Turkey Rejects Five Million Offer To Destroy Poppy Crop
Defense Secretary Laird told a Senate panel Nixon offered Turkey 5 million dollars to destroy its 3 million dollar opium poppy crop but Demirel rejected the deal fearing a perception as an American lackey. The hearing also noted planned VA drug treatment centers and rising Americans jailed abroad for drug offenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Nixon
Turkey
Suleyman Demiral
Laird
Senate Appropriations
Sen
William Proxmire
D-Wise
Demirel
Subcommittee
United States
Incoming foreign mail may be opened for narcotics probe
Under new mail regulations the Customs Commissioner and Postal Inspector said sealed letters from abroad can be opened to search for contraband without the addressee’s consent. The change closes a loophole in efforts to curb heroin and marijuana into the United States.
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Washington
UPI
Customs
Myles J. Ambrose
William J. Cotter
Ambrose
West Coast Navy drug center to open at Miramar
The Navy will open its first West Coast drug rehabilitation center next week at Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego. Sailors will go there after detoxification in naval hospitals, with Balboa and Pearl Harbor noted among centers. President Nixon ordered the expansion, offering amnesty to voluntary rehab seekers and reporting 74 participants so far.
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San Diego
Navy
West Coast
Miramar Naval Air Station
Washington, D.C
Balboa Naval Hospital
Nixon
Pearl Arbor Naval Station
Last Mall
Miramar
Alfred W. Chandler Jr
Thalidomide verdict cut for mother overruled
In Los Angeles Tuesday a second jury cut Shirley White’s $200,000 award for her own injuries in a thalidomide case after ruling the suit was filed post statute of limitations. Her daughter Peggy Junc Carrick, 9, still receives $2,000,000 for damages. minors may sue until age 21. Richardson-Merrell Inc. manufactured the drug for U.S. experiments.
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Los Angeles
Wirs
Shirley M. Whitehead
Peggy JuncCarrick
Hichardson-Merrell Inc
Limitarians
Richardson-Merrell
Sacramento
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
Mervyn Dymally
de Los Angeles
Dumaily
Lill
California
Pentagon to spend 40.5 million on Vietnam drug program
Pentagon officials said the coming year budget funds $40.5 million to identify and treat GI heroin addicts in Vietnam. Testing will expand with unannounced screenings and new diagnostics by August. About 10 percent of service members in Vietnam are estimated heroin users, with discipline limited to prosecutions for admitted offenses.
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Sen
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
France
Laird
Nixon
Veterans Administration
Donald E. Johnson
Wasitington
UPI
Pentagon
Vietnam
T. Kelley
Senate
Alcoholism and Narcotics
Kelley
Maj
Morgan
Peck
Army
Robert. Garder
U.S
South Vietnam
Ley
Air Force
Navy
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Barbara W. Watson
Security and Consular Affairs
Mexico
Oakland
UPD
Womman
Warlene Jackson
Alameda County Hospital
Jackson
Canada
Spain
Japan
Germany
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Sweden
Defense
Deiivel
Proxmire
Congress
Middle East
West Coast Navy Drug Center
Henreden
Drexel
Heritage
Woodmark
Widdicomb
Long Beach Blvd
Long Beach
Richard 5. Sellweicker
R-Pa
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