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...remained common only on the margins of society--in clubland, in gay America, in lower Manhattan. But in the past year or so, ecstasy has returned to the heartland. Established drug dealers and mobsters have taken over the trade, and they are meeting the astonishing demand in places like Flagstaff, Ariz., where "Katrina," a student at Northern Arizona University who first took it last summer, can now buy it easily; or San Marcos, Texas, a town of 39,000 where authorities found 500 pills last month; or Richmond, Va., where a police investigation led to the arrest this year...
Gloria, a court administrator, and Gary, a computer expert, are train aficionados. They had recently done a trip from Duluth (through Chicago) to Flagstaff, Ariz., and now they were on their way to Gulf Shores, Ala., by way of New Orleans. "You talk to such interesting people on the trains," Gloria observed. (That's Lesson No. 4, and it includes the crews, who leave their families and work together for so much time...
...Customs commissioner Raymond Kelly says professional criminals in this country have brought better management and marketing to the ecstasy trade. Mobsters have the distribution networks to move millions of pills. And most pills now come with a catchy brand name--like the "Candy Canes" taken in Flagstaff (red-and-white capsules) or tablets stamped with corporate logos. Users can ask dealers for a good brand by name. Last year's "Mitsubishis," for instance, were hugely popular because they seemed to have an extra kick of speed. This winter's "AOLS," however, were duds...
...There are, of course, other potential perpetrators. Police are still looking for other Ressam accomplices who may be at large in the U.S. or Canada; and they have no leads as yet in the large thefts of explosives over the past week in Flagstaff, Arizona and Fresno, California. But rather than simply taking precautions and waiting for the bad guys to make their move, the authorities are taking the offensive. And that forces at least some of the terrorists to play defense...
...time for the politicians of America to begin examining the sexual lives of reporters. KATHY ECKLES-HOOKER Flagstaff, Ariz...