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...hoping they would include us in the process. Now it's come to the point where we say, 'Well, it's our turn, it's our turn.' " Jesse Jackson said the same thing more vividly after Washington's victory. "Blacks are like the Harlem Globetrotters in the Democratic Party," he told a press conference. "We provide the excitement, the soul, the margin of victory. But all the proprietors in the other room are white. That arrangement must change...
...trade. Says the DEA's Bacon about the Colombian gangs: "They're absolutely ruthless, and they've imported their way of doing business to this country." A fellow DEA official, formerly stationed in New York and now in Dade County, is still astounded by the savagery. "Heroin dealers in Harlem didn't wipe out each other's whole families. They did in one guy on a bar stool," he says. "The Colombians wipe out the whole bar." Says U.S. Attorney Walsh: "Behind that social line of cocaine laid out at a party, there might well have been a murder...
...North Avenue. As I run, I am dreaming. There is something I can remember, somewhere where this whole piece of terror happened to me before. I remember, yes, it happened, running away from two boys who tried to hold me up with a razor blade one night in Harlem. I'm not aware of my legs lifting or my arms pumping or any part of running. I can't see. I am floating through a blur...
...Murphys' careers as world-class salon keepers. Gerald abandoned painting, for which he had considerable talent, and as the Depression deepened, reluctantly took over the family business, Mark Cross, the Fifth Avenue leather goods emporium. Villa America was sold. Sara traveled abroad, did volunteer work at a Harlem day care center and tried unsuccessfully to adopt two young brothers enrolled there...
Ewing is an aggressive player. The most popular black basketball players in the world are the Harlem Globetrotters, grinning minstrels "aping" their game. But the next most popular black basketball players are those without a black presence, whose talent may be intimidating but whose style is unthreatening. Ralph Sampson, the University of Virginia's 7-ft. 4-in. senior center, is more docile and less abused. In fact, fans are given to wondering how much better Sampson would be if he had a rougher temperament. Ewing plays angry. "The way Ewing plays," says Thompson, "he doesn...