APRIL 19 - 25,1987 THE MICHIGAN CITIZEN
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nap,
. Crack,' Pop.
By James BaJa p e
A whip produces the und-
era . It hurts, but it goes
away.
ow, there is the cocaine -
Crac. It stubbornly refu s
to go away.
Medical and law enforce­
ment officials id it ha just
been discovered that Crac,
tho little white cocaine
chunks i more dangerous and
de dly than previously believed.
Detroit s Crac u is no
more different, unfortunately,
than drug abu in other big
cities said Joel Gilliam, com­
manding officer of the Detroit
Police Department arcotic
Section.
'It sane phenomenom for
us' he said about Crack, which
when introduced to an urban
area violence emingly, Y:
rockey .
Late t figure on Detroit drug
rre ts show an average of 520
each month since January, Gil­
liam id.
The arrest rate is higher than
last year's total of 5,283 con­
victi n. Some of thi year's
arre t will get thrown out.
Figure on Crack arrests were
not available, he said.
Still fter cocaine is pro-
ce d into Crack, it is more
deadly, drug abu experts said.
'It is the faster and more
potent ction that makes Crack
more addicting, more toxic,
and more physically harmful,"
aid Dr. Arnold Washton,
director of research for 1-800-
COCAI E, an information r­
vice about cocaine which oper­
ates telephones 24 hours daily
and seven days weekly. '
ew ways of processing the
drug make its effect even
HO CRACK
AFFECT THE BODY
the streets - the nick-name
for the smokeable form of
cocaine.
It look like tiny chunks
sometimes called rocks. The
powdery white cocaine has to be
CMea.
changed to Crack by a process
called freebasing.
In that proceedure cocaine
is processed in a simple chamical
preparation using baking da,
heat, and water. The smokeable
crack is extracted for the pro­
ceedure.
"Smoking crack or cocaine
may cause significant irritation
to the lung," said Ann G. .
Olmsted, Ph.D., and chairperson
of the Smoking or Health
011 free line to Civil Rights
LA SI G - The Michigan
Department of Civil Rights has
installed toll-free number for
inquires relating to the certifi­
cation process of minority and
female-owned businesse .
Persons in Michigan only
may call 1-800/338-7347 to
reach the Department's minority
and women busine affairs
division in Lansing. Division
staff are responsible for reen­
ing and certifying applicants
that 0 minorities or women
own operate and control more
Blae
more dangerous.
"Lung damage, brain sei­
zures, and heart attacks are
far more likely to occur with
freebased rocks," Washton said.
Cocaine (cocaine hydrochlor­
ide) is a white crystalline or
powdery substance. For the
u r, it acts as a stimulant to
the nervous system, according
to a report by the American
Lung Association of Michigan.
The name Crack carne from
than 50 percent of the busi­
ness and accrue a majority of
the profits or losses.
Under Public Act 428,
minority and female-owned busi­
nesses must be certified prior
to participating in the State's
t-aside program.
Since 1981, the program has
assisted minority and female­
owned businesses by designat­
ing minimum goals for the
purchase of goods, rvices and
construction. According to the
Department of Management and
Budget, more than S 113 mil­
lion in state contracts were
awarded to minority and female­
owned busines sin 1986.
The minority and women
business affair division certifi­
ed 546 businesses in 1986.
Approved busine s are circu­
lated to state and local units
of government and other politi­
cal sub-divisions within the state.
To date, the list consists of
more than 1,400 busines s.
College Act offers hope
,0 NPA
of the new Black
ct and legi ative ' t
a ide ' of million of dollars
for historically and predomi­
nantly Blac colleges and uni­
ver 'ties m y re It in revitali­
zation of the institution as
well a new definitions, accord-
ing to Dr. Samuel yers,
pre . dent of the ational
ciation for Equal Opportun­
ity in Higher Education.
Outlinin i sue di cu d at
the 12th ational Conference
on Blac in Higher Education,
pril 9-12 here on Capitol
Hill and at the ashington
Hilton Hotel, Dr. yers ex-
plained that the revi d Title
III of the Higher Education
Reauthorization Act of 1986
provide up to 100 million
each year for the development
of the HBCU. However,
million more for educational
grants in tead of student loans
as urged by some 2,000
educ tors scholars and admini­
trators at the conference.
ember of Congress were
urged to join the respresen­
tatives of AFEO's 116 public
and private institutions and dis­
tinguished alumni of the hools
in a 4 celebration" of the Blac
College Act at the conference.
