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...jazz-guitarist father and a 14-year-old mother, Morgan was playing club dates in Los Angeles when he was still a teenager. He'd back up Billie Holliday or Josephine Baker at night, then go to high school during the day. By 17, he had himself a heroin habit. He received a stern lecture on the evils of using hard drugs from the Yardbird, who undercut his position by promptly sampling Morgan's stash. "Like it or no," Morgan says, "what he was saying was not nearly as loud as what he was doing...
Italians call the Sicilian Mafia "the Octopus," and justly so. As investigative reporter Claire Sterling shows, its tentacles have branched from Palermo over the past 30 years to get a global stranglehold on the $100 billion heroin market -- and a major stake in the new cocaine trade. With billions in profits to launder annually, the Sicilian Mafia also ranks as the world's most profitable multinational, showing a return of 1,600% on its investment...
...drugs shipped in wigs, cows' bellies, and women's girdles. Sterling studied wiretap and court transcripts, then interviewed cops, judges, prosecutors and even Mafiosi. Her book shows how the failure of U.S. and Italian authorities to compare notes and settle turf disputes allowed the Sicilians to win the heroin war. While Washington focuses on the Medellin cocaine cartel, the Sicilians merrily push heroin Stateside and are opening up new cocaine channels to Europe -- both East and West. Their newest target? Says Sterling: the Soviet Union...
...worst problems of the black underclass today -- young black men murdering other young black men; young black males fathering children of females who are virtually children themselves; young blacks lost to crack and heroin -- all connect directly to black manhood and responsibility...
...with marks (West) would be wildly inflationary because the G.D.R., like other East European countries, suffers from acute concealed inflation -- huge amounts of paper money and no goods to buy. Even a replacement at current black market rates of 7 or even 10 to 1 would be like mainlining heroin. Before any monetary unification, the excess purchasing power represented by those East marks has to be mopped up and a better balance of supply and demand established. One way would be for East Germany to destroy savings by a radical currency reform...