Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current fiasco in Panama demonstrates the Reagan administration's lack of concern with democracy, and its promotion of instability and ruin. As early as 1972, the U.S. government knew that General Noriega was linked to the drug trade. In 1985, the U.S. Army Southern Command in Panama wrote a report citing the involvement of Panama Defense Forces in the drug trade. The evidence was so strong that several senior United States officials tried--and failed--to turn American policy against General Noriega...
What the young recruits found was not what they had been promised. At the height of their empire, the Chambers gang controlled about half of Detroit's crack trade, running 200 drug houses, supplying some 500 more and raking in $3 million a week. The key to their success was the supply of green kids from Marianna, who were subjected to a regimen far more harrowing than Marine boot camp...
...young men who became runners, couriers and dealers were threatened and abused. The trick in the crack trade, police say, is to keep people in line. If the Chamberses' recruits tried to flee, the brothers knew where to find them. "A Chicago kid might be able to leave, but not a kid from Marianna," says the town's police chief, Mark Birchler...
...concerts and plays. Toni Moore, 47, a schoolteacher from Charlotte who has been married eight years and has chosen not to have children, helps pay tuition for her niece and nephew and takes them along on special vacations. New York City-based Joni Evans, 45, publisher of Random House trade books, openly mothers her authors and colleagues and feels no societal pressure to have children ("People ask, Are you a child person or not? You're not? O.K."). As for fears of growing old without children, Psychologist Goodchilds explains, "For many, not having children removes the concern of being...
...Reagan gets an earful on the Meese malaise at Justice. -- A squabble over plant shutdowns imperils the trade bill. -- Ferries are back...