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Doctors have little doubt that crack is driving the new epidemic of drug- affected infants. "When crack cocaine hit Oakland, the number of small, sick babies just went through the roof," says Fulroth. The statistics bear him out. In 1984 some 5% of the newborns at Highland General Hospital, which serves Oakland's rough inner city, were contaminated with the drug. So far this year, about 20% of all babies born at Highland have been afflicted by crack. The problem, however, is not confined to low-income, minority patients. Says Chasnoff: "Our findings cut across all socioeconomic backgrounds...
Thirteen people died, including two flight attendants and a 14-month-old girl who perished with her parents. Astonishingly, 95 survived, some by climbing through a charred hole in the roof, others by clambering through emergency exits and across the burning wings. Fire fighters arrived within four minutes of the crash and managed to douse the fire with foam in another six minutes...
Shultz had been scheduled to go to the Hotel La Paz but instead was rushed directly to the U.S. Embassy, which was cordoned off by police and had sharpshooters dispatched to the roof...
...four-room dwelling, for which they pay $30 a month in rent, is owned ! by a coal company. Taped to the kitchen wall is a newspaper article with a drawing of a house with floor plans. Nancy calls it "our dream house." With its dormer windows and steeply pitched roof, the structure looks more suited to suburbia than to this West Virginia hollow. But it has four bedrooms...
...Roof...