European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday october 9, 1977 heroin Scales Berlin Wall with ease Berlin a West Berlin the shop worn capitalist showplace 130 Miles inside East Germany has become one of Europe s cheapest and deadliest heroin markets. Traffic that once passed on through West Germany to the United states now stops Here. Police estimate that 5,000 of the 2 million West berliners one in every 400 a Waist fit for a Queen is a heroin addict. The total population is declining. The Junkie population is growing. This year s drug death toll is now at 64, 10 More than in All of last year. The 54 dead in 1976 matched the toll in All of France that year and was nearly a fifth of the 283 dead in the other 10 West German states. East West politics keeps heroin Chan Nels open through the Berlin Wall. Western Europe is thought to get much of its heroin from Southeast Asia s Golden Triangle the poppy growing area where the Borders of Burma Laos and Thailand meet. Berlin s Supply is thought to come through the near East. Police say much of it is brought in by foreign couriers flying inter lug the East Victoria s drawers sold for $200 London a the victorians so prudish they even covered the legs of their chairs and pianos would have been shocked a pair of their beloved Queen s drawers was sold for $280 at a London auction Friday. The underwear the victorians always called this particular article of women s clothing unmentionables was auctioned by Bonham s of knights Ridge and were bought by mrs. Edone Boughton Adderley who lives in nearby Chelsea. I bought them As rather a touching relic of Queen Victoria said Boughton Adderley 57. It would be rather undignified to have her drawers hanging on a Wall so i shall take them Home display them to my friends and then wrap them in tissue the pin tucked knee length drawer by to flirt Tow Sfa of Ftp wifi. Royal unmentionables1 mrs. Edone Boughton Adderley of longed to Queen Victoria. She Bough London has a laugh Over the 46-Inch the monogrammed unmentionables Waist pair of drawers that once be for $200 at an auction. A were made of voluminous White Linen embroidered with the Royal Monogram and had a Waist measuring 46 inches this suggests they were part of the Royal under Wear toward the end of Queen Victoria s 81 year life. In her youth she was distinguished by her tiny Waist. Boughton Adderley who has a 26-Inch Waist added i May even Wear them myself. I am sure they will pull two other lots of clothing that belonged to Queen Victoria who died in 1901, also brought High prices at Friday s West end auction. A Black silk skirt bodice a Combina Tion of skirt and stiff bodice was bought on behalf of Madame Tussaud a the famous London Wax museum for $60 and will be put on exhibition. Two pairs of silk stockings and three handkerchiefs All with the Royal cipher were bought for $175 by 30-year-old Peter King of Hamburg Germany who said he would probably resell them but might keep a pair of the stockings. I 11 called danger for some women London up women Over 35 who take contraceptive pills and smoke run a higher risk of death from heart disease according to two studies reported Friday in the lancet medical journal. The report was accompanied by a joint statement from the presidents of the Royal College of obstetricians and gynaecologists and the Royal College of general practitioners warning against immediate panic. Both studies carried out independently advised women over_35 to consider switch ing to some other Means of contraception. Any woman Over 30 who has been taking Oral contraception for More than five years and also smokes was likewise urged to reconsider. The warning did not apply to women under 30 taking contraceptive pills but they were advised to Stop smoking because it magnifies the Side effects of Oral contraception. The study by the practitioners College involved 46,000 women since 1968. Half of them were using Oral contraception and it showed that deaths due to circulatory Dis ease like thrombosis were almost five times higher than among women not taking the Pill 24 deaths to five. Sir John Dewhurst president7 of the obstetricians College urged older women in the High risk groups not to Stop taking the Pill immediately. They should discuss things with their doctors Over the next couple of months he said otherwise a sudden Rise in unwanted pregnancies might both colleges said both surveys Indi Cate that women who use the Pill run an appreciably higher risk of circulatory diseases than those who do not. The risk occurs mainly in older women especially if they smoke and probably if they have used the Pill continually for five years or German airline from Istanbul to East Berlin. Three fourths of the foreign deliveryman arrested have been turks police in East Berlin the capital of what diplomats say is a virtually drug free country couriers have their Choice of Low risk routes into West Berlin the various Crossings through the Wall or the a Bahn elevated Railroad into the heart of downtown West Germany although it contends West Berlin is a separate political entity alongside its own capital City checks the Borders primarily for escaping East Ger mans Money and consumer goods. Western officials leave the entrances to the City virtually uncontrolled supporting the Western political theory that East and West Berlin Are one City. West Berlin police have had Little Suc Cess in pinning Down the suppliers inside the City. We were pulling in Little people on the theory that As you pulled on the rope you d get bigger and bigger people says Crimi Nal director Heinz Koernke. But at the Middle level we Stop getting any the frightening thing about it is How fast it came up says one of the foreign narcotics officials watching the Berlin situation. This is a City where no one died in ,1972." you re talking about people now coming from Munich Aachen and Cologne to Berlin where they previously went to Amsterdam says another expert. Police say heroin Here costs 200 to 250 Marks about $87 to $108 a Gram Only a third or a fourth of the Price in West Ger Many. Bottom level dealers buy Basic Stock piles of three Grams keep half for them selves and sell the rest in one twelfth Gram Street cuts of half heroin half sugar for 40 Marks about $15. We re trying to drive up the Price through enforcement Oemke said. But the More you increase the Price the More you increase the risk of crime committed for at least three fairly open trading places have developed around downtown West Berlin. One of the most notorious is a subway station directly beneath the tourist cafes and sex movies of the surf Kirsten Damm. We make periodic raids just to let them know the police Are still around said Oemke but things have a Way of falling to the ground when the police appear and you re left with food and narcotics experts say they Are concerned about the ready availability of heroin in Berlin the Speed with which the Market has developed and the reappear Ance of turks in the business. Much turkish heroin found its Way to the United states before poppy crops were banned in 1973. Experts say the predominance of turkish couriers does not necessarily mean the heroin they carry is produced in Turkey but they say the Pat Tern is interesting. The West Berlin government is trying to pull together a major anti heroin program of Law enforcement methadone clinics education and other social aids. Much of the Effort is still untested but the City so far is getting High Marks for trying. Berlin is the first major City to face up to the problem says one foreign expert. News ban continues in tin Fortune heiress kidnapping Geneva a Geneva police continued to impose a total news Black out on the abduction monday of five year old Grazier la Ortiz grand Niece of bolivian tin tycoon Antenor Patino. The Black out is in response to an Appeal on Swiss television monday night by the girl s father 50-year old Georges Ortiz who urged police not to intervene until Graziella had been returned. Graziella was driven off screaming. No news of her whereabouts or of the Kidnap pers demands has since been issued
