, of Oakland Avenue, Potters Bar, Herts.
All three deny smuggling and dealing in cannabis and possessing it with intent to
supply. ~
Mr Rogers said that five others--including two other Oxford ~raduates, an artist
and a farmer with an agricultural degree--had already admitted their parts in the
organisation.
Marks was not the top nan in the whole organisation. "That somewhat dubious accolade
must necessarily go to a group of Americans on the other side of the Atlantic and
- therefore outside our jurisdiction."
"But Marks is the most important figure inside the UK concerned with the marketing
and sales of cannabis.
He was close enough to the top to be likely to get 10 percent of the total x~ceipts
of sales,'in the order of 1 million pounds.
Mr Rogers said Marks "had so many identities one wonders how on earth he remembered
who he was at any given point of time."
"It is of no surprise that a man of his background and intelligence set up the UK
side of the organisation just like a high-powered business."
Mr Rogers said Prentiss was a Californian university graduate who had lived in Scot-
land on and off over a number of years.
"He controlled the actual landing and storage of 15 tons of cannabis on its arri-
val in his country."
"He gave orders when he believed the operation had been detected for more than three
tons of cannabis to be destroyed and thrown out to sea.':'
The third defendant, Morgan, was a"well-paid employee but not concerned in the
operation's management. His ~ob was to count the mvuntains of cash which came in
_ and pay it into the bank."
By the time customs officers swooped, over three tons of the drug had been dumped
at sea and about four tons had been sold. The remaining seven-and-a-half tons was
recovered from dumps in Laindon, Essex, Pytchley, Northamptonshire and in the roof
of a remote Scottish farTnhouse. The trial was adjourned to Wednesday.
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~ DRUGS GANG ON TRIAL FOR SMUGGLING CANNABIS
London THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in English 16 Sep 81 p 3
[Article by Ian Henry]
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A$ECLUDED Cornish cove was used as the Potice and Customs men
- drop-off point bp a mu~ti-mi11;0II p0UIIC1 seized 60 packa~ges of cannabis
which had been loaded into a
drugs gang ta smuggle in hu~e consignments o~Lon
on and another60iwece
Of cannabis, the Dld Bal'1('y WaS t01d found in the beach cafe store.
More �than �3 million which
yesterday. , the Crown alleged wts proceeds
Over four ~ars the a landed dru s b the ton of drug sale was pa~~ ~n over
Y g~ g Y a three�year period to an
from North Africa.at Talland Bay betw~een Looe and accouat at the ~fidland Bank
P~lperro, it was alleged. International in Gracechurch
Street in the City. The cash
The gang used a Rolls- Leeds hotel where he was wait- was transEerred later to Gibral-
Royce to deliver rveekly in for a confirmation telephon~ tar.
�100,000 deposits to a City ~a~~� , �100,000 a week
bang account, Mr ROHERT The gang s capture - a
HAR~1~N, Q C, ~prosecuting Customs cutter overtook theic In the four months before
said. converted fishing trawler-was the gang.s capture, �1,300.000
But in a combined operation ~e final chapter in the lon,~ was paid int~ the s~me account
codenamed Operation Cyril in story of drug-runninq which at the rate of �100,000 a weeri,
Se tember. 1979, police and had begun in 1975. The police bIr Harman said.
P and Customs men had swooped The money was paid in by
Custams offi~ers lay in wait on after a long complicated and unemployed former jockey
the lonely beach and made a pe~sinent investigation, bir JAMES Joxes, 52, a former
moonlight ambush to catch the Harman said.
gang redhanded. The scene of the Cornish J~key. of Ellerv Road, Wimble�
They seized two tonnes of don, now in hospital and un-
ambus was described as able to stand trial, ~Ir Harman
cannabis resin just ianded from " exactly the sort of place said.
Gibraltar and worth millions of chosen by smugglers for cen� He appeared " over and over
pouads. In a simultaneous raid turies a being ideal for their aagin" at the bank with a suic-
on a store in Penge, a similar Pu~~s,~~ case full of cash driven in the
consignment ~vas found, l~ir Rolls�Royce of ~he missin;
' Harman said. Secret store defendant, Roxatn TAYLOR, 45,
Eight men including cwo A Land-Rover could be ~riven of St Lawrence Drive, Eastcote.
from Gibraltar on trial, all up to the water's. edge to� pick ~Ir Harman said that after
pleaded not ;uilty to con� up shipments ferried ashore b.y Taylor's arrest police found
spiracy to evade the prohibitiun rubber boa[ and a beach cafe �250.000 in cash in a safe in
on hhe tmport of drugs and to W}~h a secret basement store his basement. In a three-year
supplymg. Six other ;aag mem- was used. period, there were large credits
- bers have p'.eaded gu~ity, The shipment was only one totalling more than �785.000 to
another ha.s disappeared and {n a series of five that year Taylor's account at the 1Iidland
another is ill. which was landed by th! Bank, Streatham, of which
~Ir Harman said the alleged trawler, Guiding Lights. The �675,000 was withdrawn.
mastermind of the gang's Eng� trawler was converted and 6[-
lish connection, RoaexT i~'SiLLS, ted with radio; radar, automatic
- 43, a bookmaker, of Otto Street, pilot ard hidden compartmeats.
Wahvorth, was arrested in a
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Others on'trial STB: TREVOR
Co~es, 40, financial consultant,
of Aysgarth Road, Dultivich:
WILLIA~i 1~100N, 41, a roofer, of
Canortbie Road. Forest Hill;
Txo;~as L.1KE, 37, unemployed,
of Breton House, Abbey Street.
Southwack; De.tis VIADDEN, 29,
a builder, of Chestnut Avenue,
Langley, Bucks, and ROGER
HowTOx, 33, a salesman, of
Camberwell Grove, Cambec-
well.
The two frotn Gibraltar who
are charged are AMBROSE
VixaRes, 51, a bank manager,
and EDWARD VICTORY, 57, a
businessman. �
- The trial was adjourned
until today.
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UNITED KINGDOM
BRIEFS
CAtdNABIS SMUGGLER JAILED--An unemployed mecha~iic who rented three houses in India
and employed a butler, paid for by his drug-running activities, was jailed for
five years at Wolverhampton Crown Court yester3ay. Ian Hulland, of Welland
Grove, Erdington, Birmingham, admitted smuggling four hundredweight of cannabis
with a street value of nearly 400,000 pounds into Britain. The drug was hidden
inside concealed compartments in packing crates of furniture destined for a firm
at Wolverhampton, the court was told. [Text] [London THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in
English 12 Sep 81 p 3]
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