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...David Jackson talked with members of the Drug Enforcement Administration and other Justice Department officials. Gate and New York Correspondent Janice Simpson interviewed dozens of cocaine users, former users and dealers in an effort to put together a series of profiles. Says Gate of the experience: "Stitching together this grim and sorry story was not easy. Getting these people to discuss their habits, lifestyles and thoughts required the establishment of trust, and that takes time." In one instance, however, there was a reward: one young woman ex-user who confided in Gate later wrote him. "She told me that...
...when Gromyko strode into the ministry's press center with a jaunty step that belied his 73 years. He delivered a 65-minute speech, then answered a dozen questions. Speaking without notes or a prompting device, Gromyko came across as thoughtful, worldly and more humorous than his nickname, "Grim Grom," would suggest. Insisting that British and French missiles must be included in any agreement limiting warheads in Europe, he asked what would happen if they were launched against the U.S.S.R.: "Will a French missile have a stamp on it, 'I am French. I was not to be taken...
...cocaine merely produced a false sense of personal supremacy, and that was that, it would be less menacing. But the "crash" from coke, the letdown when the drug wears off and heady illusions disappear, is grim. To ward off melancholy and the jitters after the supply runs out, many users get drunk or take sedatives like Quaaludes. Or worse. "The drug that works best to cut the crash," says
Halfway up this grim parapet of fate is a scooped-out ledge, a pocket of tenuous survival, where two men lie panting for breath. Taylor (Jeffrey DeMunn) and Harold (Jay Patterson) have reached the summit of K2. At 28,250 ft., this Himalayan peak is the second highest mountain in the world, topped only by Everest. On the way down, Harold lost his footing and suffered a critical leg wound. Only Taylor can descend for help. He is short 120 ft. of much needed rope, having left it at the last stopping place. He climbs the sheer wall three times...
...States, lurk about as the preferred vehicles of death squads that "disappear" people suspected of guerrilla activities or sympathies. She visits the body dumps of El Playon and Puerta del Diablo, where many of the disappeared turn up dead and disfigured. She peeks into the tallies of the weekly "grim-grams" that the U.S. embassy in San Salvador sends to Washington. She discovers that statistics and categories tend to be slippery in this part of the world...