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...agent and the General then went back toward Gold Street in a taxi, followed in a gray Dodge station wagon by a third Chinese, Guan Chow-tok, bringing the heroin. But Guan, owner of the sportswear shop, doubled back and dropped the heroin in a vacant lot, arriving emptyhanded. He seemed worried about police. The agent and Guan argued in the street in front of Beekman Hospital for several minutes, and finally the hesitant Chinese agreed to make the deal. The four men piled into the green Cadillac and followed the gray Dodge station wagon to a dark, deserted street...
...work out narcotics deals with the Corsicans and later turned up in Ecuador to check out a cocaine network in which he had been offered a partnership. The Union Corse also supplied and financed the new gangs of South Americans, Puerto Ricans and blacks, who moved into the vacant territories. All members of the milieu were instructed to avoid disturbing those Mafiosi who still continued to deal in narcotics-chiefly the capos and soldiers of the Bonanno and Gambino families...
...highly successful head of the United Negro College Fund. While Jordan was with the fund, Young asked him to become his assistant. Vernon replied that he would not become anyone's deputy. Said Young: "The only other job for you here is mine, and it's not vacant...
When, with tragic suddenness, the job did become vacant, Jordan took it. His first step was to decentralize. The league's 101 local affiliates were instructed to search out local needs. "In New York," says Jordan, "we can't decide what is most important to black people in Little Rock. The people in Little Rock have to decide that." He is working to broaden the leadership of the league so that it will include the poor and welfare recipients along with solidly established professionals. A resolution recently passed by the league's general assembly requires that...
...when necessary; and in particularly sensitive cases putting those on the scene of the accident into direct contact via radiophone with an expert in the type of injury sustained by the victim. They also maintain a constant phone check on participating hospitals, and know the location of the nearest vacant bed for any type of patient. "We know where every burn bed is in the state of Illinois," says Roy Leslie, trauma coordinator at Cook County Hospital in Chicago...