Sen. Paul Simon (Ddll. and
Rep. Augustus Hawkins (D­
Calif.) were honored along with
other congresspersons. Approxi­
mately 80 college presidents
attended.
Only 50.7 million of the
Black College Act authorization
has been appropriated for fiscal
1987 with at le st S350,000
each going to eligible institut­
ions. But, other 'set aside"
goals such as five percent of the
Defense department budget
Agency for International De­
velopment Fund and Depart­
ment of Transportation alloca­
tions could result in up to
S30 billion more for "histori-
cally t Blac hools.
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Committee of the Lung
As ciation.
U rs smoke crack in glass
pipes or rolled in marijuana
joints, or cigarette.
When crack is burned the
white cloud of smoke that is
inhaled enters the lungs is
ab rbed by the mucus mem­
branes and pumped by the
heart to the brain in as li ttle
as four to six seconds.
It pr duces a high m re
intense than snorting ocaine
and lasts between three and
eight minutes.
It also produces death u t
as quickly.
Consider these fa t b ut
cocaine and Crac :
-Four to six million Ameri­
cans and 17% of 1985 high
school students regularly use
cocaine, reports the ational
Institute on Drug Abuse.
-Cocaine exerts addictive
effects by causing biochemi al
changes in the brain. Thi
Faun royt
to cut
brain action timulates an in­
ten desire to experience the
effects of cocaine again and
accounts for the development
of compulsive u beyond the
control of the user.
-Increased do s of cocaine
place the user at high ri
izures and convulsions resp-ira­
tory function disturbances and
heart irregularities.
-Four common ays"a co-
caine is u d: snorted in-
. ected eaten or smoked.
-Crac is cheap deadly
and easy to u . Dope pushers
prefer t sell era k rather
than cocaine powder because
it is profitable easy to
handle and highly addictive.
Of cour that means steady
customers
For more information about
crack and cocaine, phone Lee
D goloff, executive direct r of
the Ameri an oun il f r Drug
Education at 301 4-5700.
reate
fun
srae
Responding to a report re­
leased I st week by the Rea­
gan Administration on U.S. allies
doing arms trade with South
Africa, Congressman Walter E.
Fauntroy (D-D.C.) said:
'That Great Britain France
Israel, West Germany Italy
the etherlands and Switzerland
are supplying arms to the
racist, fascist regime of South
Africa, in violation of the U. .
embargo, is a moral outrage.
"By so doing, they have
contributed to the murder and
maiming of hundreds of thou­
sands of Blacks, not only in
South Africa but also among
the ·150 million Blacks of the
Frontline States where South
Africa conducts and manages a
savage war.
"Equally as appalling is the
fact that these arm merchant
nations share responsibility for
the 10 billion in damage done
to the economies of southern
Africa by South Afri a's mili­
tary assaults on the Frontline
States over the past five years.
That S10 billion is more than
all the nations of the world
have contributed in develop­
ment assistance to that region
over the same period.
"While I welcome Israel'
recent decisi n to halt all new
arms sales to South Africa an
entirely appropriate response
would be for our country to
demand that the government
DID YOU
... that
if you ever get the urge to all
the White Hou and e pres
your views on me publi
is e you should call 202-456-
7639: That's the number for
the White Hou Comment Line.
of I rael and the arm mer­
chant in the other c untri
cancel f urthwith all pre fit
military sales contra t ith
outh Africa. F ailing that
the C ngress should riou sly
con ider cutting all military aid
to Israel this year and any
assistance provided tho TO
countries violating the arms
embargo in accordance ith the.
sancti n law we pa d last
year.
'It is particularly appalling
that the revelations c me at a
time when the Congres i in
the proce s of reducin f reign .
assistan e to frica y 37%
belo FY 5 level hile re­
taining the dministration re­
commended levels of pendin
for Israel Egypt an sian
nati ns. specially in light of
the dam e done to Afri b
the arm les this inequity
ought to be corrected by tran -
ferring 274 milli n from the
A sian/ ear E t t tal f r FY
'88 to Africa, thu re t ring
African foreign aid t it 19
funding level."