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They call it "crack" on the a t oa t and
"rock" on the We t oa t. Whatever it
name, thi ref10ed, mokable form of co-
caine may be the mo t addictive narcotic
ever old on the treet of merica.
Deep under Lake to in north\\'e tern
Cameroon, the earth belched. A bubble of
calding ga ro e to the urface and the
wind carried it aero the land. Within min-
ute , more than 1700 people \\'ere dead,
burned by team and cho ed by carbon
dioxide and toxic ga e . mong theca ual-
tie ""a a large group of cow .
u tr Force and avy jet attacked five
target 10 ide Libya under cover of dar -
ne 10 pril, 19 6, delivering a re pon e to -
hat Pre ident Reagan called the "mon-
trou brutality" of Libyan-backed terror-
i m. Among the target ""a the Libyan a-
val cademy, hown above, located 10 a
uburb of Tripoli.