Smuggling of Narcotics Among
Chief Mid-East Trouble Sources
Cairo - (CPD - Smuggling of
narcotics-mainly hashish and
opium - provides the Middle
East with fewer headlines but
almost as many troubles as
the area"s hodgepodge of po
litical rivalries.
And today, as in ancient
times, one of the main car
riers of the smuggled goods
is' the legendary "ship of the
desert," the camel.
Pitched battles on the des
ert between fast-striking pa
trolmen of the Camel Corps
and Bedouin smugglers are a
frequent occurrence in Egypt.
But the smugglers are shrewd
and know many tricks, and
the traffic continues on an
amazing scale. ,
One trick of the desert
smugglers is to feed bars of
the narcotics to camels in
waterproof sacks. When the
shipment reaches its destina
tion, the animals are slaugh
tered and the narcotics re
covered. Sliffest Penalties
Although the Egyptian nar
cotics law tarries probably
TV Cartoon Characters
Under Close Censorship
Bv VERNON SCOTT
VPI Hollywood Correspondent
Hollywood-dTD-Real actors
can swear, get drunk, beat
women and commit murder
before the TV -cameras, but
cartoon characters innocent
little rabbits, birds and dogs
are the most strictly cen
sored performers in history.
Walter Lantz, creator of
Woody Woodpecker and a
dozen other cartoon charac
ters, has daily battles with the
blue pencil boys to prevent
Woody from corrupting the
morals of youthful t e 1 e
viewers. "It's getting worse every
year," says the mild-mannered
cartoonist. "Violence is
the basis of cartoon humor,
now they're cutting it out.
Harris Blames
Only Adams
: Washington-IUPD-Rep. Oren
Harris said Tuesday that
Sherman Adams and "no one
else is to blame" for the dif
ficulties which prompted him
to resign as the President's top
assistant.
The Arkansas Democrat re
jected Adam's complaint that
the House influence - investi
gating subcommittee, which
Harris heads, had participated
in a "campaign of vilification"
against Adams.
It was the House group
which first publicized Adams'
gift-exchanging relations with
New England industrialist
Bernard Goldfine. In his res
ignation speech Monday'night
Adams accused the subcom
mittee of airing "irresponsible
testimony."
The subcommittee "is not
responsible for Mr. Adams'
difficulty," Harris told a news
conference. "He brought it on
himself. He has no one else to
blame, however good his in
tentions were."
watches our Woody show
tunes in on 'Wyatt Earp' and
other westerns and horror
shows. The heroes can drink
redeye whiskey, but Woody
isn't allowed to drink cider.
Dialects Censored
"And that's not all. We
can't show a cow's udders. All
dialects are censored and
that old standby, the navel,
is taboo.
"Most of the films on our
show were seen in theaters
years ago. But they are strict-.
ly censored for TV
"For instance, one of our
six-minute cartoons depicted
a grasshopper chewing tobac
co and spitting. Network cen
sors said it was bad for kids,
so we were forced to hack out
six scenes showing the spit
ting grasshopper.
"In other shows characters
spit in one another's faces."
Lanta was chastized by tje
State Department for show
ing Mexican cartoon charac
ters without shoes.
"I painted their feet black
and called 'em shoes and we
managed to get by," he
grinned.
Sexy Scenes Banned
"There is no written code
for cartoon censorship, so you
can never tell what will up
set the censors. It' all right
for Woody to kiss another
woodpecker, but he's not al
lowed ' to kiss a girl. Sexy
scenes are absolutely out,
naturally.
"When we played an old
rerun of "Three Blind Mice"
we had to leave out dialogue
about the mice being blind.
Another time we had to de
lete a scene showing hospital
attendants in white coats."
Lantz argues that children
watch "adult" shows on TV
regularly, including- programs
in which glamour girls appear
wearing next to nothing.
"We aren't allowed to
show a cartoon character in
a bare midriff costume," he
laughed, "navel or no navel."
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the stiffest penalties in the
world, Egypt is the biggest
victim of the traffic in the
Mideast, with an estimated
600,000 addicts. Peddlers face
up to life imprisonment, and
fines run to $30,000. Addicts
are treated only slightly less
leniently, with prison terms
ranging up to 15 years.
Despite the risks for sellers
and users alike, it is said that
in the illegal narcotics trade,
"all roads lead to Egypt."
. According to the Egyptian
director of the Arab League's
permanent anti-narcotics bu
reau, Maj. Gen. Abdel Aziz
Safwat, Turkey, Lebanon,
Syria and Israel contribute
either as sources or as "chan
nels" for the smuggling of
narcotics to Egypt.
One-Fifth Seized
Government records show
that 11,406 kilograms (25,093
pounds) of hashish were
seized in Egypt in 1957. But,
as Safwat said, only one-fifth
of the total amount of nar
cotics smuggled into Egypt
was seized.
Safwat estimates that drug
addicts in Egypt spent $41,
000,000 on hashish alone last
year.
The big wheels operating
this baleful racket in the land
of the Nile are the smugglers
with international contacts,
and the traffickers who con
trol the local marketing of
the narcotics. The dirty work
is done by the carriers of the
drugs across the borders to
the interior, and by the re
tailers and peddlers.
An impressive array of gov
ernment forces is used in
Egypt in the anti-narcotics
fight. Operating all over the
country, , and cooperating
whenever necessary are the
Coast Guard, the Camel Corps
and the Cairo-based Anti-Narcotics
Squad.
