Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the Soviets will not seriously negotiate until just before the U.S. missiles begin going into Western Europe and perhaps not until after deployment has actually started. The reason: the Kremlin must first be convinced that demonstrations by the European antinuclear movement will not be strong enough to block the installation of the U.S. missiles. In other words, Moscow is hoping for a different sort of zero-zero outcome: no American missiles, no concessions from the U.S.S.R...
...Cadillac into the neighborhood known as Alphabet Town on Manhattan's Lower East Side. This menacing tangle of burned-out buildings, clammy tenements and garbage-strewn vacant lots is one of the country's most notorious drug marketplaces. Dealers crowd the blighted 15-by four-block "town" 24 hours a day, dispensing cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, angel dust and an array of other drugs. The Captain, in his 40s, is a white, affluent tradesman from Brooklyn. He got his nickname because he once owned a yacht. He and his girlfriend, a pink-sugar blond he calls Snowdrop, come into...
...other white middle-class jerks come here Friday and Saturday nights when the heroin is cut and the cocaine drowned with baby laxative," says the Captain in a voice as sharp as a razor blade. Three police cars scream past, their flashing lights turning the rain puddles red. A block ahead, the police swarm into a building. The Captain watches: "It's safer to score when the cops are all around. They usually let you go after they bust you and being busted is better than being dead." Last year the Captain was shot five times in the chest...
...leave to find where the Weathermen have gone. It isn't easy. Their line of march is only about half a block long, and they move so fast that by the time you find them they're either on top of you or gone again...
Schochet Associates are currently also developing a block in Central Square and rehabilitating an office building across from the towers, near the entrance to the MBTA Red line extension now under construction. Councilor David A. Wylie said last night that the owner of the company is probably trying to hold on to as much land in the area as possible, because when the subway extension opens, "his buildings will be on prime land and their value will skyrocket...