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...Little Italy, next door, where one can sit at a side walk café with a cappuccino and time-warp 50 years back to some Neapolitan atmosphere. Ninth Avenue from 38th to 53rd streets is a rapid collage of Italian, Greek, Philippine and African shops and stalls. Yorkville around 86th Street and Third Avenue is somewhat homogenized now, but abounds with German gourmet shops, Irish bars and Hungarian restaurants. Harlem remains the capital of black America. On its eastern edge is Spanish Harlem, with its large concentration of Puerto Ricans. Down in Brooklyn are Atlantic Avenue's Lebanese...
...final public address, given at her 86th birthday party. Anthony rose to her feet and proclaimed: "The fight must not cease; you must see that it does not stop. Young blood, fresh with enthusiasm and with all the enlightenment of the new century, must now carry on the contest. There have been others just as true and devoted to the cause. . . . with such women consecrating their lives--failure is impossible...
...86th person to die in 22 months of a vicious drug war that has engulfed Nuevo Laredo. The sprawling Mexican border town (pop. 160,000) has become the principal point for smuggling into the U.S. Mexican marijuana, South American cocaine and European heroin funneled through Latin America. Upwards of $1 million worth of drugs passes through Nuevo Laredo to U.S. buyers each week...
...charges of racial bias stem from Gimbel's alleged refusal to live up to an agreement made with Harlem Fight Back to institute an on-the-job training program for black and Puerto Rican workers at the construction site of a new Gimbels store located at 86th Street and Lexington Ave, in New York City...
...sustained bombing continued, the U.S. command disclosed the loss of another plane taking part in the campaign. It was the 86th aircraft announced lost in Laos by American officials since March...