A SPOOKY ATMOSPHERE was taken on by the Teddybear Storytime at the Capilano branch of the North Van-

couver District library last week as children were encour: 2d to wear costumes and listen to Hallowe'en stories. (lan
Smith photo)

SAN DIEGO (UPI -
Smoking “Persian Gold”
heroin from Iran may be the
“in” thing of the next drug
culture generation and
Iranian immigrant dealers
may corner the market, a
U.S. national Health In-
stitute expert predicted
Friday.
' “If you get the availability
in this country of high
quality heroin, I think you're
going to see smoking as the
pattern of the future.” Dr
Richard S. Burns of the
National Institute of Mental
Health in Bethesda. Md.,
told the 16th annual meeting
of the Cahforma Narcotcs
Officers Association

“When at's offered at a
party. it may be called
something else, just as the
GI's in Vietnam were told
they were smoking coke
when it was actually heroin
We are seeing a vast number
of drugs being smoked |

think its probably the new
era”

Abraham Azzam, deputy
director of the special action
office of the federal Drug
Enforcement Ad-
ministration, said the newest
drug threat was quality
heroin from the “Golden
Crescent” countries of Iran,
Pakistan and Afghanistan.

He said the estimated
40,000 Iranians living in the
sunbelt of Southern
California and Arizona have
created a network to bring
them heroin directly from
Iran.

When relations with Iran
were broken dunng_ the
hostage cnsis. Azzam said,
“We were able to destroy
their couner network which
involved mostly students,
whom we called the ‘mules’ ”

“But that left) the well:
organized insidious traf
fiackers who recrumted third

world nationals to smuggle
the heroin,” Avzam said

He said che “Golden
Crescent produced a

SPECIAL NOTICE

All branches closed
Tuesday, November 11.

Because of the Remembrance Day

Smoking heroin may
soon be the ‘in’ thing

bumper 700 metric tons of
opium (the base for heroin)
in 1978-79, compared with
only 70 metric tons
estimated produced during
the height of Mexico's brown
heroin boom in the mid-

1970's.
Sgt. Michael A. Guy of
the Los Angeles Police

Department’s narcotics
division said “Recent DEA
figures indicate that 17 per
cent of the heroin in this
country is from’ those
countries. Our intelligence
tells us that in time it may
reach the. street tevel,
perhaps in three years.” he
said.

Meanwhile, he said, the
“Golden Crescent” opium its
slaying within the = tight
Iranian immigrant) com-
munities

“These are
classical heroin addicts.
They don't use the dirty
needles, but smoke it in their
homes socially, just as you
offer someone a dnnk ”

nol your

holiday, all five branches

of the North Shore Community
Credit Union will be closed

Tuesday November 11.

All branches will be open as usual
on Saturday November 8 and
resume requiar working hours
on Wednesday November 12.

‘North Shore Community

Credit Union

5 Branches serving North Vancouver

A25-Wednesday, November 5, 1980 - North Shore News

Even the poor must pay

By ANDREW COHEN said Monday.
OTTAWA (UPC) - All The Canadian Council on
Canadians have to bear the Social Development had siad

cost of higher energy prices the proposed energy price
and not even the poor or _ increases and a forecast drop
those on fixed incomes can in funding for social
expect tax concessions to programs would have a
ease the burden, Finance “devastating impact” on the

poor.

Minister Allan MacEachen

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