Time Magazine Contents Page May 9, 1988

Vol. 131 No. 19

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COVER: For many youngsters, crack dealing is the ghetto' s job program

Like most kids, they crave the beautiful things that only big money can buy. But with few jobs or other opportunities open to them, growing numbers of underclass children -- some as young as nine or ten -- are choosing wildly lucrative and grotesquely violent lives of crime. Crack' s corruption of the young is becoming a millstone around America' s neck. See NATION.

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NATION: Twenty years later, Bobby Kennedy lives on in America' s imagination

Hero or opportunist? Generous or ruthless? Bobby still evokes such questions....

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