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...Harlem, angry residents paint large red X's on crack dealers' doors and put stuffed animals in the windows of abandoned buildings as a symbolic gesture to reclaim them from drug users. In New Mexico, two children turn in their parents to the police for marijuana possession, just as a California girl did her coke-using parents a week earlier. In Washington, the President of the U.S., the Vice President and most of the White House staff patriotically provide urine samples so that it can be seen if they have within the past few days consumed any heroin, cocaine, marijuana...
...something," they realize that a lawmaker who does nothing about drugs on the eve of an election puts himself at political risk. "If our country was invaded by a foreign force, the Administration would not be raising the question of Gramm-Rudman," says Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel of Harlem. This week the House will take up a $2 billion-to-$3 billion antidrug package that will fund every weapon in the war on drugs, from more radar balloons for the border patrol to more drug-treatment centers in the ghetto...
...substantial increase in crime this year might be attributed to the crack epidemic. In May of this year cocaine arrests were up 68% over the figures for May 1985, while arrests for heroin, marijuana and other drugs had dropped. Crack has all but consumed parts of neighborhoods such as Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant and the South Bronx that are primarily made up of poor blacks. Says the Rev. Wendell Foster, a Bronx city councilman: "It's a new form of genocide...
...York's United Black Church Appeal launched a valiant campaign against the drug. Some 200 ministers, celebrities and antidrug activists participated in street-corner rallies and 24-hour vigils in areas where crack is sold. "The house is on fire," said Actor Ossie Davis at a rally in Harlem. "Those of us who care have to ring the alarm bell." While calling for greater community action, organizers of the campaign mocked the Federal Government's efforts to stop drug trafficking, including the raids in Bolivia. "I'll never understand why, if they're serious about a drug bust, they decide...
Back in New York, shortly after the rallies and speeches ended, the crack hustlers were out again, casually hawking their wares. "They should have been here long ago," said a disillusioned Harlem resident of the antidrug crusaders. "It's too late...