Word: coke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...growing number of gangs are going national, with black gangs like Los Angeles' Crips and Chicago's Disciples establishing franchises in cities from Seattle to Shreveport, La. "They're all over," says Detective Robert Jackson of the Los Angeles police department gang detail. "We've got a glut of coke here in Los Angeles, and the price is down. They can make three times as much money in Phoenix or Denver." Phoenix has suffered seven gang-related murders this year. In Denver the first Crips were detected in 1984; last March police there busted a crack house run by another...
Minkow's attorney Arthur Barens dismissed the allegations as preposterous: "Barry does not know anyone who is a coke dealer, and he knows nothing about organized crime." In an interview published in a local paper, Minkow went further, suggesting that he was being unjustly singled out because of his ^ notoriety. Said he: "They're trying to lay it on the star...
Rarest of all are the deals in which the companies have sold to blacks. Coca-Cola was the first American firm to do so; in March 8,500 of its wholesalers and retailers, 60% of whom are nonwhite, bought one-third of Coke's South African subsidiary. Ford's proposed sell-off could be another such case. The carmaker is negotiating with its employees to put its interests into a trust that represents the company's 4,500 workers, 70% of whom are black...
Some U.S. firms have tried to ease the impact of divestiture by making farewell investments in social programs. Coke pledged to spend $10 million during the next five years to fund a foundation to assist education and development among South Africa's "disadvantaged." IBM left $10 million for a literacy program to aid 37,000 black schoolchildren. Many companies that divested their South African holdings had been setting aside some of their earnings for social services, but some of their successors have refused to take on those commitments...
...mayor, who contends that he has "never even seen cocaine except in the movies," rejected suggestions by his lawyer, Griffin Bell, Carter's former Attorney General, that he plead the Fifth Amendment lest the grand jury prove a political trap. Young and Bond, who also denied using coke, are prominent black Democrats, and they are eager to clear up the matter well before their party holds its national convention in Atlanta next year...