A haul of 81 bibles with heroin packed into their bindings was made by police here tonight. Authorities said the find, worth more than $10,000, was linked with the international narcotic ringbelieved uncovered by the recent arrest in Paris of Isak Leifer, suspected of smuggling drugs from France to New York and Jerusalem.
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