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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though he often treated his body as a laboratory for exotic pharmacological experiments, Garcia was admired--with sensible reservations--by the nation's most famous noninhaler, Bill Clinton. In an MTV interview last week the President called him "a great talent." Referring to Garcia's heroin addiction, Clinton added, "He also had a terrible problem that was a legacy of the life he lived and the demons he dealt with . You don't have to have a destructive life-style to be a genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JERRY GARCIA: THE TRIP ENDS | 8/21/1995 | See Source »

...Nigerian despot of the moment, General Ibrahim Babangida, as "one of the great leader-servants of the modern world in our time." This was the same Babangida who had ruthlessly suppressed political opponents, closed down independent newspapers and allowed his country to become a major transshipment point for heroin and other illegal drugs to which millions of U.S. citizens are addicted. Could Jackson's effusion have had anything to do with the help Babangida had given him over the years--for example, by providing a Nigerian Airways jet for a tour of southern Africa or by encouraging his cronies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHEN BLACKS PERSECUTE BLACKS | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

...mention prosperity. DEA officials estimate that the Rodriguez brothers oversee 80% of the cocaine trafficking in the world, with profits of about $7 billion last year, and say that they have also begun to make deep inroads into the heroin market, previously dominated by Southeast Asian drug lords. Although Miguel remains at large, the Colombian government crowed over Gilberto's arrest. "This is the beginning of the end of the Cali cartel," announced President Ernesto Samper Pizano. A press conference at police headquarters in Bogota, where Rodriguez was paraded about like war booty, had the air of a New Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KINGPIN CHECKMATE | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

Hagar says, "The few college students I saw [this must define youth] must have been there to get an autograph from Will Self, who apparently following a self-styled recovery plan, has stopped shooting heroin and started getting drunk at seven o'clock." I should say that Hagar admits to "digressing" in that sentence. Hagar must have the same skewed opinion on the definition of "drunk" as he or she does on "age". Will Self approached the podium with a beer in his hand, and without even reading from a text he recited a lengthy short story which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amis Reading Misrepresented | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

Software forging is safer than drug running. Narcotics money, often bearing residues of cocaine or heroin, can be detected by drug-sniffing dogs. Software pirates, on the other hand, often ship their profits back to Asia via U.S. Priority Mail. Besides, the penalties for getting caught are less severe, although that is changing. Law-enforcement agencies, including the fbi and the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, have made investigating this kind of crime a priority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HOTTEST SOFTWARE IN TOWN | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

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