Armed Forces: A Half-Won War

"Things go better with coke"

For the past two years, the U.S. Army and the West German government have cooperated in a campaign against a tide of hard-drug use that has threatened to engulf both German youth and U.S. military personnel. In 1980 West German police seized a record 263 kilograms of heroin in raids across the country. Last year a sweep of one 15,000-strong U.S. military installation near Frankfurt resulted in the capture of $4 million worth of mostly marijuana and hashish and arrest of 146 U.S. soldiers. Another operation in northwest Germany netted 44 drug offenders, 18 of...

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