Correspondents' Correspondence The 'Milan Connection'
LAND, THOMAS
JANUARY 26, 1981 ? $1 00 58 TH YEAR OF PUBLICATION ANDREW MOLLISON BIWEEKLY OF NEWS AND OPINION jgaaer The Reagan Repartee Liberals and the Rural Vote RICHARD J. MARGOIIS Poet's...
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...This would provide the Mafia with a golden opportunity to further entrench itself in the Middle Eastern drug market.??Thomas Land...
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...it is studying the possibilities of linking development aid programs with crop substitution in supplier countries...
...JANUARY 26, 1981 ? $1 00 58 TH YEAR OF PUBLICATION ANDREW MOLLISON BIWEEKLY OF NEWS AND OPINION jgaaer The Reagan Repartee Liberals and the Rural Vote RICHARD J. MARGOIIS Poet's Notebooks PHOEBE PETTINGELL Differences of Craft LEO SAUVAGE Balanchine's Extraordinary People M. ANATOLE GUREWITSCH 'Lulu' on the Tube JOHN YOHALEM WALTER GOODMAN R\SSING THROUGH CHINA Between Issues Some months ago here in New York, representatives of several prominent cultural, social, fraternal, and labor organizations met to discuss the 85th anniversary of an institution they greatly value...
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...These developments coincided with a reorganization of the Mafia in Italy, Europe's natural land-bridge to drug sources in the Near East...
...The Milan Connection has meanwhile shown itself to be far more dangerous than its predecessor in Marseilles...
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...They fear that thecurrent trend of large drug seizures, drastically lowered street prices and a correspondingly growing number of addicts may be intensified as suppliers in the "Golden Crescent" countries of the Middle East release their latest bumper opium-poppy harvest...
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...it focused on the critical need to raise $600,000 by April 22,1982...
...Many members of the European Par liament have also urged a strategy of working with the health and law enforcement authorities of the drug producing states...
...3 The 'Milan Connection'/thomas land The Reagan Repartee/Andrew mollison...
...In addition, it encouraged the development of Yiddish literature and the arts...
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...The Crescent comprises parts of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan...
...And since the country has been beset by recurring gov-ernmentcrises, avast "unofficial" economy, and a virtually open guerilla warfare conducted by political extremists that has occupied the attention of law enforcement agencies, it has proved to be an ideal replacement for France as the principal center serving the trade...
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...At its founding in 1897, the waves of immigrants arriving on these shores in flight from oppression in Europe found themselves facing a new villain: the sweatshop...
...In the light of Western Europe's uneasy relations with the Crescent countries, however, the cautious Community may well postpone a decision on any meaningful action to deal with the spreading plague...
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...Readers of this magazine will agree, we think, that it behooves all of us to help mark its 85th anniversary by sending a check to theFor-ward, 45 East 33rd Street, New York, New York 10016...
...We have noted before in this space that The New Leader and what is still the world's largest Yiddish-language newspaper come from the same mishpocha, we share the same family...
...In addition, the number of known addicts here has increased by 37 per cent, or 11,000 people ??many of them under 25 years of age ??bringing the total of Italian heroin users to well over 100,000...
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...The Forward became their champion??exposing the ruthless working conditions and the exploitation of child and female labor...
...European customs authorities seized almost as much heroin per month in 1980 as they did during all of 1979.TheOECD estimates that the annual volume of opium illegally exported from the Mideast is 15,000 tons, compared to 400 tons from Southeast Asia...
...The "Milan Connection" today provides a lucrative link between Middle East suppliers and the expanding black markets in Western Europe and North America...
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...Certainly when it had the wherewithal, it was there with assistance to help relieve our own chronic financial problems...
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...Health ministers of the European Economic Community have been considering a common policy to combat the illegal commerce, both among member states and elsewhere...
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...Most of the produce arrives through Turkey, after having been refined into two types of heroin...
...The drug trade had been dominated by the infamous Marseilles heroin ring, the "French Connection," which was broken up recently through the cooperation of French and American police...
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...Trying to halt the drug traffic is a more delicate proposition than is generally recognized...
...Politically, it maintained a staunch anti-Communist, democratic socialist stance, and although it remained independent of any party, it vigorously fostered the growth of a liberal social consciousness...
...But the talk did not turn on a gala dinner to mark the occasion...
...Drug addiction in Western Europe has been rising dramatically...
...Drug Enforcement Agency, who follow the European situation very closely, now believe that heroin deaths in the Common Market countries considerably outnumber those in the States...
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...Singer, and the Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, who to this day first publishes his stories in Yiddish in the Forward, reached a wider English audience...
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...Until fairly recently, the hard-pressed national security agencies of those countries welcomed the help of Western narcotics experts in fighting the crime syndicates...
...Indeed, since this month the NL entered its 58th year, it might well be said that in many respects the magazine is the English-language offspring of the Forward...
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...After that coup degrdce opium production declined in Thailand, Laos and Burma??hitherto the world's principal suppliers??partly as a result of international efforts to encourage crop substitution and partly because a harvest was ruined by torrential rains...
...For its Jewish readers, meanwhile, it also served as a vehicle of acculturation??giving immigrants instruction on how to adapt to their new homeland, informing them of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and offering advice on how to cope with almost any personal problem...
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...Soon it was shaping an impoitant segment of the American labor movement with its militant demands for, and support of, honest trade unionism...
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...But this cooperative atmosphere was an early casualty of the political turmoil and Great Power tension caused by the Islamic Revolution, the hostage crisis in Iran and the Russian invasion of Afghanistan...
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...In Italy such deaths have quadrupled within the last year...
...The 'Milan Connection' Milan??Thanks to the enterprise of the Mafia in this city, Italy has emerged in the past year as the Western World's main distribution center for illegal drugs...
...It exploits major shifts in the production and distribution of most of the world's heroin??demonstrating how easily organized crime can adjust to changes in the market forces as well as in international relations...
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