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139th Yaar No. 141 Chicago Tribuna 7 80ten. 'Crack' puts new pop in cocaine market By Steven K. Johnson It sounds more like a brcikfast cereal than a street drug'. But, experts warn, there's nothing sugar-coated about the way the sale and use of "crack" is up in Chicago, or about its effects on users.

The "prize" at the bottom of the crack package is likely to be cocaine dependency, they say. "It's all over the place now. It's probably the most potent addictive frccbasirig method of using the drug, according to a cocaine treatment specialist. The name "crack" comes'from the crackling sound the substance makes when it is smoked. It first appeared in the Chicago area about eight months ago, and Edcnficld estimates that it now makes up about 40 percent of the illegal cocaine market.

"It is fairly well established in the Midwest," agreed James of cocaine abuse. Tuesday night, Michael Darcy, executive director of the Gateway Foundation in Chicago, told the foundation's annual awards dinner that "the number of outpatients we serve who are addicted to cocaine has increased 300 percent in the last two years." And in December, Wayne Wicbel, an epidemiologist with Continued on page 19 stuff on the street today," said Set. Carl Edcnficld of the police Gang Crimes South unit, whose members regularly get a firsthand look at the effects of street drugs. "When people use it, they re getting a jolt like they never had before. Because the rcady-to-smokc cocaine concoction is now being sold in $5 or $10 amounts, it is introducing younger and less affluent buyers to cocaine and the Butler, director of admissions at Lifeline, a private Chicago cocaine treatment program.

"Six months ago we rarely saw a crack user, and now we're seeing crack users all the time," said Butler, a recovering cocaine addict. At any given time, he estimates, more than 10 percent of Lifeline's 30 patients are crack addicts. The surge in crack's popularity coincides with a surge in Illinois Vital signs up IsilttlftllUUMBifcjM Tribune photo by Ed Wagner Jr. Sox win 6th straight but economy gtill unsteady from Chicago Tribune wlrat The economy was more robust in the first quarter than initially Stocks soar on hopes of interest-rate cuts. In Business Harold Balnes beats out a bunt during the White Sox's sixth straight victory, a 2-1 triumph over Toronto.

Sec. 4, pg. 1. Sizzling Braves drub Cubs Keith Moreland's error at third base helps Atlanta to its fifth straight win, an 8-3 victory over the Cubs. Sec.

4, pg. 1. Just a baby-faced Angel Meet California super-rookie Wally Joy-ner, who leads the majors in homers, RBIs and innocence. Sec. 4, pg.

1. Refrigerator well-stocked William Perry reports to the Bears mini-camp at 310, 325 or 330, and Mike Ditka "I don't like it." Sec. 4, pg. 1. reported, but the newfound strength resulted from an ominous inventory buildup, economists said Tuesday.

The bearish signal prompted a bond market rallywhich, along with sharply lower oil prices, sent the Dow Jones industrial average sharply higher. In a surprise upward revision of an early estimate, the Commerce Department reported that the gross national product grew at a 3.7 percent annual rate in the first quarter, up from the estimate of 3.2 percent. It was the best performance since the first quarter of 1985 and represented a sharp rebound from growth at an annual rate of 0.7 percent in the 1985 fourth quarter. The increases are after the effects of inflation. However, the inventory buildup, which indicates manufacturers are not selling what they produce, does not bode well for the second quarter.

Many economists expect this will subtract from economic growth in the April-June period as businesses are forced to work down unwanted inventories, especially a record level of cars. Stock traders, motivated by the more immediate prospect of lower interest rates, appeared to focus on declining prices, especially a sharp pullback in crude oil prices. Oil futures prices tumbled more than $1 a barrel to the $16 level Tuesday, erasing' gains of Continued on page 10 1 AP Laaarptiolo S. African students protest raifjs New Saudi arms sale try The administration, in a late effort to save its arms sale to Saudi Arabia, offers to modify the weapons package. Page 3.

Democrats sting Du Page House Democrats move to strip heavily Republican Du Page County of control over the Du Page Airport. Sec. 2, pg. 1. At the University of Witwatersrand, Johannes- their government's raids on suspected guerrilla burg, students rallied Tuesday to condemn bases in neighboring countries.

Story, Page 3. 'Hands' ccros3 CIA shifts aim to network for news leaks The event 'Hands Across America' wii try to link 5.5 million people along route through 16 states and District of Columbia BTime: May 25, 1986, starting at 2 a Goal: Raise $50 minion to fight hunger and hometessness In U.S, NIU chiefs job shaky Board members meet with controversial Northern Illinois University President Clyde Wingfleld amid rowing speculation hat he will be asked to resign. Sec. 2, pg. 1.

xv jLrs, I Lake Michigan L-u Fullerton 1 Oak St I Grand Beach I Lincoln cWf 5 1 5 LSI! Wingfield KJJNOIS Malm i i 1 ii SprhjWd Munoz backs dropout bill Chicago Board of Education President George Munoz backs federal legislation aimed at preventing dropouts. Page 5. More time for daylight The Senate votes to extend Daylight Saving Time by about a month, rejecting farm-state opposition. Page 6. rffwfel i To Hammond 7w 1 I Ws ''(' 1 crzrilSL 1 1 To Kankakee! C00K i 2rvT I 1 3 Tribune photo by Phil Qraar The 1800 block of South Michigan Avenue where the "Hands" program may nave a gap.

