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...York City, the sleazy dealers peddling dope in Manhattan's Washington Heights call it "crack." In the south central part of Los Angeles, the desperate addicts chasing an ever more elusive high know it as "rock." On both coasts, and in Chicago, Detroit and other cities throughout the U.S., the drug by either name is an inexpensive yet highly potent, highly addictive form of cocaine that is rapidly becoming a scourge. Pushers sell pellet-size "rocks" in tiny plastic vials for as little as $10. Smoked rather than snorted, a single hit of crack provides an intense, wrenching rush...
...minutes the flash high is followed by a crashing low that can leave a user craving another hit. But that evanescent electric jolt, priced so that almost anyone can afford it, has made crack the drug of the moment. The National Cocaine Hotline (1-800-COCAINE) estimates that 1 million Americans in 25 states around the country have tried crack. From January through April, while New York City police seizures of marijuana fell off 92% from the year before and heroin seizures fell off 88%, cocaine seizures rose 41%. Crack busts already constitute 55% of all cocaine arrests...
...Jones industrial average. Traders are wondering who might be the investigators' next target. Says one broker: "Everybody has done insider trading at one time or another." Observes a senior investment banker: "People used to joke around about insider trading. Now it's in extremely bad taste to crack such jokes." These days, needless to say, Dennis Levine and those who swapped secrets with him are not laughing...
...data bank. It has persuaded the state boards to report new disciplinary actions swiftly, so that the information can be promptly entered into the system. This summer individual boards will begin hooking into the system, enabling them to check a doctor's record in a matter of minutes and crack down on would-be border skippers. The data will also be made available to the military medical system and hospitals. Says Galusha: "We've gone from the turkey quill and laborious manual searches to state of the art in the past two years. The net is tightening...
...Minister Rajiv Gandhi: "We will not allow the voice of fanaticism to be raised and will make every effort to stop such fanatics from disintegrating the nation." The operation marked a political victory for Gandhi, who negotiated a pact with moderate Sikhs in July 1985 and urged them to crack down on their militant brethren...