Narcotics are smuggled into
the country from countless
points along Egypt's Red Sea
and Mediterranean coasts and
in the Sinai Peninsula.
Camel Chief Means
Whether the narcotics are
brought overland or by sea,
the camel is the preferred
means of transporting the
loads to the cities across the
vast desert stretches separat
ing the clendestine entry
points from the Nile Valley.
For days, sometimes, Gov
ernment troops chase smug
glers across sand dunes and
flats. But the fierce engage
ment with dead and wound
ed on both sides, do not al
ways result in the capture of
the entire party of smugglers.
As likely as not, a reduced
party of the smugglers suc
ceeds in getting away. The
desert is vast and easy to lose
yourself in.
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No Definite Goal
By Science in Study
Of Depths of Ocean
Lisbon (LTD While some
scientists have spent this In
ternational Geophysical Year
hurling satellites into . space,
other dedicated men have
been sweating out the I.G.Y.
looking at the bottom of the
deep blue sea.
What do they hope to find
there This is a question that
the men most concerned -scientists
aboard the 1,000-ton
British Royal Research Ship
Discovery II-hesitate to an
swer directly.
"Any chance of unearthing
vast new reserves of metals
down, there?" a reporter
asked M. N. Hill, geologist of
Cambridge university, who is
with the shiD making a sur
vey off the Portuguese coast.
"We are working in water
much too deep for practical
purposes like that," Hill an
swered. "But one day perhaps
science will be able to exploit
such underwater ores?" the
newsman persisted.
"I would rather not go into
that," Hill said.
Lost Continent? -
Do they expect to find the
lost continent of Atlantis?
Hill and his men are not
dreamers. But they know that
the Azores are merely the
tops of mighty underwater
mountains, and that the ocean
bed of the Atlantic is studded
with other mountain chains.
"We have found some that
are 10,000 and 12,000 " feet
high," Hill said. "They are
all deep and well below the
surface. We noted some about
120 miles northwest from
Oporto that might have once
formed part of a protruding
land mass."
The British scientists get
their clues from rocks and
mud and slime they haul up
from the sea bottom in tubes
rammed 21 feet into the sea
mud, from magnetic surveys
and from the study of temper
atures at the sea bottom.
They have a cable rig 30,
000 feet in length, plus mod
ern sounding devices, and one
of their number, Dr. A. S.
Laughton, formerly of Cam
bridge, is a specialist in under
water photography. His flash
light shots expose the secrets
of the depths.
"We think you can learn
about the bottom of the sea
without going down in a
bathyscope," Hill said.
Business in Infancy
He said the business of
charting the ocean bed is in
its infancy-a science that in
terested nobody until World
War II.
J. C. Swallow of the Na
tional Institute of Oceano
graphy is aboard Discovery
II studying currents.
He has an igenious new
method for determining the
flow of deep currents - an
apparatus is lowered to a set
depth and then floats with
the current emitting radio
signals which operators in the
ship pick up, enabling the
course of the appartus to be
checked. "
Swallow has established
that in some places the vast
deep sea water mass 15,000
feet below the surface some
times moves as much as three
miles in a day, but usually
less.
There seems to be no set
pattern for its movement. It
varies from place to place 'in
both speed and direction and(,
measurements made in the
same area several weeks apart
show marked changes.'
No Immediate Application
Ask Swallow what practi
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has and he answers:
"None immediately. It
keeps indirectly to an under
standing of fishery problems
because the deep waters are
rich in the nutrium salts on
which fish depend. It also
helps perhaps to further our
understanding of climatic con
ditions because of the influ
ence of water on air tempera
tures." Why then a lifetime of dedi
cation to the study of water
on the ocean floor?
"Well," said Swallow," we
scientists 1 i k e to know as
much about the world as pos
sible and one never knows
what one is going to stumble
across next."
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Many a home in the South
west and South has a Bird of
Paradise bush in its yard, and
doubtless the owners, like Ce
cil L. Willeke, of Phoenix,
Ariz., have found it rather
noisy when their pods pop.
And doubtless too most of
them find it as beautiful as
Willeke who describes its
flowers as "looking like a pea
cock.
That is another of the many
names for the plant, the com
monest being the poinciana
after M. de Poinci, a governor
of the Antilles in the mid
1600s and a man with a great
interest in botany.
But though the plant is
common in the West Indies
where it got its most widely
known names, it is actually an
invader of the Western Hemi
sphere. Its place of origin was
possibly the lost continent of
Mascarene, the surviving
part of which are the islands
of Madagascar, Mauritius, Re
union and a few others. In any
case, it is native to those is
lands, western India and parts
of East Africa.
While today it is regarded
as an ornamental, in Gov. de
Poinci's time it was consider
ed important for other rea
sons.
Its leaves and flowers were
thought to have important
medical properties. They were
extensively used in the treat
ment of fevers, a a purgative,
and externally, in the form of
poultices, for the treatment of
wounds.
Other Uses Found
Still other uses were found
for it. Those were the days
when people used quill Dens
and had to make their own
ink, and it was soon discov
ered that a very effective ink
could be made from the poin
ciana's pods. It was learned
that a fine yellow dye could
be made by combining its
juices with aluminum or iron
salts.
As to the noisy bursting of
the pod when the seeds are
shot out for several feet, that
is the way in which the plant
re-seeds itself. By throwing
out its seeds, the poinciana
seeks to extend its territory in
the perennial struggle for sur
vival against other plants.
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