Turkey rejects U S bid to destroy opium crops
Defense Secretary Laird testified that President Nixon offered Turkey five million dollars to destroy its three million dollar opium poppy crop but Prime Minister Demirel declined citing not wanting to seem an American lackey. The hearing also covered US drug-traffic talks with Turkey, VA drug treatment expansion, and rising Americans jailed abroad on drug charges.
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Washington
UPI
Melvin R. Laird
Nixon
Turkey
Suleyman Detmirel
Laird
Senate
William Proxmire
Dwis
Demirel
Defense
Demire
Incoming letters opened foreign mail may be probed
Washington officials announced new mail regulations allowing inspections of incoming foreign letters without the recipient’s consent to search for narcotics and other contraband. Customs Commissioner Myles J. Ambrose and Postal Inspector William J. Cotter said the rule closes a lapse in border controls amid the fight against heroin marijuana and other drugs.
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Washington
UPI
Customs
Myles J. Ambrose
William J. Cotter
Ambrose
U.S
West Coast Navy drug center opens at Miramar
The Navy will open its first West Coast drug rehabilitation center next week at Miramar Naval Air Station following hospital detox. Balboa Naval Hospital serves as a detox point. Under President Nixon, Pearl Harbor center opened last month, with an East Coast site planned. Amnesty invites voluntary rehabilitation. Capt. Alfred W. Chandlet Jr. reports 74 participants so far.
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San Diego
Navy
West Coast
Miramar Naval Air Station
Washington, D.C
Naval
Balboa Naval Hospital
Nixon
Pearl Harbor Naval Station
Miramar
Alfred W. Chandlet Jr
Thalidomide award reduced in L A suit
A $2.2 million judgment to Shirley White and her daughter Peggy Jo McCarrick was cut by $200,000 on grounds the mother's suit may have expired under the statute of limitations. The daughter remains eligible to sue for damages until age 21. Richardson-Merrell Inc. produced the drug for U S testing.
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Los Angeles
Shirley M. Whitehead
Peggy Jo McCarrick
Richardson-Merrell Inc
Richardson-Merrell
Pentagon drug war budget and Vietnam screening program
Pentagon officials announced a 40.5 million dollar plan to identify and treat GI heroin users in Vietnam, with detox and treatment for those who test positive. Testing may be unannounced and new single-sample tests will be available by August. Costs are broken out by service branch and a suggested 10 percent of servicemen in Vietnam are heroin users.
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YWE Veterans Administration
Nixon
Veterans Administration
Washington
UPI
Pentagon
Vietnam
Defense
T. Kelley
Senate
Alcoholism and Narcotics
Kelley
Morgan S. Peck
Army
Robert &. Gard Jr
U.S
South Vietnam
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