The World - News from April 2, 1985

U.S. officials, opening a conference on narcotics in East Asia, called for greater international cooperation to curb surging heroin trade in the region. Officials from U.S. embassies throughout the area were in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for three days of talks on drugs and their impact on terrorism and insurgencies. “The grower-to-user narcotics chain must be broken,” John Monjo, deputy assistant secretary of state, said, urging that pressure be applied “at all points in the chain.”