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SENTENCED. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 30, arrested last September for possessing two-tenths of a gram of heroin; to two years of probation, continued drug treatments and 1,500 hours of community service; in Rapid City, S. Dak. The suspended sentence, Circuit Judge Marshall Young told Kennedy, was standard for such a first offense and had "nothing to do with your name...
WXPN's governing board approved the expenditure, saying the new studio would give the station a modern facility. Governing Board Chairman James Davis cited money saved on future repair equipment as justification for the gram. "Hopefully, these savings amount to the amount spent," he said...
Local police officials, however, suspected a drug overdose and obtained a search warrant to look through Kennedy's bags. They found slightly less than one gram of heroin. Four days later, Pennington County State's Attorney Rod Lefholz ordered the arrest of Bobby Kennedy for possession of heroin, a felony carrying a maximum penalty of two years in jail and a $2,000 fine. Kennedy is expected to be arraigned in Rapid City some time in the next two weeks...
Officials fear that as the powder's retail worth falls, new, less affluent buyers will become regular customers. The going price per gram is $75 to $100; the glut could cut that to $50 or even $25. Coke is reaching the streets in a purer, stronger form. All this worries Dr. Charles Wetli, Dade County's deputy chief medical examiner: "If the price drops and there is an increase in purity," he warns, "you're going to have a lot more deaths from snorting and free-basing...
...Senator from New York; for a new experimental treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the progressive neuromuscular disorder also known as Lou Gehrig's disease; at Good Samaritan Hospital; in Los Angeles. Javits will be injected with extremely high doses of thyrotropin releasing hormone, an expensive ($2,400 per gram) drug that has produced dramatic but short-term improvements in ALS victims...