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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Sunday, October 19, 1969

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Hashish:

The

new

Lebanese

tourist trap

BEIRUT, Lebanon UP)) - Sea
and sunshine are not the only at-,
tractions this Middle Eastern
tourist mecca. Hashish also is
bringing visitors to Lebanon-drug'
smugglers big and small, amateur
and professional
The illegal export of Lebanese
hashish, regarded highly by con-
noisseurs, is estimated to earn this
country up to $17 million a year.
Known in the underworld nar-
cotics trade as "sandstone," which
it resembles, hashish from the
parched and stony fields of Her-
mel and ancient Baalbek is be-
coming increasingly available in
American and European cities.
Operation Intercept, the U.S.
crackdown on drug smuggling
across the Mexican border, is ex-
pected to boost further the de-
mand for the Lebanese product.
A concentrated form of mari-
juana, hashish is at least six times'
as potent. It is usually pressed in-
to cakes of about a pound and'
packed in muslin bags. Lebanese
wholesalers often will supply it
already stowed away in false-
bottom suitcases.
Hashish has earned a fortune
for many prominent Lebanese.
Now American and European
youngsters, many of them stu-
SfJ ine

dents, are getting into lucrative tacts in Lebanon. The supplier
smuggling. gets prior notice of the courier'sa
Some solicit contributions from name as a precaution against po-
pot-smoking friends to finance lice traps.
their trip. Others work for inter- Top quality "hash" can be
national drug smuggling rings for bought by a foreigner in Lebanon
a fee and all expenses paid. for about $25 a kilogram, 2.2
One such ring, which recently pounds. A Lebanese will pay slight-
moved its headquarters from Paris ly less. In Copenhagen it fetches
to Rome, has couriers playing reg- $1,500, up to $4,000 in San Fran-'
ularly between Europe and Leban- cisco.
on. Two were arrested here this Pure heroin sells in Beirut for
year carrying 180 pounds of hash- $3,077 a kilo. In New York it may
ish. bring 825.000 to X5000.Mixed

by the number of foreigners ar- erators, all of them known to po-
rested it must be considerable." lice, were left alone.

A narcotics squad detective cit-
ed the case of a 19-year-old Am-
erican student to show how the
rings operate.
In New York, the student was
given his air ticket and expenses'
and booked for a hotel here. A
telephone call instructed him to
take a cab to a lonely spot on the
road to the southern city of Sidon.
He walked from there down a
sideroad and 15 minutes later was
met by a Lebanese. He handed ov-
er $300 and was given a suitcase
containing hashish.
The distinctive smell gave him
away. The hotel manager tipped
off police and the American was
arrested. But there were no leads
to the big men behind him.
Other couriers are given tele-
phone numbers as their only con-

with milk powder to the ratio of
at least seven to one and sold to
the addict in quarter-gram pack-
ets for up to $50, a single kilo of
heroin may eventdally realize $21
million.
Considering its availability, sur-
prisingly few Lebanese smoke has-
hish. Until the 1967 Arab-Israeli
war most of the crop went to
Egypt.
Israel's occupation made the Si-
nai route difficult.
U.S. federal agents working here
in close cooperation with local po-
lice report a significant increase
since the war in the quantity of
hashish finding its way from Le-
banon to America and Europe, es-
pecially Scandinavia.
"The volume of traffic is sheer
guesswork," said one, "but judging

In 1968, 318 smugglers were ar-
rested in Lebanon. Some 60 for-'
eigners, American, British, French,
Germans and Danish, are in jail
on drug charges.
Smuggling carries a mandatory
sentence of at least three years.
Possession of narcotics usually
brings 18 months. Heavy fines al-
so are imposed.
Despite the foreign currency
earnings which hashish repre-
sents, Lebanon is seeking to cur-
tail the traffic.
The law forbids cultivation of'
cannabis, the plant from which1
marijuana and hashish are ob-
tained, but farmers often were
tacitly premitted to continue with+
the crop. Successive governments+
explained that the land was poor'
and hashish almost the only source"
of income. .
There may have been other rea-
sons. Some prominent politicians
are suspected of being actively en-!
gaged in the business and many
have friends and relatives eitherr
growing or trafficking in the drumg
Two years ago, a Beirut news-
paper charged that while smail-
time sellers and addicts were be-
ing brought to justice, the big op-E

"The authorities could wipe out
the entire narcotics business in
this country in 48 hours if they
really wanted to," claimed a doc-
tor quoted by the Daily Star.
Today drug smugglers don't have
it so good. Lebanon now has an,
energetic narcotics squad of 34
men which has scored some not-
able coups.
Of 10 people known to have op-
erated illicit heroin laboratories
here, nine are in jail. The 10th,
who produces heroin of a remark-
able 96 per cent purity, has fled
to Syria. Last year, 4,350 kilos of
hashish were seized.
Four big-time smugglers re-
cently were caught at the airport
carrying 10 kilos of heroin con-
cealed in baggage. The drug was
destined for Miami-to a Cuban'
refugee of Lebanese origin - by
way of Holland and Curacao.
More than 500 kilos of opium.,
concealed in bales of cotton, were
seized in Marseille this summer as
a result of information supplied'
by Lebanese police and U.S. feder-
al agents here. A wealthy Lebanese
and a Turk were arrested.
In 1966 the government launch-
ed a campaign to persuade farm-
ers to grow sunflowers, for oil
seeds, instead of cannabis. Free
seeds were distributed and the crop
bought by the government at a
heavily subsidized price, well
above its world market value.

