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...teacher in New York's Chinatown, "they used to think you were Fu Manchu or Charlie Chan. ; Then they thought you must own a laundry or restaurant. Now they think all we know how to do is sit in front of a computer." Says Thomas Law, a student at Brooklyn Law School: "We're sick and tired of being seen as the exotic Orientals...
Sherman Suchow has undergone quite a transformation. Born in Brooklyn 59 years ago, he now calls himself Charles Merrill Mount, affects an English accent, carries a walking stick and sports classic three-piece suits. An art historian and portrait painter, Mount stands accused of pursuing a third career as well: pilferer of rare historical documents. Last week the FBI arrested him for possessing a 1904 letter signed by Novelist Henry James that had been missing from the Library of Congress. Five days earlier Mount had been charged with stealing letters written by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill. Said Special...
...until January of this year that the National Urban League addressed the problem in a report on AIDS and American blacks by Dr. Beny J. Primm, executive director of Brooklyn's Addiction Research and Treatment Corp. Primm is furious about the foot dragging and denial among blacks. "There is a complacency," he charges, "and perhaps a fear of being called a racist if they point the finger at their own. Better to be called racist now than conspiratorially genocidal five years from...
...commonest accusations was that if Goetz had been black and his victims white, he would have been severely punished, which may be true. But few recall the case of Austin Weeks, then 29, a black who was riding a subway train through Brooklyn in April 1980 when he was accosted by two white youths, both 17. One of them, Terry Zilimbinaks, leaned over Weeks in his seat and uttered a number of racial insults. Weeks took out an unlicensed pistol, according to police, and shot Zilimbinaks dead. Like Goetz, Weeks slipped away unnoticed. Unlike Goetz, he did not turn himself...
Tudor is going to New York to act. She will get an apartment in Brooklyn with a friend, hunt out a temporary job, and then start auditioning. "I've allotted two years. I'm going to use it if it kills me," she says...