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...radio ads, Goldberg presses his message home, charging that the gap between Rockefeller's promises and performance makes his "credibility" a principal issue. The particular problem that has received the greatest attention from both men is one that preoccupies the voters: narcotics. New York City is the acknowledged heroin capital of the nation, and more of the city's teen-agers die from drug abuse than from any other single cause...
...Rockefeller's narcotics program is scandalous," Goldberg says. He has promised to provide treatment within six months for every addict who wants it, and has even said he would walk ghetto streets himself to be sure heroin is no longer being openly sold. Rockefeller candidly admits the seriousness of the situation even while he emphasizes his efforts to alter...
...people: Marshall Bloom, the co-founder of LNS who single-handedly ran the anarchic organization, and whose singularly dynamic personality eventually led to the split in the LNS; Little Stevie Wonder, a 16-year-old photographer-hanger-on who ended up dead in a car accident, strung up on heroin; Bala, Bala, another co-founder and jack-of-all-trades, now in hiding; and Verandah Porche, poet-in-residence who termed their band "refugees in winter dress/skating home on thin ice/from the Apocalypse." And he relates their schemes with delight: freaking out Eugene McCarthy and a convention of college editors...
...students bank robbing revolutionaries? "No," he answered, "I have two daughters in college and they're not revolutionaries." A precarious friendship with Mayor White after the Hemenway incidents, a nation-wide wave of radical bombings, a timid Boston citizenry, afraid to go on the streets at night, a soaring heroin problem, a dead herocop, a police department that wants to bust some heads, and two daughters living right in the midst of the enemy! Commissioner McNamara broke all rules on pre-trial publicity and ... blew his cool...
...dope and music were, and they came to cash in. Some estimated the average daily floater population of Cambridge as above 4,000. People working at Project Place estimated by the end of the summer that one out of six street freaks sitting at Forbes Plaza was on heroin...