Begun on 200 acres of land be-
longing to 17 farmers, the scheme
has grown this year to 10,000
acres belonging to some 800 farm-
ers, the government says. This is"
costing more than $1 million a
year.

"Operation Sunflower" contains!
elements likely to prove self-de-
feating. A United Nations report
notes: "The laws of the market tude.
will raise the price of hashish as I
its supply is reduced by the exten-
sion of sunflower cultivation. 3529 S.A.B.
When price of hashish rises, the
Lebanese government would not
be able to afford to keep on in-
creasing the sunflower subsidies.____
There cannot be a race with the
traffickers . ..
"Because of the strong competi-
tive position of hashish, the sun-
flower program can only meet its
purpose if at the same time strong
measures are taken to enforce the
law."
Litter doesn't throw
itself away; litter
doesn't just happen.
People cause it-and
only people can prevent
it. "People" means you.
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FEDERAL PROGRAMS:

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have changed recruiting policies
through institutional channels.
A formal vote on a written
opinion will be taken sometime
next week, according to CSJ
Chairman Marc Wohl. No changes
are expected, however, in the ver-
dict or fine.
Most of the discussion in yester-
day's CSJ meeting centered on the
extent of the punishment to be
given to SDS and Rotkin. CSJ
members had informally agreed at
a meeting Thursday night that the
two remaining defendants were
guilty.
"They should be made responsi-
ble, but we should recognize that
the issue has moral merits," said
CSJ member Barbara Addison,
arguing for a lower fine.
Wohl urged that Rotkin, as an
individual, be given a significantly
lower fine than SDS as a group.
"As long as we didn't have the
whole group up individually, it
would be wrong to fine just one
person heavily," he explained.
Wohl said SDS's status as an
official organization could be re-
voked by SGC and Rotkin's diplo-
ma withheld if they refuse to pay
the fine.
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take it off
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depends on the angle they like
'em at; if they like them droopy,
they like girls who don't wear
bras. It depends on the boy-
not all males are attracted to
breasts."
Most males feel that the ul-
timate effect of going bralessj
depends on the girl,
"Actually, relatively few girls
can cary it off effectively -
breasts in reality are more dis-
appointing than the pictures,"
admitted one 26-year-old bach-
elor.
"If a girl is not particularly
good looking and yet has a
good figure, the no-bra look is
definitely an enhancement. On
the other hand, unattractive
sagging breasts lose something
in the aesthetic translation," he
explained.
Others have no doubts about
the success of the braless look.
"~Wouln't have it. any other
way. was a happy med stu-
dent's answer.
THE
END
OF THE
BLIND
DATE!

inner city-suburbia disparity

U-M TUTORI
prese

WASHINGTON (IP-A new sur-
vey of federal aid to schools shows
many urban systems get less than
the national average of $53 per
pupil while some affluent suburbs
receive more than the national
average.
One reason for the disparity, ,
according to the survey, is that
many rural and inner city schoolI
administrators are not aware of1
assistance programs the federal
government offers. This has had
the effect of sending more funds
into areas where needs are less
critical, the survey says.
The survey was conducted by
an educational consultant, How-
ard S. Rowland, as part of a na-
tional compilation of all federal
help to towns and cities. The sur-
vey is scheduled for publication
by MacMillan in the spring.
Rowland, co-author with Rich-
ard Wing of the guide "Federal
Aid to Schools," reports that the
inner city-suburbia disparity ex-
ists despite the fact that 37 per
cent of federal school funds are
specifically designated for disad-'

vantaged pupils who are concen-
trated in big-city school systems.
Rowland reports that nearly 40
per cent of school administrators
questioned were not aware of the
full range of federal assistance
programs available.
"The administrator's knowledge
of which programs are available
is directly related to the amount
of federal aid received by a school
district since most federal pro-

grams award grants on the basis
of unsolicited proposals," Rowland
points out.
Summarizing his findings, Row-
land reports: "Twenty per cent of
the school districts surveyed re-
ceive more than the national aver-
age of federal aid per student. On
the other hand, 50 per cent of
metropolitan school systems in the
survey are receiving less than the
national average."

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Major General Smedley Butler wrote in 1935--"I spent 33 years and four
months in active service as a member of our country's most agile military
force-the Marine Corps. . . . And during that time I spent most of my time
being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and the
bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
"Thus I helped mke Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American
oil interests in 1914. 1 helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the
Natonal City Bank boys to collect revenue in.... I helped purify Nicaragua
for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. 1
brought light to the Dominican Republic for American Sugar interests in
1916. 1 helped make Honduras 'right' for American fruit companies in 1903.
In China, in 1927, I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way un-
molested.
"During those years I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a
swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. Looking back
on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do
was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on
three continents." From Common Sense-1935.
To Serve Capitalst Interests:
In 1958, John Foster Dulles said: "The United States today is exporting to
the non-Communist countries of the Far East at the rate of over $2.5 billion
a year.
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TODAY

NEXT SUNDAY

CHARLES EVERS

This is the man who is turning the southern power
structure on its ear. His daring approach to the prob-
lems of governing a small southern town has catalyzed
both loyal support and bitter attacks from all portions
of the nation. Evers' drive for Fayette's mayoralty
brought endorsements from many national leaders: the
disruption of traditional Mississippi brand of politics
led to a recent attempt on his life.

GEOGE RVGOVERN
Long an opponent of the Vietnam debacle, Mc-
Govern rose to the fore front of national politics when
he entered the race for the 1968 Democratic Presi-
dential nomination. Today he stands as one of the lead-
ing critics of the Administration's foreign policy and
most recently vocalized his discontent by actively sup-
porting and porticipating in last week's Moratorium.
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