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...Hughie saw me as a sort of dream guy...I'll bet he lived a kind of double life...when a sucker cries for more you're a dope not to give him more." Although he's now broke because he donated money for the clerk's funeral, he maintains his sense of humor. "It sure was worth it to give Hughie a big send...

Author: By Andred Faxtenberg, | Title: Triple Take | 4/13/1983 | See Source »

...corner any more," says Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Markley in Chicago. "We're after the big financiers, because they have the direct routes to the main traffickers." Agrees U.S. Attorney Marcus: "The money trail can lead you to the top. A lot of major dealers do not touch the dope, but they do touch the money. It may be easier to catch them on the money than the dope." Criminal lawyers, naturally, are skeptical, even contemptuous. "They always say they are going after the financial side," says Houston Attorney Charles Szekely, "but they don't. They find anybody they think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crashing on Cocaine | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...breaks and at lunch, picking up four to eight nickel [$5] bags at a time," he says. "If it was payday, I could run through my whole check [$515]." Joey, now in a drug-abuse treatment program, says he is "trying to find a place where there is no dope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crashing on Cocaine | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...white, affluent tradesman from Brooklyn. He got his nickname because he once owned a yacht. He and his girlfriend, a pink-sugar blond he calls Snowdrop, come into this mostly Hispanic neighborhood every Sunday to buy cocaine ("Big C") and heroin ("Big D," for dope). They like to shoot up with a mixture of the two, a sometimes deadly combination known as speedball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Cocaine's Grip: Get Your 'Lucky Seven' Here | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

Fourth and Avenue D is constantly crowded with people waiting to score: blacks, Hispanics and middle-class whites. Clean-cut young men in tweed jackets and attractive young women in designer jeans listen intently to the dealers' pitches. "Get your Lucky Seven here-best dope in town." "Colt .45 is Jesus bread." "Poison is mellow today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Cocaine's Grip: Get Your 'Lucky Seven' Here | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

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