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...office with semiautomatic weapons leaned up against the wall. It is safe to say that the paranoia level was high on all sides." Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, who edited the cover, was struck by the complexity of the current cocaine craze, both in its origins and implications. "Unlike heroin, cocaine use can't be tied to poverty and neglect," he says. "It seems to have more to do with social ritual, spiritual impoverishment and lack of confidence in the future." Senior Writer Michael Demarest, who wrote the main story, speculates that cocaine's appeal is at least partly...
...close bonds between the President and the military could lead a counterrevolutionary coup. Vowing that he would "cut everybody's hands off" who threatened Islam, Khomeini fired Banisadr as commander in chief. He then issued a stern warning to military officers: "Politics in the army is worse than heroin. It destroys the army from inside...
There was the time, for instance, when Jaclyn was shot full of heroin and did not even know it, the time the three beautiful detectives all went killer-hunting on the ski slopes at Vail - all those wildly implausible climaxes that framed the weekly beauty pageant, shoot-'em-up farce and national phenomenon known as Charlie's Angels. "And we're going to decide right now," says Bosley (David Doyle), the den father who romps but never flirts with the Angels, "that it has all been worth it. Every damn minute...
...unit than police station. Its inmates have one common ambition: survival-from perpetrators and pistols, alcoholism and insanity, suicide and divorce. These are choirboys at the end of the song. Their angst is echoed on the mean streets just below the topiary of Beverly Hills: heroin, child abuse, pornography, snuff films and bizarre murder. When Film Studio Boss Nigel St. Claire is found with two .38-cal. bullets in his face, Al Mackey and Marty Welborn, a couple of Wambaugh's best creations, are called...
Over the past decade, West Germany has become Europe's biggest market for illegal heroin, and an alarming number of the estimated 50,000 hard-drug users are still in their teens. By the time the real Christiane F. was approached by two reporters from the West German weekly Stern, she had successfully shaken her heroin habit, but the story she told them of drug abuse among young people shocked a nation ignorant of the dimensions of the problem. A book based on her Stern disclosures became an instant bestseller in 1979 and has sold 1.3 million copies...