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...problem is that PACS have helped raise the cost of campaigning, just as the desire to buy more and more expensive television time increases a candidate's dependency on PACs. Says Democrat Andrew Jacobs of Indiana, a critic of PACs: "It's like getting addicted by a pusher. You become accustomed to lavish campaigns." In 1974 the average cost of campaigning for the House was $50,000; in 1980 the average was $150,000, and this year races costing $500,000 are not uncommon. Says House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois, who has raised more than...
Howard vividly recalls the anxiety of later "overhears." Says he: "Every delay, every long pause, and we wondered-had they figured it out?" In fact, one of the targets did figure it out. Suspecting after a second tape-recorded cocaine sale that he was being set up, the pusher threatened to kill Watson and his family. Instead, Chandler pressured the man to cooperate. "He flipped," says Chandler. "He was looking out for his ass." As it turned out, the "flipper" made drug buys that accounted for ten of the 13 indictments. In return he may escape jail...
...Caribbean, vainly searching for health and cheer. Dempster pores over royal records and checks back issues of the newspapers, but one of his most reliable sources seems to be an old friend of Margaret's whose drug-dependent son sold photographs of the princess to pay off his pusher. By the final curtain, Margaret and Roddy have split and the public is once again inquiring whether Her Royal Highness is worth a Civil List allowance of ,?82,000 per annum...
...almost nothing else can, leading them to hate the system--both the crooks and the courts--that makes their world the way it is. So the cops live outside the system: sometimes they steal because they are greedy, sometimes because they figure they deserve the money more than some pusher. Sometimes they actively bust heads because they think it works as a deterrent, and sometimes they just ignore everything they see, waiting for the pension 20 years will bring them. Often the job, with its endless contradictions, proves too much. As Ciello points out, Mafiosi never commit suicide, while cops...
...that "most of the world's work is done by people who do not feel very well." In the U.S. particularly, says Psychiatrist Mitchell Rosenthal, "people believe that you don't have to feel uncomfortable if you have the right doctor, the right drug connection, the right pusher. We have lost touch with the fundamental notion that people can operate not always feeling terribly well. Taking cocaine is not the answer. In the end it leaves you psychologically bankrupt...