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lap arranging illicit deliveries of ec
stasy to Manhattan hotels. Investiga
tors seize 300,000 pills worth $7.5
million and make 32 arrests.
A young ultra-Orthodox Jew,
about to be sentenced in Brooklyn,
laments accepting a free flight to
Belgium in exchange for returning
with luggage laden with a designer
drug — again, ecstasy.
Authorities cite these recent cases
and others as proof that New York City
has become the epicenter of a national
boom in illegal imports of ecstasy, the
synthetic “psychedelic amphetamine”
also known as MDMA, or simply “E.”
Seizures of the innocent-looking
tablets—some are embossed with sm i-
ley faces, shamrocks or Playboy bunny
ears — have multiplied like rabbits.
U.S. Customs reports it confiscated 3.5
million pills throughout the country in
fiscal 1999, compared to 750,000 in
1998; the total has already reached 4
million this year.
Agents have discovered ecstasy
stashed in airmailed packages, and in
imported cars and antique furniture.
But mainly, it’s smuggled in luggage
canned by couriers from Europe, w here
pills are produced for less than a dollar
for sale in a youthful and expanding
U.S. market for up to $40 a piece, au
thorities said.
Using undercover officers and co
operating suspects, authorities have
learned that the New York imports
serve a vast Northeast market. Feder
al officials, who asked not to be iden- !
tilled, said New York appeared to be
the largest American gateway force- ^
stasy based on number of pills seized.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) —As marchers began their
a 120-mile trek to get the Confederate flag removed from
atop the Statehouse, one man who has helped make the state
famous warns South Carolina will suffer if the issue lingers.
Novelist Pat Conroy joined the marchers as they left
Charleston on Sunday and plans to rejoin the group when they
walk into Columbia on Thursday.
The novelist known for his stories of South Carolina, such
as “The Prince of Tides” and “The Lords of Discipline,” said
state lawmakers don't like being told what to do.
“South Carolina white boys love to dig their heels in.
There’s no question,” he said. “Some of them will but they are
going to hurt their state in the process.”
Conroy warned failure to resolve the flag controversy
could cost the state the Spoleto Festival U.S.A., which lights
up theaters and recital halls around Charleston each spring.
“The people of South Carolina — white and African-Amer
ican — want the flag to come down,” said Charleston Mayor
Joseph P. Riley Jr. who had the idea for the march. “The purpose
is to say the people of South Carolina are in step, and we want
the Legislature to get in step with the people of South Carolina.”
Sandye Williams of James Island had ancestors who fought
for the South, but said the flag should be moved.
“The whole issue is an embarrassment to the state of South
Carolina and how the rest of the country looks at us — like
we’re a bunch of racist rednecks,” she said.
About 75 marchers, who will walk during daylight hours,
made it about 12 miles to Goose Creek on Sunday night.
Marchers plan to arrive in Columbia for a rally Thursday, when
pro-flag supporters have also scheduled a Statehouse rally.
More than 100 flag supporters waved Confederate flags in
a demonstration along state Highway 176 near Summerv ille,
but the marchers didn’t get that far.
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lawyers would get out there and march likeacommorj
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Sick smokers sue
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MIAMI (AP) — A tobacco in
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lion damage claim by three sick
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one basic question: Should they
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