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Drug dealers fuel the violence. Even when food and water were hard to come by in the weeks after Hurricane Andrew, crack and pot were readily available. One Florida City dealer, flush with a supply of 5,000 nickel bags, was selling marijuana "like a McDonald's drive-through, even taking tools in trade for drugs," says local police sergeant Gail Bowen...
...KNOCKING over a glass of milk, Anthony Knighton has his excuses ready. He was just playing. It was an accident. He didn't know the gun was loaded. It could have happened to anyone. Then he admits he shot a pregnant girl because she wouldn't give him a nickel...
...corner grocery in his hometown of Deerfield Beach, Florida, on Aug. 13, 1990. The store sold them two for a quarter, and Knighton, then 16, had only 20 cents in his pocket. So on the way he stopped to ask a neighbor, Schanell Sorrells, 13, for a nickel. Schanell said she didn't have one. He shouted, "Give it over." She refused...
...trigger. The bullet ripped through her unborn baby's head. Schanell managed to stagger to the room she shared with her mother and four siblings in a boardinghouse in one of the oldest, most dangerous neighborhoods of Deerfield Beach. As she collapsed on a bed, Knighton took a nickel from her room, strolled back to the store and calmly bought two Kools...
...Desert Storm has been a case study in guile, ruthlessness and careful timing. The clash over the Agriculture Ministry is the fifth time the allies have had to cock their guns to ensure compliance with U.N. sanctions; each time in the past Saddam backed down. "He is trying to nickel-and-dime us until he can erode the sanctions and regain his sovereignty," says Phebe Marr of the National Defense University in Washington...