European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december 20,1989 the stars and stripes Page study finds White males top teen drug use Washington a a drug use Survey of students nationwide found that White High school seniors Are More Apt to abuse drugs than Black seniors Accord ing to figures released monday. The Survey also found that Black Stu dents used cocaine far less then their White counterparts despite finding it twice As easy to obtain. It goes a guilt conventional Wisdom particularly television has portrayed the problem of drug abuse in the United states As a Black inner City  said Doug Hall vice president of the National parents resource Institute for drug education inc. Atlanta based Pride surveyed 296.180 White students and 59.898 Blac students in grades six to 12 at 958 schools in 38 states during the 1988-89 school year. Included were students in inner City areas in Atlanta Chicago. Dal Las. Houston. New York and washing ton.  the key is keeping teen agers in  ride co founder Marsha Keith Schuchard said in a statement. Black students who slay in school have significantly fewer drug and alcohol  the focus on inner City drug use by Blacks feeds the increasing expressions of racism that surface daily in our coun  she said at news conference announcing the sur vey results. The preoccupation with Blacks an crack also misleads White parents into underestimating the temptations and dangers their teens face from the multimillion Dollar Schuchard drug  judge Reggie Walton associate director of the office of National drug control policy called drugs a american problem. For All too Long this problem has been portrayed As a Black problem and i think the end result has been that there arc some people who have not really cared a lot about it because of thai he said. This is an american problem not just a Black  Hall noted that Black students find cocaine about twice As available As White students but they use cocaine less than White students by a substantial  about 15 percent of Black students Overall said cocaine was Cash to get. Com pared with 8 percent of White student who responded that Way he said adding that cocaine referred to both the powder and its Smo Kably derivative crack. However in the 12th Grade in which some 40.000 students were surveyed Only 4 percent of the Black students said they had used cocaine at least once in the previous year. Seven percent of White students said they had done so. The picture changes a bit when the students were asked about frequency fusing cocaine. Three percent of Black male seniors and 2 percent of White male san Iris said they used cocaine very  meaning once a week three times a week or daily. At the same time. 4 percent of both Black and White male seniors reported using cocaine frequently meaning at least once a month. Meanwhile. 11 percent of Black male seniors and 12 percent of White male seniors said they used marijuana very frequently and 14 percent of Black male seniors and 17 percent of White male seniors said they used liquor very frequently. The students surveyed by Pride filled out Anonymous questionnaires that were spot checked internally with some what duplicated questions to determine the truthful Ness of responses. There also were occasional re tests of groups of Stu dents. Hall said. There was no Overall margin of error because the results were based on actual responses and the Survey was not a scientific random poll. Hall said the Survey found that in general the girls used less drugs than the boys. Fake first lady first Luiey Barbara Bush the real one is on the right stands next to a life site photograph of her and an american Indian during a visit monday to the crafts area of the . Soldiers and airmen s Home in Washington. The Home is a permanent residence for 2,000 retired or disabled Mcnice members. Buchwald listens of Hall testifies he Murphy behind film los Angeles a entertainer Arsinio Hall testified monday that he and Eddie Murphy conceived the idea for the movie coming to America on their own. The Laic night talk show Host testifying on behalf of Paramount pictures in a $5 million lawsuit filed by writer Art Buchwald said he never saw Buchwald s screenplay idea King for a Day before he and Mur Phy began work. Buchwald claims he wrote the original idea and had a contract with Paramount to develop it into a script. Hall speaking softly with Buchwald watching from a front Row scat said he and Murphy were intent on improving the image of Black people As Well As Mur Phy s own screen image. There had never been a Black fairy tale Hall said. We wanted to create like a fairy tale Beautiful like the Prince got the girl. We wanted a fairy tale everyone could relate to Hall said he and Murphy wanted to shape the screenplay themselves because otherwise it would just be another Black Story written by White  As far As Murphy s image he said we did a face lift on his character. He was not the wisecracking Axel Foley character from Beverly Hills cop this showed him soft sensitive non materialistic. He was a gentleman. In tiflis movie he was the perfect Man. Any woman would love  at one Point Hall said he and Murphy arc As close As Brothers but under questioning said he would not lie for Murphy. Hall noted that two other writers got the screen credit for coming to America and said thai if Mur Phy knew Buchwald was the writer he would have had no problem giving him credit. Federal agents probe secret Detroit drug fund by the los Angeles times Detroit in a widening scandal that has rocked the Detroit police department Federal investigators Are prob ing whether Cash from a million Dollar secret police fund earmarked for narcotics investigations went to pay the rent on the posh Beverly Hills Home of the Daugler of Detroit s police chief. The apparent diversion occurred at a Lime when Detroit police were so Short of Cash that undercover officers were paying for Street level buys of crack co Caine out of their own pockets. The scandal has become a major embarrassment for a City suffering under a plague of drug related crime where Resi dents often complain about the police s inability to rid i hair neighbourhoods of crack houses and drug dealing gangs. A mounting Public outcry Over the Case has led several City Council members to Call for the suspension of police chief William Harl. Who has already had control of the secret fund taken from him by mayor Coltman Young. That action came in the Wake of allegations that Hart s daughter had $72.000 in rent paid Over two years on her Beverly Hills Home by companies controlled by the mysterious Central figure in the scandal Kenneth Weiner a former civil Ian Deputy chief of police. Weiner s California based companies had contracts with the Detroit police that were paid out of the secret drug Pur Chase fund. Hart has denied knowing anything about Weiner s rent payments for his daughter and City officials say in s still not Clear whether any Money from the drug Purchase fund went for the rent payments. But investigators for the Fri and the internal Revenue sen ice work ing with a Federal grand jury arc no trying to determine exactly what happened to the Money and arc trying 1�track Down the elusive we incr. The scandal has received so much Al tension in the Detroit Media thai Ste phen Markman. The . Attorney for Detroit took the unusual step last week of acknowledging the existence of a fed eral investigation into the Case. A former College professor and reputed expert on Ami terrorism Weiner served As a civilian anti terrorism expert for the Detroit police until 1986, when a Federal investigation of his allegedly questionable investment activities in suburban Detroit forced him to resign City officials say. Hart and Young Are now seeking to distance themselves from Weiner and agreed late monday night to turn Over checks and other financial records from the secret fund that the Detroit Cit Council had demanded for its own investigation. Young has refused to take Hart off Active duty during the investigation. The mayor still stands by chief Hart a spokesman said. There has been a lot of innuendo but you Are presumed inno cent until you Are proven