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...This is Len Bias . . . There's no way he can die. Seriously, sir, please come quick." That was Brian Tribble's desperate plea to a 911 operator as his friend, University of Maryland Basketball Star Len Bias, lay dying of cocaine intoxication in his dormitory on June 19. Last week Tribble surrendered to authorities after a grand jury indicted him on narcotics charges that included possession of cocaine with intent to distribute the drug. Tribble, 24, a former Maryland junior-varsity basketball player, is suspected of providing Bias with the coke that killed...
Also indicted were two teammates of Bias' who were with the athlete when he collapsed: Terry Long, 22, and David Gregg, 20. They are accused of cocaine possession and obstruction of justice, a charge stemming from authorities' contention that the players removed drug paraphernalia from the dorm before investigators arrived...
...Americans who could never afford the drug in its more expensive powdered form. One study reported that cocaine has spread to as many as one-third of America's college students. Since 1980, cocaine-related deaths have tripled. The deaths last month of University of Maryland Basketball Player Len Bias, 22, and Cleveland Browns Defensive Back Don Rogers, 23, added to the sense of urgency...
...past five years, the Reagan Justice Department has argued that the civil rights laws offer relief not to large groups of people but only to specific individuals who can prove that they were victims of racial bias. Hiring goals and timetables -- or, as the Reaganauts prefer to call them, quotas -- are a form of "reverse discrimination" against whites that is "immoral," contends Attorney General Edwin Meese...
...last week the Supreme Court held, for the first time ever, that federal judges may set goals and timetables requiring employers guilty of past discrimination to hire or promote specific numbers of minorities, even if the jobs go to people who are not themselves the proven victims of bias. The rulings, written by Justice William Brennan, add up to a strong endorsement of affirmative action...