By Douglas Frantz and James O'Shea Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON CIA Director William Casey ignored a broadcast last November on the Ronald Pclton spy case that was almost identical in content to one that he recommended Monday be the basis for a criminal espionage prosecution. Last Nov. 27, following a pretrial hearing in the Pelton case, NBC-TV broadcast a story that said Pclton may have given the Soviet Union information about the ability of American submarines to eavesdrop on Soviet harbors through a classified project known as Ivy Bells. An NBC official said privately that neither the CIA nor any other government agency raised an objection after the November report on the government's prosecution of Pclton, a former communications specialist for the National Security Agency. Monday morning, as jury selection opened for the trial in Baltimore, NBC broadcast a second report, again noting that Pclton was suspected of providing the Soviets with key details of the submarine eavesdropping program known as Ivy Bells.

Within hours of the second broadcast, Casey accused NBC of violating secrecy laws and asked the Justice Department to consider bringing criminal charges against the network. This inconsistency and others have left many within the administration and in Congress confused about whether Casey's objective is to protect national security data or establish a court case that could deter news organizations from publishing what he believes is secret information. His decision to formally recommend pros-Continued on page 2 Chicago Tribuna Oraphlo; Souros: Hand Aero Amtrtoa reality Hands Across America getting grip on Quotas on machine tools? President Reagan says he will seek voluntary import quotas on machine tools produced by four nations. Sec. 3, pg.

1. More trims at Amoco Amoco says it will cut 400 more employees by year-end, including "relatively senior-level people." Sec. 3, pg. 1 I been found to fill up rural areas of Iroquois and Macoupin Counties, for example. About 200,000 lllinoisans have paid for a place in line, but organizers, who need 500,000 to fill the state, arc urging others to show up Sunday and hold hands for free.

Mayor Washington said he will lead 1,000 city workers in holding hands on a stretch of Michigan Avenue from Congress Parkway to 16th Street. Oprah Winfrey and Walter Payton Continued on page 2 day, that hopes to raise $50 million for the homeless and hungry. Participants, including many who have paid $10 or more for the privilege of joining the line, arc to link hands for 15 minutes and sing "We Arc the World," "Hands Across America" and "America the Beautiful." But though Hands Across America was billed as a coast-to-coast link of Americans, organizers now arc conceding they will have gaps in the chain. In Illinois, not enough people have By R. Bruce Dold and Michael Arndt Hands Across America won't even be Hands Across Illinois, but Sunday's massive effort to have 5.5 million pco-' pic link up along a route is barreling along toward certification as a Big Event.

National organizer Ken Kragcn met with Mayor Harold Washington and reporters Tuesday to promote the hand holding, planned for 2 p.m. Sun Two brothers-in-law from Italy and one ail-American jazz trio bring their special joys to the city. Reviews, Sec. 2, pg. 8.

CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Wednesday: Partly sunny, windy; highs 62, lows 40. Thursday: Partly sunny; nighs 65. System, like vigilantes, reaches deep into lives CASTRO'S This is the last in a series on Cuba as the island-nation experiences its second quarter-century under Fidel Castro. News Sec. 1 Stephen Chapman 23 Editorial 22 INC Clarence Page 23 Perspective 23 Point of view 22 Mike Royko 3 William Satire 23 Weather 24 Chlcagoland Sec.

2 Almanac 6 Obituaries 6.7 Business Sec. 3 Bottom line 1 Business ticker 1 George Lazarus 7 Classified ad are in Sports Sec. 4 Briets 2 Bernie Lincicome 1 Odds ins ....2 Racing 7 Scoreboard 6,7 Foou 8' Tempo Sec. 5 Bridge 10 Comic 10,11 Crossword puzzle 10 Dear Abby 9 Bob Greene 1 Horoscope 11 How to keep well 9 Movie ads 4 TV and radio 8 Style Sec. 7 Sec.

6 But their role, indeed the whole question of civil rights and political repression here, is a topic of hot debate. Is Cuban society "very, very tight, tighter than Russia, as a State Department official says, or "more -open than anything in Eastern Europe," as Prof. William LcoGrandc of American University in Washington says? Is it "very bad," as one critical foreigner here says, or "not a big as another, more sympa- By R.C. Longworth Chicago Tribune HAVANA They look like ordinary men and women, standing on Havana street corners late at night or quietly pacing their turf, waiting and watching for trouble. But why would ordi-nary men and women be hanging out on the block at that time of night? They arc vigilantes, and they arc assigned by their local Cn- Cuba still vibrant, colorful.

Focus, back page of Sec. 4. thctic foreigner says, contending that the considerable vigilance against "counterrevolutionaries" doesn't affect the lives of most Cubans? On the one hand, there arc "no free trade unions, no right Continued on paRC 20 mittcc for the Defense of the Revolution to be out and about, a visible deterrent to anyone with mischief on his mind. The committees, like the vi gilantes, stand at the center of an extraordinary system of control that reaches into all sectors of Cuban Jifor-lhc classroom, factdry, club, even the home..