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Late morning. Harlem Hospital. Doris White (not her real name), 32, pulls her thin robe across her narrow, bony chest and lights a cigarette. Her dark arms are riddled with small, round scars, the hieroglyphs of chronic heroin abuse. She is here for the seventh time in two years. In 1982 she brought her four- year-old son Rashan to this same hospital. The boy was listless, losing weight; he had white spots on his lips and tongue. The boy's father, a drug addict, had recently come out of prison and was not at all well himself...
Dealers offered them marijuana, heroin and crack; one peddler, mistaking a Soviet cigarette for something more potent, offered to buy up all the visitor could deliver. Astonished that much of the illegal enterprise was conducted while policemen stood nearby, Dr. Andrei Vrublevsky said selling drugs on the street "would be impossible in our country. If a dealer did do that, he would be taken in to the police, with the help of citizens...
...early 1985 the CIA was desperate to rescue William Buckley, its station chief in Beirut who had been kidnaped. An interagency group was formed, and two agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration were recruited to contact informants they had developed while tracing Middle Eastern heroin traffic. A longtime informant told them he had located the people holding Buckley and another hostage. The captors would let the two go, he said, for a $200,000 bribe...
...have re-emerged to cash in on their fans' retroactive hero worship. Why not hit the reunion circuit? It sure beats sitting around the mansion watching the hair around your temples turn gray, or working as a garbageman, thinking of what might have been if wasn't for that heroin problem. After all, there are plenty of people willing to pay to see you go through the motions one last time, and all "creative differences" disappear when the buzz of stardom wears...
...powers that be nixed the idea, but I'm still in favor of it. If any of you feel like taking part, I'll pay the prize money out of my own pocket--but please, no narcs and no heroin with Parkinson's disease in it. Losing entries will not be returned...