European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday oetobw4.198e de launching 24 task forces to fight crack Washington api Twenty four Law enforce ment task forces an being created by the government to combat sales of crack says attorney general Edwin Melesc As a trusty reports we of the drug is retching epidemic  under the proposal by the Reagan administration,50 aunts from the drag enforcement administration and 32 support personnel will join state and local police to try reducing the Trade in the potent cocaine  announcing the proposal thursday Mcnese said Federal drug agents will still concentrate on interdict. J no Ocoyne shipments into the country. Bui special drag trafficking problems require special efforts and we believe that new Steps arc appropriate to help in a num Ber of areas that have serious crack problems headed. The crack problem i fast becoming a problem of epidemic proportion sin some Lane is. Cit ies concluded a report issued by the Justice dem in put ment at the sometime Meese announced plans for the task forces. The Aba would finance the program beginning Early next year under a $10 million supplemental appropriation the Reagan administration Hopes to pus through Congress one task Force already is operating in new Yor City where there Are literally thousands of crack Mills it truly is a cottage Industry said Dea agent Robert Strung crack production sales and distribution Are handled almost exclusively by Low level retail dealers with seizures usually less than an ounce Dea officials have said. Under the task Force approach Dea agents will provide training and share intelligence to assist state and local police in moving against Street level crack dealers. Sea spokesman Robert Feldkamp said Likely locations for the task forces would include the 18 metro Politan areas listed in a Dea report last week As place where crack has been found to be available. Crack is a purified form of cocaine derived by com Bining the drug with baking soda or ammonia and water. The highly potent base which drug users smoke through a pipe has led to huge increases in cocaine related overdoses according to drug abuse monitoring organizations. Last week s Dea report on crack listed these Citie Sas places where crack is readily available Atlanta bos ton Detroit Houston. Kansas City Miami Newyork Newark san Diego san Francisco Seattle and St.  at some level was reported in Dallas Denver los Angeles Minneapolis photon an Washington . Crack is generally unavailable in Chicago new or leans and Puad Dutia according to the Dea. High wire artists who defects from Moscow make . Debut a nearly three months after slip Ping away from the Moscow state circus High wire team Nidhi Nikolski and Bertalina Kozlav Kovago a stand ovation Al their american debut and said they Radho regrets about defecting. Consider Edve of the finest High wire acts in the soviet Union of husband and wife performed with circus us Wear Here to a packed audience of1,000, who swell Ltd beneath a traditional big top tent wednesday c sure we miss on families but we have no re Grets Kozakova a through an interpreter after the show. The crowd fun very different Here. The Yare not afraid to Tell you iat they think coming to this count Vas the Best decision Weever made. A the husband and wife my 35, defected fro the Moscow circus during iks annual tour in Argentina on aug. 4, they ent to the  in Buenos Aires and Weed for political Asylum which they received in after the were flown to Miami. _ Hen landforms Inthey shunned the big Ringling Virnum a Bailey circus which Arnu Large indoor Arenas. Instead they cram to per form for a month with the Miami Baum circus Usa then work on their own books. Date across the country. The couple said they believed they of two Wausa teat Hen the couple ended their act the crowd stood to cheer them and other circus per gathered in the Center ring carrying Flag and sparklers. To end the Bow set Jbf no shopping mall a 35-Foomonfamenomflag was unfurled from the tent s top. Study my fish Art health Oil reduced  in pigs in a new that eating fish Mayi strokes in humans re Boston Kupij cod amount of hardening of the r study providing More evid help prevent heart attacks i searchers said wednesday we Are certainly not a position to recommend that people Start taking up of fish Oil said or. Peter to blood research Laboratory at Hospital. But this does rep it  were fed a diet High in artery. Fat seven pigs also received liver Oil each Day. After eight were dissected. 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Showed 78 percent of the boys and 69percent of the girl preferred to Date non Moneta while Only i percent of All teen agers Wen actively seeking a sweetheart who smoked. The rest said h made no difference whether their " Date than were surveyed said the or. Only 3 percent of teen agers who  Iwa ated a partner who did the same. The majority often age smokers said it made no difference while 10 percent said they would prefer a non smoker eve though they smoked themselves. James Swomley managing director of the american lung association said the Campaign is aimed at America s youth because the vast majority of Butar smokers Mart the habit a teenagers. Zuj. He Aid cigarette advertising appeals to you Oti  f a jul to a teem. Tsp litre  because they Sra pc. Also banded an award Toi to fool Board fat the heart of North _  my so Van who a were bestowed by Star Kareem Aboul-ji.T. Us Man d-calif., for Tuter work in people from smoking