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Drugs said state’s second biggest industry
ATLANTA (UPI) - Drug
smuggling has reached
"alarming” proportions in
the state and is now
Georgia’s second largest
industry, officials said
Thursday.
The FBI has estimated
that drug smuggling is a $6
billion business in Georgia,
ranking the state third in the
nation behind Florida and
Texas Officials said almost
600 planes quietly slip the
illegal cargo into the state
each year.
Meanwhile, the lucrative
drug trade is beginning to
attract law enforcement
officials offering protection
for the drug runners.
Based on state figures, the
drug trade is rivaling the
textile industry as the state's
biggest money maker. The
latest figures available show
the textile industry’s for
tunes are about $7 billion a
year Processed food and
kindred products collected
$5.5 billion two years ago.
closely followed by the
production of transportation
equipment which was valued
at $5 billion.
"We aren’t seeing a
decline in it (drug
smuggling),” said Mike
Eason, supervisor of the
drug enforcement unit of the
Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation. "As a matter of
fact, it's been on the increase
for the past few years."
Eason said the GBI has
noticed a marked increase in
drug traffic in the southern
half of the state because it is
predominantly rural and
flat
"It’s alarming if you think
about the amount of money
that changes hands," Eason
said.
Explaining the huge mark
up on marijuana, Eason said
marijuana bought in large
quantities in South America
or Jamaica would cost about
$75 a pound but could be sold
for $500 when it reaches the
United States.
"And we have organized
crime involved, but not the
traditional Cosa Nostra
type," he said. "But they
have to be organized in some
way to sell thousands of
pounds of marijuana
"Guns have also become a
way of life," Eason said.
"The odds are getting more
and more for the potential
for violence because of the
money involved and the
people involved "
Eason said the GBI had
located 500 airports and
landing strips in Georgia last
year and "300 of those were
clandestine. If those are
used only one time, then
that's 300 airplanes and
some are used more than
once. That’s just airplanes
We also have boats coming
in.
"The more emphasis the
federal government puts on
Florida, the more drug
traffic we'll see here,"
Eason said. “I don't know
how to stop it unless we put
more pressure here, and that
will just push it up irlto
Tennessee ”
Medical-ethics commission starts hearings
Mrs. Reagan talks drugs
with Atlanta third graders
ATLANTA (UPI) — First Lady Nancy
Reagan questioned third graders about
marijuana use Thursday and urged them to
cultivate “a very good feeling about
yourselves" to resist temptation from older
drug-using friends. "There is nothing 'cool'
about smoking marijuana," E. Rivers
Elementary School instructor Carolyn
Lichtenberg was saying as Reagan
arrived. "That is what we call peer
pressure.”
The GATE program — which stands for
"Gain Awareness Through Education" —
is conducted by the Junior League in third-
through eighth-grade classes in several
Atlanta schools.
Reagan asked the 25 children, "Has
anybody ever offered you any marijuana?”
Several said they had been exposed to the
drug, although none said they had tried it.
Many of the children told Reagan stories
they had seen on television, especially
examples from anti-drug programs
produced locally in recent months. The
first lady also suggested to the children
anti-drug messages would have more
impact among young people if presented by
rock stars or famous athletes, especially
those who have had bad experiences with
drugs.
One of the children shyly recalled that
“John Belushi died of drugs," and Reagan
nodded and said, “Yes, that’s right.”
A little girl asked Reagan if marijuana
"has any calories in it,” and drew a
sympathetic laugh from the first lady.
"1 really don't know how many calories
are in it,” she said. “I never really thought
about that."
Reagan watched attentively as
Lichtenberg asked the class several
questions, such as whether girls should
play little league baseball, and some of the
squirming youngsters changed their an
swer to conform with the majority Reagan
told the children this was "an example of
peer pressure. That's how easy it is to have
peer pressure on you," she said. “If you
can get for yourselves a very good feeling
about yourselves and a very good picture of
self-esteem and pride about yourself, it’s
going to see you through a great deal of
problems that are going to come to you.”
Reagan’s stop at the school was the first
part of an overnight Atlanta visit. Later in
the evening, she scheduled an appearance
at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting in
Sandy Springs.
Before returning to Washington Friday,
the first lady is to attend a Georgia State
University conference of parents and
educators involved in fighting drug abuse
ATLANTA (UPI) - A
Tennessee mother of two
forced to choose between
food and medical care for
her family will be just one of
several people to testify
Friday before a presidential
commission studying ethical
problems in health care.
The President's Com
mission on Ethics in
Medicine and Research
starts two days of hearings
in Atlanta with testimony
from patients who have had
difficulty in paying for
medical services and doc
tors who provide medical
care for the poor.
The hearings all day
Friday and Saturday
morning will focus on the
“ethical implications of
differences in access to
health care," the com
mission said. The topic will
switch Saturday afternoon to
improved communications
between doctors and
patients.
Commission Chairman
Morris Abram said the
hearings were meant to
present government officials
with some of the moral
issues raised by current
methods of providing health
care to the poor
“Ours is a world of limited
resources and even a society
as rich as ours will not
assign an unlimited share of
Governor hopefuls on lookout
for money, publicity, support
‘Worst’ penitentiary inmates
still segregated from others
REIDSVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
— Georgia State Prison
inmates, described as the
“worst of the worst," are
still being isolated from the
general population after
being moved from the
notorious "M" Building last
month.
U.S. District Judge An
thony Alaimo ordered 124
inmates cleared out of the
"M" Building after he
determined it was unfit for
human habitation, and
prison officials said Thur
sday the transfers were
completed by the March 17
deadline.
