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(AP Photo)Comedian Dick Gregory joined in the rally against crack cocaine and heroin dealers.Vigils set up on street corners in New York CityBy GARY GATELY c.1986 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK — Leaders of 60 predominantly black churches, declaring that crack and other drugs represented “a new form of genocide. Monday set up all-night vigils on five street corners in the city where drug dealing is rampant.The ministers also began 24-hour vigils at their churches, where recovered drug addicts will counsel addicts. and established a hot line from each of the churches to the offices of the state's special narcotics prosecutor, Sterling Johnson Jr Just as in the past we fought slavery and we fought racism, we are going to fight drugs and the total indifference of those in power. said the actor Ossie Davis, chairman of the United Black Church Appeal.Davis and the ministers joined City Councilman Wendell Foster. Sen. Alforse M. D Amato and the entertainer Dick Gregory on the steps of City Hall to begin what they called a grass-roots campaign against drugs.The ministers' move came a davafter John Cardinal O’Connor, the ersNOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Loan No. 248933945/SHUMAN T.S. No. 1-53400 UNIT CODE IWESTWCOD ASSOCIATES as duly ap-pointed Trustee under the following described deed of trust WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH AND/OR THE CASHIERS OR CERTIFIED CHECKS SPECIFIED IN CIVIL CODE SECTION 2924h (payable at the time of sale in lawful money of the United States) all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property hereinafter described:TRUSTOR: LENARD A. SHUMAN and SYLVIA G. SHUMAN; BENEFICIARY: MASON McDUFFIE INVESTMENT CO. recorded March 16, 1979 as Instr. No. 3791Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, announced plans to increase drug counseling in the archdiocese's high schools. Also under consideration, the Cardinal said, is an antidrug rally involving thousands of youths at Yankee or Shea Stadium.Foster, who is the pastor of Christ Church in the Bronx, said he had not consulted with the cardinal but would welcome working with the Catholic Church in a joint antidrug campaign.Last week, the House Select Committee on Narcotics Control and Abuse held hearings in Manhattan on the rising use of crack, a potent cocaine derivative. The committee's chairman. Charles B. Rangel. D-N.Y.. called on New York officials last week to join those in other states in urging the Reagan administration to take stronger measures to curb the flow of drugs.‘We are engaged in a new form of genocide. Foster told about 200 people gathered yesterday outside City Hall. - As devastating as drugs may be in the white community, they are 10 times worse in the black community.■»For blacks, as a community.drugs like crack and heroin are the worst problem we've seen since slavery. he said.After the speeches at City Hall. Foster. Davis, the boxer Dwight Muhammad Qawi and about 25 ministers took their campaign to the Bronx, the first of five stops, one in each borough, where they vowed to reclaim the streets from drug deal-Outside the Mount Sinai Baptist Church, at 170th Street and College Avenue, several hundred residentsgathered on streets that they said were usually abuzz with the familiar cries of dealers peddling crack, heroin and marijuana.•We've got to ask the law-enforcement community if a handful of humble black folk with no weapons can make a corner drug-free, how come you can t do it? said Gregory, drawing loud applause from the resi- • dentsThe group later staged sim ilar rallies at oher corners in Harlem, Brooklyn. Queens and Staten Island, with minister remaining at each of the intersections throughout the night, organizers said.Unless the federal, state and city governments are willing to put crack, other drugs and their attendant problems at the very top of their agendas, we are going to stay in the streets. Davis said.Monday's rallies and vigils marked what the ministers called the beginning of an antidrug campaign that would reach from theslums to Citv Hall. Albany and Washington. Organizers also saidthey planned to stage a rally outside the United Nations Building in the next few weeks and would try to meet with the leaders of drug-producing countries in an effort to reduce the flow of drugs into the United States.
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