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...YORK--Members of the Chinatown community are charging a police cover-up following the death last month of a New York University (NYU) student who never regained consciousness after he was struck in the head by a nightstick during an argument with two ex-housing policemen...
Sixth precinct detectives released the officers immediately after questioning but held Chen overnight and charged him with menacing. Chinatown residents said the police listened only to the housing officers and refused to believe Chen. The officers charged that Lin and Chen were drunk and that they hit Lin in self-defense after he attacked them...
...When the Police concluded their first proper American tour in Los Angeles in May, 1979, they turned down a $12,000 offer to play a second night at the 3,300-seat Santa Monica Civic in order to perform at Madame Wong's, a small restaurant in LA's Chinatown which only months before had changed its entertainment policy from Polynesian dancers to local unsigned bands...
MURAG records say First has given no mortgages in four years to residents of Chinatown, the North End, South Boston, Mission Hill, Charlestown and the West End. During the same period, the bank made one home loan in East Boston and one in Roxbury...
...whatever reason, public interest in incest as a subject seems to have increased. Hollywood provides a good index; one survey shows there were six movies about incest in the 1920s, 79 in the '60s. The numbers are still growing. Recent films on the subject include Chinatown, Luna and the made-for-TV Flesh and Blood. But probing a sensitive subject for better understanding is one thing, and justifying incest is quite another...