European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes columns Tom Wicker the Many faceted Nightmare in Central Park in Ilkiv one nen1 York woman read about inc car Ful going rape in inc upper reaches of Central Park her first read Ion was that the victim had no business being there after dark. Her next instinct was to be angry with herself for blaming the victim. Indeed the woman assaulted in inc Park by a gang of Wilding teen agers had cd cry right to be where she was Ai that Lime 1c, because of the fear that afflicts Moil Urban dwellers she had shied from running there she would have surrendered to that fear and yielded her Freedom to those who caused in. As most of " instead she affirmed inc Primacy of Freedom Over fear All Honor to her for hat. Dut what happened to her does not seem to me to have happened merely As rate must of her affirmation and he remarkable Shock and anger aroused in this City of terrible deeds Are then1 other kinds of cities May Trace to the worst fear of All. That this crime is inexplicable. None of inc usual suspects can be rounded up. The Youthful assailants were not. By definition Ghet to kids constantly roaming the streets without Root. Guide or destination All had sonic degree of Means and stability in their lives. They were not on drugs the police reported and their crime was not drug re  rape when victim and rapist arc strangers usually is a lonely act of rage at women generally or at some thing an individual male associates ill women. Bui the Central part attackers Stem to have been caught. . Rosenthal up in a mob spirit a Alicr than the rapist s More directed anger. The ferocity of the attack the repealed beatings the use of a pipe As a weapon that do  hard  but is not keen on paying for it. And surround ing them m the City is a Miasma of doubt that anything hey do . No Pinsl drugs so All that is left is to give in and  live behind the  news in any of that. I3ui perhaps there is a line news in this they do not clutch their Heads in despair Robert Morgenthau the Besl Knon and probably inc most respected District attorney in the country1 docs hot clutch i head. Neither do the Young men and women lawyers who work for him and the City for years at about a in incl of what icy could earn by walking a few by Wifki to Wall Street. The Okinow the drug answer it not theirs alone 10 disc that it lies in he determination of the whole society and that Day has rial arrived. Meanwhile they know that it least the ran by pan of the answer and part of the determination. They work with what Ulicy have. They put Forward ideas and suggestions on How the Law and the Public might help them to work belter. Janet scr Tori is in charge of coordinating the handling of narcotics cases that come to the District attorney s of dec 3v.ooo of them last year. Her in me Diate suggestion has to do with fighting sales in the places she thinks  schools and the near them the stale legislature raised the Penally for sales in and around schools from one to three years in jail to two to six years list the increased Penally could not he enforced. The Law says the sales Musl be to Peor pie younger than 19, now police work in school areas through undercover cops Olio May look Young but by another Law must be at Iasi 20 years old. Len non and the Law enforcement Community want the increased penalties a apply to All sales around schools even to 10-year old cops. What is Morgenthau asking for these Days nol the death Penally or any thing that dramatic. He asks that new York police be allowed to do what Fedor Al agents can already do turn Over a tight thai tens of. Millions  dollars never can be used. There Are a do in other suggestions the District attorneys and police of the Sale Are fighting for most of them Wilh the backing of a ctr Mario Cuomo and mayor Edward Koch. Nol one of them will end drug Crinow Noi even All of Ihm Logcher. Sull until Ihil country makes a social decision against drugs they will help More than head jul chm. The f Hiltl of All this is that time after Lime  people who devote  to the struggle against drugs so Ach tingly slow in results Are the most encouraging,1 it born. This is actually Siig Gesick and often. Legalisation is not a mass movement by ii has a Strong Appeal for Many americans whose ideas Are heard in Aca in my and journalism. As a matter of fact that is Why i travelled downtown. The ice Aizers May be few in number but they All seem to write letters usually Nasty ones. I needed. A conversation based on the Assumption of hard work and common sense figured the District attorney s office might be a Good place to get it and turned out  no irom time the opinions c in Ufa in the columns and cartoons on his Page represent those of the ambers and Are in no Way to be Conj tiered As representing the views of the stars and stripes or the United Stales Goi Crement