Pubdate: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 Source: ITAR-TASS (Russia) Copyright: 1999 ITAR-TASS. UZBEK CUSTOMS SEIZE RUSSIA-BOUND HEROIN, OPIUM. TASHKENT, April 16 (Itar-Tass) -- Uzbek customs and the national security service last Thursday detained a courier with some 128 kilograms of opium and 2 kilograms of heroin, the republican Customs Committee told Itar-Tass on Friday. The courier was detained at a customs checkpoint in the Surkhan-Darya region, the southernmost area of Uzbekistan. He said his customer was a Russian citizen living in the Far Eastern town of Ussuriysk. - --- MAP posted-by: Patrick Henry