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German cinema has given the world a cast of characters as varied as the diabolical Dr. Caligari and the sultry chanteuse of Blue Angel. But none was ever quite like the film heroine that has recently drawn West German audiences to the movies in droves-Christiane F.: We Children from the Zoo Station. The protagonist starts off as a teen-age prostitute and drug addict who haunts the squalid fringes of West Germany's affluent society. On the screen, when she is not listening to David Bowie tapes in the labyrinthine subway corridors of the station near Berlin...
...reporter's dream come true: a gripping Page One story in the Washington Post, a public outcry, an investigation by the city and, finally, the Pulitzer Prize. For a glorious Monday last week, Janet Cooke, 26, hit the jackpot. Her sensational account of "Jimmy," an eight-year-old heroin addict, had won the Pulitzer for feature writing, and she seemed destined for stardom at one of the nation's most respected newspapers...
...World" were anything but ordinary. Though bright and ambitious, Cooke was rather inexperienced for such a sensitive story, having worked only 2½ years at the Toledo Blade and nine months at the Post. In "Jimmy's World," she described how a black youngster was given heroin injections by a drug dealer as his mother looked on. Cooke had earned the assignment by writing what one editor described as a "brilliant" story on 14th Street, N.W., which is in a Washington section known for its pushers and hookers. The article on Jimmy was reported during several weeks last fall...
...identify the boy so that he could be helped. When the Post invoked First Amendment protection of confidential sources, Mayor Marion Barry assigned a task force of hundreds of police and social workers to locate Jimmy. From the start, narcotics agents doubted that any drug dealer would provide costly heroin to a talkative youngster who might tip off teachers and friends. After three weeks and thousands of man-hours, the search was called off. Says Barry: "I was very firm in my conviction that Miss Cooke's article was part myth, part reality...
Though Army officials are heartened by the sharp decline in heroin use, they are plainly concerned about the increased popularity of softer drugs in the ranks. And with good reason. Last year courts-martial connected with cocaine, marijuana and hashish trafficking or use jumped an eye-opening 122%. The new drug of particular preference among U.S. servicemen? Cocaine, known in the street vernacular as coke...