THE DRUG SMUGGLERS' CHALLENGE - Jeff E Zhorne - May 1982

Jeff E Zhorne

Cracking down on worldwide narcotics trafficking is like emptying the ocean with a teacup. So say enforcement officials who estimate that no more than, 10 percent of the heroin leaving the Golden Triangle through Thailand last year - in airliner restrooms, sewn inside baseballs or taped to smugglers' bodies was intercepted. Concealed in air freight cargoes, multimillion dollar shipments of drugs are smuggled into the United States of America each year, thanks to farmers who continue to cultivate the opium poppy plant. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library