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By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited by Laurent Belsie

May 25, 1983

A federal grand jury in Columbia, S.C., indicted 42 people on charges of smuggling nearly $800 million in illegal drugs into the US since 1975, prosecutors said. These were the first major indictments coming from President Reagan's task force on drug trafficking.