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Chuck heard this and said that he was, indeed, a junkie. He wanted to know if Tom had ever been strung out. No. Then Tom couldn't know what it was like. He told me that he had one brother who was in jail for dealing heroin and another in jail for attempted murder; that one got into a shootout in a bank robbery and nearly got killed but looked like he would live to stand trial. Then he told me that he had fixed ten cc's of heroin one time and David said it was a lie--nobody...
...said that Chuck had told him about going into the recruiting sergeant's office wasted on heroin and the sergeant knew it and told Chuck not to say anything when he took the physical, and also when he got to Fort Dix. Tom said that he knew about another guy who had high blood pressure and couldn't pass the test and the sergeant gave him pills to take so that he could pass it. Then Tom said again how he was mad at being stuck with these guys and started swearing to himself...
...past three years, 86 policemen have been indicted for crimes; 48 have been convicted, including two captains. A total of 407 cops have been fired or forced to quit after superiors accused them of such activities as consorting with prostitutes and selling heroin. Investigations are still going...
...still another scandal, after six bodies were found floating in the city's waterways, suspicion focused not on Chicago's gangsters but on Chicago's cops. Some of the victims were thought to be dealers in heroin who had failed to buy off the police with bribe money...
...Downing) begins as a sort of hustler-prince, a Prohibition vintner on the trail of his vanished friend Wine, who represents a lost magic, the secret of the race. A funky and inventive Candide, MacDaddy travels through peckerwood racism, black venality, Tomism and the death's-head enemy, heroin...