Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 24, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Thailand blamed dreams for heroin flow to sour Winnic us Pekks. Tuesday july 24. 1973 Washington a a re port to a congressional Coin Miller says a major share o heroin coming to the United slates flows almost freely from Thailand unhampered by corrupt thai officials and meagre . Anti drug efforts. The report to the House of representatives foreign affairs committee was written by con Gressmen Lester Wolff dem recently named chair Man of a special narcotics sub committee. The report is to be released thursday. A copy was obtained press. By the associated the report says that of tons of opium grown annually 700 tons comes from the so called Golden Triangle area of Burma Laos and Thailand with the latter country the key to the trafficking of heroin base and heroin derivatives of opium. It quotes american officials As saying thai police Seldom seize opium caravans partly because of a Lack of expertise and partly because of an unwillingness on the part of some officials to exert the Effort Nec Essary to intercept the although conceding a Lack of manpower the report adds that much of the blame seems More properly attributable to corruption and Lack of co opera Ion among Middle and i lower Echelon Law enforcement j officials. Drugs of Ali types Are read ily available throughout thai land and Are widely used by american personnel stationed there says the report. . Attempts to gain the co operation of thai officials have largely failed the report says. Essential to stopping the drug traffic says the report is the capture of about a dozen thai trawlers used to smuggle narcotics from Bangkok to other ports primarily Hong Kong which it describes As the Centre of the asian narcotics Trade. These trawlers sail unimpeded the year around de spite official knowledge of their use and the availability of sophisticated detection Cle the report alleges the United states has made Only half carted efforts to Cope with he opium based drug traffic at to sources contending that h i s has caused Southeast asian authorities to ignore american agents when they ask for help. The report says Only 26 Bureau of narcotics and Dan serous drugs agents and six . Custom agents have been assigned to Southeast Asia. Moscow Reuter the russian dream of a Home o one s own can become a night because the solve building year ends in mid ukrainian town o Winter. In the _ Kharkov a delighted new Homeowner approached the in trance of his House but then recoiled in dismay. He clutched a key but there was no front door to open. I stepped inside and an icy Bias from the Steppes hit him. The windows were open and in was unable to close them. The temperature on this de Cember Day was 30 below and any thought of inhabiting the new Home was out of the ques in. His was not the Only exam ple in the Kharkov area of in o m p 1 e t c or shoddily built Mes. Others in neighbouring new blocks discovered there were no doorsteps. In one House a proud new owner thought everything was Ine until he plugged in a amp. Nothing discovered there was no Power linkup to the Wall sockets. Talking books on air by Terrt Caney Belleville 111. A at 7 . Every Day a radio station takes to the air from this Southern Illinois City to broadcast to a select group of 100 listeners. A special receiver is needed to pick up the programs and there Are eligibility require ments on who gets them. It s part of a program called the talking Book a closed Cir Cuit radio sen ice designed to provide in depth news and educational information for Blind and physically handicapped persons in the St. Louis area. The program originates from wary. Operated by the roman Catholic priests of the Blates of Mary immaculate order. The talking Book is it urges Congress to furnish j elsewhere a Man and his funds to train More agents for1 wife a Bathtub in the it had been be t h e drug enforcement and j ministration newly created by j president Nixon s reorganize i lion of drug Law enforcement agencies. Funding must be substantially increased to combat a drug flow valued at Over the report says. Rented in at an Angle almost lying on its the Dis traught owner complained. Many owners of new Homes completed in a Rush to beat the dec. 31 deadline find it impossible to occupy them immediately Moscow s literary Gazette wrote in a Survey of soviet Home building. In Homes like this completed in Winter Many occupiers could Only move in ;