GOING INTERNATIONAL
In 1971 while I was getting ready to come to Australia, flying to Australia from Canada and settling in to a teaching job in a primary school in Whyalla South Australia, The Godfather was filmed.1 By 1971 a vast mafia-connected international heroin trafficking network was developing.2 The narrative base in The Godfather spanned the years 1945 to 1955 during the post WW2 resurgence of the Mafia. In 1971 another mafia-related film, The French Connection, the first movie in the R-rated cop genre to win an academy award, took cop movies into a grittier, faster and more violent direction. The storyline in The French Connection was the world痴 largest narcotics seizure in 1962, the year I began my pioneering for the Canadian Baha段 community. This film was released in October 1971, three months after I arrived in Australia from Canada as an international pioneer.
During those years in the history of the Mafia, indeed from 1945 to 1979, I grew from early childhood to the late years of early adulthood, that is, from the age of one to thirty-five. In those years I knew little to nothing of the Mafia and took little interest in it when it was mentioned in the media. Even the FBI took little interest in the mafia until November 1957 or such is one theory. Illegal heroin involving the Corsican mafia was first discovered in 1937 in France right at the start of the Baha段 Seven Year Plan, an international pioneering venture of significant magnitude but largely unknown in popular or academic culture. -Ron Price with thanks to 1Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, 25 March 2008; and 2 A.W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin in South-East Asia, 1972.
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