"They’re still segregated
in individual cells," prison
spokesman Sara Englade
said Thursday. "They are in
an area to themselves."
The sealed order was
handed down by Alaimo Feb.
18. It was part of a larger
order requiring the state to
improve conditions at the
maximum security facility.
"We did move all the in
mates out of “M” Building
as of March 17,” Englade
said. "We met the deadline."
She had called the inmates
the “worst of the worst”
Wednesday and prison of
ficials said they were housed
in "M" Building because
they were mentally ill or
posed serious disciplinary
problems
However, on Thursday,
Englade described them as
"borderline” cases and said
they posed no danger to
themselves or to other
prisoners.
‘‘If they were
(dangerous), they would be
at Central State Hospital,"
Englade said. "These are
people on the border line of
having problems.”
ATLANTA (UPI) -
Georgia’s gubernatorial
campaign is already in high
gear as six Democrats and
two Republicans crisscross
the state in search of support
from the public, the media
and the money managers.
And since it takes money
to reach the public and the
media, top on the can
didates’ list are the money
managers.
Each of the eight hopefuls
has set a financial goal of $1
million or more to be
reached by the Nov. 4
election. The Democrats will
be spending the bulk of their
money on advertising before
the Aug. 10 primary. Since
the Republicans face less
competition in the primary,
they will spend their money
more evenly between now
and November.
Atlanta attorney Jack
Watson and Congressman
Bo Ginn of Millen lead the
Democratic pack in filling
their war chests.
Watson, former chief of
staff during the Carter
administration, formally
announces his candidacy
this Sunday during a rally at
the Marietta Square.
His brother Rick Watson
Wrightsville rights group
to demonstrate for King
WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga. (UPI) - A civil rights group for
med out of racial turmoil here two years ago will sponsor
demonstrations In three counties Saturday to commemorate
the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. and to protest
racial discrimination.
The Rev. E. J. Wilson, pastor of Neeler Chapel AME church
in Wrightsville and chairman of the Surrounding Counties
Coalition, said demonstrations will begin at noon in
Milledgeville. From there, the group will go to Sandersville
and Wrightsville
Scheduled speakers include Dr. Joseph Lowery, president
of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Ralph
Abernathy and Hosea Williams.
Wilson said the group will be showing its support for
Jimmy Burden, a 37-year-old carnival worker who was
convicted and sentenced to death last month for the August
1974 murders of a Sandersville woman and her three
children.
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reported the campaign has
collected $503,000 so far.
Watson is counting on having
$1 million by the primary
and an additional $1.5
million for the runoff.
Ginn spokesman Charlie
Hayslett said campaign
funds currently total more
than $500,000 out of an an
ticipated $1.5 million or $1.8
million.
The campaign of Public
Service Commissioner Billy
Lovett has collected $250,000
so far, one-third of the pre
primary goal of $750,000.
"After that, it’s going to
take more,” said Lovett
press secretary Buck
Tarpley.
State Rep. Joe Frank
Harris (D-Cartersville), who
kicked off his campaign in
his hometown last weekend,
has a $1.5 million goal before
the primary. Campaign
Treasurer Grace Phillips
declined to divulge how
much has been donated so
far, but she said “it’s
comparable to the other
major candidates. We’ve
done very well."
Norman Underwood is not
revealing exact figures
either Campaign Manager
Glen Davis said the Aug. 10
goal is $1 million.
"We’re over a third
there," Davis said, adding
that calculations for post
primary donations have not
yet been made.
Aides to former Macon
Mayor Buck Melton say the
treasury is filling on
schedule Melton hopes to
collect $1.25 million by the
primary and an additional
$250,000 by the election.
In the Republican corner,
state Sen. Bob Bell and
former 4th District
Congressman Ben Black
burn are running neck and
neck on collections. Both
report contributions to date
at $100,000.
Blackburn, who will of
ficially announce his can
didacy later in the month,
hopes to raise $500,000 by the
primary and another $1
million by the election,
according to campaign
Finance Director Richard
Osborne.
Bell, who formally an
nounces his candidacy April
14 at the old DeKalb County
Courthouse, has set a goal of
$1.5 million by the general
election, according to press
secretary Cindy Glozier
Jernigan.
human goods and services to
medical care," Abram said
"Faced with the necessity of
choices, policy makers must
look not only to political but
moral issues in deciding how
much to allocate."
Abram, a Georgia native
and former president of
Brandeis University, said
health care has never been
considered a guaranteed
right in the United States
"Rather, health services
have been traditionally
left to the decisions of
popularly elected assem
blies and executives,” he
said.
‘‘Today scientific
medicine makes a real
difference in an increased
number of cases and the
difference may be a matter
of life and death," Abram
said. "This may have
elevated health care to a
different ethical plane than
before."
In addition to testimony
from the Tennessee woman.
the commission will also
hear from a Mississippi
couple who found they had
thousands of dollars in
medical bills although they
also had health insurance
and a Georgia couple forced
to borrow money from
relatives to make sure they
could have their baby in a
hospital.
Four Georgia doctors who
provide prenatal and
delivery care to poor women
will discuss "the practices
and attitudes of prac
titioners toward accepting
and caring for patients for
whom they will receive little,
if any, reimbursement,” the
commission said. The
commission was created by
Congress in 1980 and is
authorized to continue its
work through 1982. It has
already completed hearings
and reports on the
"definition" of death and
medical research on
humans.
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