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...face it, none of the candidates is in favor of drugs. Assailing crack and coke is a little like supporting apple pie and motherhood -- except that voters rarely get passionate about apple pie. Usually in a campaign, such unanimity on an issue would make it about as important as the debate over the Law of the Sea Treaty. But not so with drugs, especially not last week in New York...
Gang warfare has bedeviled Los Angeles for more than two decades, but the burgeoning crack trade has lately made such groups as the Crips even more willing to kill for the sake of greater profits. Children of the underclass, weaned on violence and despair, have become bloodthirsty entrepreneurs. Some have made small fortunes marketing the cheap, explosive cocaine derivative -- known as "rock" in L.A. -- while settling business differences with state-of-the-art firearms. Many more have wound up in prison or the graveyard...
Since February, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates has waged an intensive campaign against the crack-dealing street gangs. A task force of 100 has been busting 20 gang members a day and has raided 43 rock houses. But Good Friday made those efforts seem futile. While the carnage on Raymond Avenue took place, 180 police officers stood for roll call at a command center less than a mile away...
...while the Crimson couldn't crack Pelligrino, Providence resorted to some playground tactics to score two runs off Harvard hurler Lora Rowning in the fifth inning...
...Major Fernando Quesada, the conspirators arrived at Noriega's headquarters on Panama City's Avenue A while their quarry was at another military compound. Troops loyal to Noriega had little difficulty in capturing the muddled plotters. At one point Quesada was taken before a company of crack troops to be introduced as their new leader. Instead, a loyal officer barked out, "This man wants to overthrow Comandante Noriega. Arrest him!" When Noriega arrived in his bulletproof Mercedes at 8:15 a.m., the brief rebellion was over. In the aftermath, at least 30 people were taken into custody. Noriega used...