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...still ablaze. For those who live under the resulting thick, sooty clouds, day seems like night and temperatures are 11 degreesC (20 degreesF) cooler than in places where the sky is clear. Some of the well fires could burn for years, spewing out poisonous fumes that choke the air and rake the throat, particularly when the air is still. The miasma poses a special risk to the very young, the old and the infirm. "There is a real danger to human life," says a Western diplomat in Riyadh. "When the winds stop, a lot of people are going...
...Rosey Grier, an ex-football player who works with impoverished children in Los Angeles, noted that Milken has taught math in public schools and helped raise money for minority businesses. Wrote Grier: "I recognized in him a deep desire to help inner-city residents break free of the strangling choke-hold of poverty and begin to move into a new sphere of existence...
Critics reply that cracking down on gangs is but the latest in a long list of official excuses for the rough-and-ready justice that has become routine in minority neighborhoods. In 1982 the L.A.P.D. was forced to ban the controversial bar-arm choke hold they had been using to apprehend suspects after several people died while in custody. Contends Don Jackson, a former police sergeant in the suburb of Hawthorne who has become a crusader against racially motivated police brutality: "They don't have white kids sit on the curb when they talk to them. They don't have...
Officially, the ravages of pollution in Eastern Europe were classified information, Communism's dirtiest secret. For more than 40 years, as the devastation mounted, only a few officials kept track of the toll. The people could see, smell and sometimes choke on contaminated air and water. They could watch the grime accumulate on their homes and see the vegetation die. But they could not speak about it or protest too loudly, lest they be harassed as dangerous dissidents...
...faltering yen and a plunging Tokyo stock market threaten to choke the country's economy and sap its confidence. -- Brazil learns to live without cash...