Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, the Paraiso attack, in which the guerrillas lost only ten of their men, was both a setback to President Jose Napoleon Duarte's Christian Democratic government and a reminder to the U.S. that shoring up democracies in Central America is neither cheap nor painless. Drawing further attention to the price of the U.S. involvement in the Salvadoran war, the CIA announced last week that one of its employees had been killed in a helicopter crash in the eastern part of the country. Though the CIA did not identify him, the dead man was believed to be Richard Krobock...
Nobody fears urban crime more than the urban poor. In Watts and other rough neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, residents are terrorized daily by gangs and gunfire, living in a virtual war zone where murder is the leading cause of death among young men. Since 1981 residents have twice voted for higher taxes to pay for more police officers, but each time the citywide referendum was defeated by voters in the more affluent and better-policed areas of Los Angeles...
...ghetto may decide to go it alone. Local activists have proposed a $21 million property tax levied against South Central residents to pay for 300 additional city police officers. If the measure passes this June, it will mark the first time that residents within a section of any major U.S. city have taxed themselves to pay for more police for their own neighborhood...
...proposal is the brainchild of L.A. Councilman Robert Farrell, a South Central resident who believes his area is being shortchanged by the I've-got-mine attitude that prevails in safer parts of the city. "The levels of violent crime in South Central Los Angeles are just no longer acceptable," says Farrell. "My car has been broken into, my house has been burglarized, and my wife has been robbed at gunpoint. No other members of the city council would put up with this...
...approved by two-thirds of South Central voters, the plan will create a special tax-assessment district affecting 500,000 mostly poor residents in a 43-sq.-mi. area. The 300 new officers will be assigned to the four Los Angeles police divisions that patrol South Central. Though these outposts represent only 22% of the department's 18 divisions, they handled 44% of the city's 831 homicides last year. South Central residents are so fearful that many have expressed willingness to pay the estimated $148 annual tab for the average homeowner...