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Article: Sex, drugs and radicals. (International League Against Prohibition formed in Italy to fight prohibition of drugs)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 8, 1989
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Italy Sex, drugs and Radicals
MR RALPH SALERNO, bilingual in New York American and his ancestral southern Italian dialect, could walk straight into performance as a Godfather. In fact, as head of the New York city organised crime unit, he arrested many of the heroin mafiosi who infested the town 30 years ago. Now he says that arresting drug barons is a waste of time, since their cousins, godsons or even more horrible rivals will at once fill the vacancy. Mr Wesley Pomeroy also believes that the war against drugs is being lost. He should know: he set up the police unit which, fictionalised, rushes around the small screen under the name "Miami Vice".
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