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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city officials had decided that the house was a public nuisance and began trying to evict its residents. All belong to a self-styled back-to-nature cult called MOVE (according to members, the name does not stand for anything). Last week the odd state of siege-which has cost Philadelphia some $1.2 million for round-the-clock police surveillance-approached a showdown when a city judge issued warrants for the arrest of 21 MOVE members...
Conceivably, Dostoyevsky might have been intrigued by the circumstances of the wedding itself, which, as Greek newspapers reported with some acidity, was "short, simple and cheap." It cost $2.15. The couple pulled up to a Moscow "wedding palace" in a battered, lemon-yellow Chevy Nova lent by a Greek diplomat. As a piano and string quartet played Mendelssohn's Wedding March, they entered a dark-paneled chamber. The bride and groom promised Klara Remeshkova, the equivalent of a justice of the peace, that they would preserve their love for all their lives, be faithful and loyal and stand together...
Today, according to the report, a five-mile wedge of Seveso has been successfully detoxified, at a cost of $32 million, by government teams that cleared and buried entire acres of plants and even topsoil. Most of the 736 residents who were originally evacuated have been able to return to their homes, but 285 are still locked out of a 215-acre area enclosed by the yellow fence. That inner bulls-eye remains blighted by concentrated "leopard spots" of contamination and continues to defy all attempts at purification. "It may be a wasteland forever-we just don't know...
Refugees from the forbidden zone have been relocated in temporary accommodations near by, compensated for lost property and produce, and promised new houses equal to those they abandoned. The process has already cost Givaudan $11 million. Even so, says Housewife Caterina Rivolta, 54, "I'd give anything to move back. My husband and I saved for 16 years to buy our home. Nothing will ever replace...
Tonight I'll be on that hill 'cause I can't stop, I'll be on that hill with everything I got, Lives on the line where dreams are found and lost, I'll be there on time and I'll pay the cost, For wanting things that can only be found In the darkness on the edge of town...