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...five years since crack first appeared in the U.S., this cheap, powerful cocaine derivative has virtually shredded what was left of the tattered social fabric of the ghetto. The driving force behind the drug epidemic is not just the highly addictive nature of crack; many young hustlers never touch the stuff. They are drawn by the more enticing lure of fast money. "They can make $1,000 a week dealing," says Blair Miller of the Adolescent Dual Diagnosis Unit in Detroit's Samaritan Health Center. "These kids have no other skills. It's very hard to resist." In some cities...
...gang wars have now become material for Hollywood entertainment. Dennis Hopper's Colors, an already controversial film about Los Angeles cops battling dope-dealing thugs, premieres this week. But no movie could convey the tragic impact of gang brutality on the lives of ghetto families. Consider the case of Peggy Graham, the mother of Stacey Childress. Last November another son, Ermond Easley Jr., 16, was fatally shot in the head and chest while standing a few blocks from the Coliseum. In February, Graham's 19-year-old brother Walter Dirks was murdered by two men who were trying to steal...
...hand, we are intensely attached to the Jewish homeland, and rightly so. Our history is a history of persecution, culminating in the Nazi Holocaust. During the Holocaust Jews were led like sheep to slaughter, with no outcry from any nation, and--with the notable exception of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising--with little resistance. This calamity convinced many Jews that a homeland was necessary to insure our survival in a hostile world...
Chagall's was a textbook case of the way some artists receive their subject matter, their grammar of signs, in childhood. He was a child of the Russian ghetto, born in the town of Vitebsk in 1887; his father was a herring packer, his grandfather a cantor and kosher butcher, his uncle an amateur violinist. The imagery of music and shtetl folklore, mingled with the face of his childhood sweetheart (and future wife), Bella Ro- senfeld, furnished the unaltering ground of his work for 80 years, long after the close-knit and weak little societies it represented had been incinerated...
...walk into a classroom, and you see kids in fur coats and $100 gym shoes," says Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano. "They're trying to tell their peer groups that they've succeeded." In some cases, ghetto parents do not discourage young dealers. "They just look the other way," says Juvenile Division Probate Judge Y. Gladys Barsamian. "Some of the kids say they do it because they are the breadwinners in the family...