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About the only thing crack addicts seem to fear is the severe depression that follows a cocaine-induced high. After repeated use of the drug, the usual cure -- more crack -- stops working. Now, drug experts warn, an increasing number of cocaine abusers are using heroin to ease the horror of the postcrack...
Since Charles Stuart's suicide, the media has come under fire for originally assuming that a Black man, not Charles Stuart, was the one who murdered Carol Stuart. But several participants said they had used all their resources to try to crack the case...
...case grew out of attempts by the Metropolitan Transit Authority to crack down on panhandling in New York City subway cars and stations, but the ruling has nationwide implications. Seeking to stem the proliferation of needy and homeless in a system that serves 1 billion passengers a year, the MTA last October launched its so-called Operation Enforcement. Within weeks, two homeless panhandlers -- Papa Joe Walley, 50, and William Young Jr., 40 -- complained to the Legal Action Center for the Homeless that they were being harassed by the police while begging in the subway. The center filed a class action...
...unforgiving 770-word format. Even though in a parade of predictions in late 1988 he called the fall of the Berlin Wall, this Pulitzer-prizewinning pundit also flatly asserted last March that the Soviet Union would never brook Eastern Europe's attempts at independence. "Depend on Mr. Gorbachev to crack down as Mr. Stalin would have, fraternally rolling in the tanks and shooting the dissenters," he wrote. "The present Kremlin leader was not chosen to preside over the dissolution of the Soviet empire...
...legalization of black unions, abolition of the internal pass laws, legalization of some nonracial neighborhoods. These developments, more than sanctions, have helped change white thinking. And if broad new sanctions were to cut deeply into the South African economy, the government's probable response would be to abandon reform, crack down on black protest and make certain that whites got their slice of the shrinking pie first...