Source: http://www.newspage.com/TOPIC/d21/d1/d8/ Pubdate: April 04, 1997 * COLOMBIANS MAKING INROADS INTO U.S. HEROIN MARKET NARCOTICS ENTREPRENEURS PROVIDING PURER DRUGS IN NORTHEAST AT PRICES THAT UNDERCUT THEIR ASIAN COMPETITORS Standing waisthigh in red, pink and violet poppy flowers, a peasant delicately slits a plant bulb with a razor. Milkywhite opium gum, the key ingredient in heroin, oozes from the gash. [ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, PAY PER VIEW, 462 words, $1.00] Orlando Sees Increase in `Raves' This family friendly tourist city has become a mecca for a more hedonistic group of fun seekers _ young people looking for allnight dance parties where illicit drug use is common. [Associated Press, PREMIUM, 523 words] NEW THERAPY/ ROAD TO CURE, OR JUST RELAXATION? After nine years of freebasing cocaine, Gregory Todd says he owes his clean lifestyle to a new therapy that uses soothing musical tones to stimulate brain waves. [MIAMI HERALD, PAY PER VIEW, 1057 words, $1.00] Commandos Take Over Golden Triangle Drug Trade Heroin factories in the Golden Triangle are flourishing again as they once did under nowretired drug warlord Khun Sa but this time at the direction of his longtime rivals, ethnic Wa guerrillas. [Reuters, PAY PER VIEW, 514 words, $1.00] Portugal Seizes More Than 6,000 Kilograms of Drugs in 1996 Portuguese police seized a total of 6,218 kilograms of narcotics in 1996 and arrested 3,724 people suspected of drug trafficking, a police report said today. [XINHUA, BASIC, 161 words] Bulgarian customs forsake soccer to make drug bust When seems a good time to smuggle heroin across the Bulgarian border? when Bulgaria's World Cup soccer team is in action and customs officers are glued to their television sets. [Reuters, PAY PER VIEW, 117 words, $1.00] Two Turks arrested in heroin haul Customs officers at the BulgarianRomanian border arrested two Turks after finding 25 kilograms of heroin hidden in their car, state radio reported Thursday. [Associated Press, PREMIUM, 137 words] SIX MEXICAN NATIONALS ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES Six Mexican nationals were arrested Tuesday after authorities seized more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana and an estimated $9,000 in cash from a southeast Fresno home. [FRESNO BEE, PAY PER VIEW, 883 words, $1.00] Brother of Former Mexican President Linked to Cocaine Smuggling By Andres Oppenheimer KnightRidder/Tribune Business News MEXICO CITYApr. 3Swiss prosecutors say the brother of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari was linked to the smuggling of "40 to 50 tons" of cocaine to the United States, The Miami Herald has learned. [The Miami Herald, PAY PER VIEW, 963 words, $1.00] Report/ French national team goalie tested positive for marijuana Bernard Lama, the French soccer team's top goalie over the past four years, tested positive for marijuana but is still being allowed to play for the time being, French radio reported Thursday. [Associated Press, PREMIUM, 334 words] Legislator promises law enforcers the resources they need to win drug war With warlike words aboard a Coast Guard cutter on the American Caribbean frontier, witnesses Thursday described an island under siege with terrified neighborhoods run by gangsters and the highest murder rate in the United States. [Associated Press, PREMIUM, 677 words]