Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last night's meeting included members of numerous organizations concerned with Central America and "representatives of universities, trade unions, and everybody else," Sweatland said...
Washington' s long- standing tolerance for Strongman Manuel and the brutal drug- related slaying of a New York City policeman are symbols of a losing battle. -- Detroit, Miami and Washington illustrate how the booming trade in crack has destroyed inner- city neighborhoods. -- A day in the life of George Bush' s campaign juggernaut...
...America's struggle against drugs is indeed a war, then the nation's inner cities are the trenches. Ghettos have always been the main marketplace for narcotics, but never before has the drug trade been so pervasive or its repercussions so brutal. The primary reason is crack, the cheap and highly powerful cocaine derivative. The booming crack business has led to unprecedented violence by dealers fighting for their share of the market. Widespread addiction to the drug has helped further shred what was left of the tattered social fabric of the ghetto. The mean streets of the inner city form...
...gang is the largest of some 30 so-called posses across the U.S. that have been set up by illegal Jamaican aliens. With branches in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Kansas City, Dallas, Washington and other large cities, the Jamaican network has come to dominate the U.S. crack trade in the past two years. Sporting such fanciful nicknames as "Tivoli Gardens," "Bushmouth" and "Superstar," the posses currently have more than 3,000 members and are growing fast...
...Jamaicans have found a niche, along with the Colombians and Cubans, in Miami's drug trade. Unlike the South American gangsters who sell narcotics wholesale, the Jamaicans are primarily street dealers and crack-house operators. Their enterprise has proved outrageously lucrative: posses will process a $6,000 kilo of cocaine into crack and sell...