Word: dealers
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...Washton, director of research for the National Cocaine Hotline: "Last May I had never heard of crack. Today we get nearly 700 to 900 calls a day from people having problems with the drug." Crack is more addictive than any other form of cocaine, says Washton. "It's the dealer's dream and the user's nightmare...
...ghettos, the economics of crack has created a lucrative cottage industry. Organized crime has not yet taken over the trade, police believe. Instead, a small-time dealer in Los Angeles can buy an ounce of cocaine for $1,000 to $1,500. Since each ounce contains 28 grams and each gram can produce up to six rocks that he can sell for as much as $25 each, the dealer can realize a profit of around...
...room behind his father's grocery store. Cuomo has turned his early life into a sepia-tinted parable of a polyglot neighborhood of hard work and love. He can spin out stories about everyone on the old block: Lanzone, the baker; Kaye, the Jewish tailor; Kelly, the Irish scrap dealer...
...title refers not to Castro's island but to an illiterate Hispanic drug dealer (De Niro) and his much cuddled, much cuffed adolescent son Teddy (Ralph Macchio, star of the movie The Karate Kid). Also on the scene are the father's oafish partner in crime (Burt Young, an Oscar nominee for Rocky) and assorted street-corner toughs, including a junkie playwright who has befriended and apparently seduced the boy, a would-be writer. For De Niro fans, the role of Cuba evokes what he does best in film: veering unnervingly between caressing affection and blind rage. Small wonder that...
Over the years, either the United States or the Soviet Union has served as the No. 1 arms dealer to the Third World. But last year, according to a newly released report by the U.S. Congressional Research Service, both super- powers were edged out by Western Europe...