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...homeboys call him Frog. But as he swaggers through the Rancho San Pedro Housing Project in East Los Angeles, Frog is a cocky prince of the barrio. His mane of lustrous jeri curls, his freckled nose and innocent brown eyes belie his prodigious street smarts. Frog is happy to tell you that he rakes in $200 a week selling crack, known as rock in Los Angeles. He proudly advertises his fledgling membership in an ultra-violent street gang, the Crips. And he brags that he has used his drug money to rent a Nissan Z on weekends...
Just before the Betty Ford Center opened in the affluent desert town of Rancho Mirage, Calif., in 1982, neighbors ventured out across their well- manicured lawns to ask the staff a few questions. "Will there be bars on the windows?" they wanted to know. "Will they get out and go drinking in the neighborhood?" The answer in each case was of course no, but the questions reveal a familiar attitude toward alcoholics: many people thought of them as hardly better than criminals or at the very least disturbed and bothersome people. But at the same time the fact that...
...were accurately reporting the changes in her own life, she would admit that she no longer has to count the crumbs in cracker-box suburbia. If state-fair-quality dust balls grow anywhere in her snazzy Arizona rancho, it is in the box with those twelve honorary doctorates. Maybe she could do a column on rising to accept her appointment to the President's Advisory Committee for Women, only to feel the elastic turn coward and head south in her . . . nah. Bombeck knows what she is doing, and she honors the passage of time by retelling beloved old knee slappers...
...does, Reagan will undoubtedly take his visitor to Rancho del Cielo, the President's ranch in the mountains above Santa Barbara, perhaps for Thanksgiving. Reagan would love to show Gorbachev the sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean and inland valleys. (One problem: Can the Soviet leader ride a horse, and would he be willing to try? Nobody in the U.S. professes to know.) Reagan has mused in the past about showing a Soviet leader middle-class American homes, schools, churches, possibly a high-tech factory; the President appears to think the picture of capitalist prosperity would impress even so dedicated...
...controversy. Nor, he says, is Wife Tammy Faye available. "This whole time she's been shopping," he says, noting that she visits at least two flea markets a week. Until recently, both Jim and Tammy Bakker went five days a week to the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., where they were both outpatients. "I went because of Tammy," he says, explaining that his wife was addicted to a prescription tranquilizer as well as an over-the-counter allergy medicine...