Word: bases
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Last year coach Loyal Park began the spring baseball tour of the South with John Ballantyne at third base Behind Ballantyne was Dan DeMichele, who had been with the team less than a week because of the extended hockey season...
...stage was the one of actually building socialism, of developing the technology, the economic base, and the organization of work necessary for Cuba to fight its way out of underdevelopment. That fight is still going on. Batista had been defeated. Now, as Fidel said, "Our enemy is underdevelopment...
...grown as a cash crop in Turkey, Mexico and the "golden triangle" of Southeast Asia: the northern portions of Burma, Thailand and Laos. The U.S. is putting heavy pressure on Turkey to end legal poppy growing, so far without much success. Raw opium is converted into so-called morphine base; much of the U.S. supply is refined into heroin at simple clandestine laboratories in southern France. It has come into the U.S. concealed in the toilets of international jets, in cans carrying Spanish fish labels, in hollowed-out ski poles, in automobiles, in false-bottomed wine bottles and crates...
That is not surprising, considering the temptation of astronomical profits. One kilogram?2.2 Ibs.?of morphine base is worth $350 in Turkey; after it is refined to heroin in France, the price jumps to $3,500; unloaded in New York City, it is worth $18,000 before dilution. By the time the heroin gets to the street pusher, it is in one-ounce lots of 25% heroin?the rest is usually milk sugar or quinine?that cost the pusher $500 each. The pusher further cuts the diluted drug into glassine packets of 5% heroin, which he sells...
...sewage into Monterey Bay. The suit, filed in the state superior court, asks civil penalties of $6,000 for every day since Jan. 1 for ignoring a cease-and-desist order that was issued against Fort Ord by a water-quality-control board. If the court agrees that the base continued to pollute the bay, the Army would face a fine of nearly...