European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes William Buckley january 1978 ballot boxes use of heroin urged for cancer patients not Many years reaching Home hum the i discovered the normally imperturbable laity who has cooked for my family for a Quarter Century tar gone in she is an elderly and Hardy cuban who Early in life suffered a lifetimes ration at sorrow and and for that reason her were not treated at though caused by a collapsed 1 got the Story from her in a through an intermediary in her dying of cancer in miserable no mor became castros Supply was available Only to the i called my favorite out of Tonti on a fishing i asked another doctor a hypothetical question what would doctors prescription took like authorizing enough morphine for Dally doses for 80 Days to a dying Patten i scratched out the hieroglyphics on a doctors approached the who whistled at the us of the order but got out the stuff which i drove to pan american at Kennedy and put into the hands of a in my brother had arranged to meet the take the package and give it to a Pilot in bound Tor Twenty four hours later the dying woman had her Short lifetimes Supply of Back from Bis fishing trip the doctor telephoned easygoing in his conversational but steel in his i note from record that have come in from the pharmacy that 1 have authorized you to pick up morphine Worth about on the Black Are you enjoying it i he executed papers that designated the dosage Ai designed for a Case of terminal and somehow the irregularity of the transaction never attracted official what does attract official attention he become the object of a crusade led by Judith Quattlebaum of she is the head of something called the com Mittee on the treatment of intractable pain has one example will do one example is almost too i have lost my Mother with incurable uterine her pain Wai so horrid that she Lent her mind and ate her Botton lip completely off from clenching her top Teeth so my 13year old sister and i watched this for six we would enter the Small Hospital and hear her screams u soon As we closed the the nurse had no Way to quiet she was immune to conventional u is not Safe to say that such torment As this would simply cease to be if the United Stales were to change Laws in order to permit the Nanu Fartun and administration of heroin under carefully controlled Circum but doctors seem to agree that heroin will do Mere than morphine for several one is that it is capable of producing a higher degree of another is that the hydrochloride Content makes it More Lea inserted into the flesh can do More than the larger doses of the which has acquired some distinguished including the Active patronage of congressman Newton steers of is up against the conventional  of the Law with Fiat magisterial irrelevance of which it is so regularly in effect authorizes the use of heroin Only for teenagers in ghettos who have relatively Little trouble in acquiring while their grandmothers die in pain under the  of the the committee on he treatment of intractable pain can be reached at sad River Maryland Roy Wilkins Meme on Ine treatment of  pain us minority contractors still struggle la l i our concern in America for health and As dour As the most misanthropic countries on Earth when it comes to certain kinds of there Are a number of objectives Endor sed by Quattlebaum but that which has received the most attention is the for a silent who suffer from terminal of the heroin she had a personal experience during the second world observing the agonizing death other then she watched Stewart Alsop on the Dick caveat describing the death throes of a patient occupying an adjacent she launched the and people began in Send her cose which she it is one of those smooth superfine acts of discrimination against that u what is said about the bonding Tor minority while the Federal government is projecting billions of dollars of building financed with Public the Independent agents who write surety Bonds for contractors Are turning Down applications for minority con tractors in accordance with Eric who is chairman of a group calling itself the metro new York Council of minority said he hails the notion of putting Money into the but he tees the bonding problem As the major in the Aid Days it was any business with a profit Over Flo was strictly for Whites now everything has changed and Black hitherto unthought of As bidders for larger contracts in the construction Are bidding for Fli Aid cotillion Evora by was a partner to the construction of a new York state office building i columns comments in Winston burnetts contracts included housing projects in Alabama and California and a private project of 110 the Wool onh Puuding on 125th Street in new William Jenkins bad a 4 million electrical contract on the slate building in Harlem and another Hack contractor had a n million electrical contract on the world Trade during the Nixon a moratorium on housing along with a a new York City could not  would him with a in order to bid be j of he own judge Henry worker 4 Federal District court in Neyo upheld a 1977 Law requiring that at i percent of each Grant made by fee i government for local projects program be at located to minor it this Law had by associations of White building i if the future ruling by f supreme court in the Aue Bakke  Cue not judge Weikert might help a Little in the general i minority but there 1 bonding it u More than a suspicion i some without Are to retard the Progress of Blacks Tol where profits Are to be we hear tortes of Whites too country As immigrants sacrifice and poverty and language difficulty millionaire tic Are dear or one on Ejem enl in our american Solety Why Are there so Tew among Blacks Peri been conspiracy u keen poor and Hani twi been the und of i there according to some 330 p when Gabriel who has been a successful contractor for 10 bid on a renovation project at Harlem band win permit they can