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...gunpoint," says City Commissioner John Rodstrom. He proposes spending more money to help street people, "but we are caught between a rock and a hard place. We don't want to make it too attractive for vagrants to come here." In Yonkers, N.Y., the Calvary Center Church has run afoul of the city administration by sheltering the homeless, some of them minorities, in a largely white residential neighborhood. If the two parties cannot agree on a new location for the shelter, says the Rev. John Gould of Calvary, "it's going...
...guarantee of peace. Although it is not difficult to absorb the rules, which 14 sings on the wall set forth (no loitering, no smoking in these booths at such and such a time, no food or drinks on the machines, no, no, no), you can easily fall afoul of Tommy's unwritten code. Says Jeffrey A. Edelstein '84-5, "One of the things that makes Tommy's so special is that a longtime patron such as myself can be so rudely treated." John, one of the countermen, flexes his heavily tattoed forearms and says with an ironic grin. "Where else...
...restive slums remained open, a change from previous protest demonstrations. University students held anti-Pinochet demonstrations on several campuses, but the crowds were small by past standards. Several leaders of the five-party Alianza Democratica, the main opposition group, did not endorse the protest for fear of running afoul of the siege order's ban on public gatherings; nonetheless, about ten Alianza leaders lined up in front of Santiago's cathedral and sang the national anthem. As they dispersed, a water cannon lumbered into view and began spraying. "The government can claim a 'military success,' " said...
Sullivan was an ally of Perle's in the bureaucratic struggle, but he was on the wrong side of the Potomac. He ran afoul of colleagues in ACDA and State when he tried to get the Administration to sanction what one official recalls as "a laundry list of every Soviet misdeed since the birth of Lenin, all of them branded as arms-control violations." He was fired from ACDA in. March 1981 but has remained an active, though largely invisible, protagonist in the battle over arms control as an adviser to three conservative Republican Senators: James McClure and Steven...
...with Israel, Naguib was recruited to lead a movement of dissident younger officers, including Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat, aimed at ending the monarchy; after the revolution Naguib was named commander in chief of the armed forces and, later, Prime Minister and President. But he soon ran afoul of Nasser; in 1954 he was forced out of office and placed under house arrest, where he remained until freed by Sadat after Nasser's death...