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...doesn't happen to nice people; we know how to keep these things under control. But it does, and we don't." Helping make that point with horrifying realism, New York Correspondent James Wilde went with a cash-laden couple on a Sunday drug-buying trip to "Alphabet Town" on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Wilde's report accompanies the cover story...
...Captain steers his sleek black '83 Cadillac into the neighborhood known as Alphabet Town on Manhattan's Lower East Side. This menacing tangle of burned-out buildings, clammy tenements and garbage-strewn vacant lots is one of the country's most notorious drug marketplaces. Dealers crowd the blighted 15-by four-block "town" 24 hours a day, dispensing cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, angel dust and an array of other drugs. The Captain, in his 40s, is a white, affluent tradesman from Brooklyn. He got his nickname because he once owned a yacht. He and his girlfriend, a pink...
...bust you and being busted is better than being dead." Last year the Captain was shot five times in the chest by a man who wanted the small bag of heroin that he had just bought. The Captain spent two weeks in the hospital, but soon came back to Alphabet Town. He's still looking for the "crazy dude" who shot...
Police say there were 40 drug-related murders in the area in 1982, and there are stabbings and shootings almost daily. Appalled and scared by the rampant drug trade, the law-abiding citizens of Alphabet Town three weeks ago marched in protest to Mayor Ed Koch's apartment in nearby Greenwich Village. Police officials grumble that only an air strike could clean it up. Because of budget cuts, the complement of 300 officers in the Ninth Precinct, which patrols the area, has shrunk...
...linguistics graduate students gather in the departmental library for one of the two graduate seminars in which Bergvall is currently enrolled--phonetics. The course is designed to give the department's grad students an ear for using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), a system including English and Greek symbols which can represent any of the approximately 100 sounds in human speech...