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...national spotlight trains on people such as Larry Hogue, a chronic mental patient and crack abuser who terrorized Manhattan's Upper West Side, or Andres Huang, the transient accused of building the campfire that recently set off a raging blaze in California. "About two years ago, we began to see what is almost a national arms race to criminalize homelessness," says Madeleine Stoner, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California. "People are beginning to fear for their safety." Concurs Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, the man charged by the Clinton Administration with devising...
Lost in the rush to shed collective guilt, however, is the distinction between the majority of the homeless, who require only temporary shelter, and the chronic street people -- the 15% or so of the unhoused population who are the most unstable, the most sick and often the most visible. Also obscured is the inevitable fact that herding the homeless out of one neighborhood only forces them to take shelter elsewhere. Some communities, acknowledging that reality, are seeking a proper balance of compassion and practicality...
...Despite low incomes and poor access to medical care, Hispanics appear to have mortality rates from major chronic illnesses like respiratory disease, cancer and heart disease that are between 25% and 33% lower than the rates for other white Americans. Researchers speculate that one reason for the discrepancy is the stronger family ties among Hispanics...
...candor may stem from desperation. There are chronic food shortages (except in tourist hotels) and a virtual absence of such necessities as toilet paper and toothpaste. The capital's cityscape is bleak. "Havana is absolutely empty at night. There are no cars, no lights and no people on the streets, except for prostitutes," McGeary says. Yet most Cubans refuse to lose hope. Their vitality is what adds so much intrigue to the unfolding saga of the western hemisphere's last remaining Communist outpost...
...faced leader of the neofascist Italian Social Movement, Gianfranco Fini, 41. He contended his party best responds to public demands for law and order, immigration controls and restoration of the death penalty. The top two vote getters in Naples, the city that has come to symbolize southern Italy's chronic poverty and lawlessness, were Antonio Bassolino, a 46-year-old veteran communist who had the backing of the leftists and the Greens, and the neofascist party's Alessandra Mussolini, 30, granddaughter of dictator Benito Mussolini and niece of Sophia Loren. In Genoa and Venice the leftists surprisingly forced runoffs against...