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...SANCTUARY CITY," Councilman Alfred E. Vellucci labelled Cambridge last week, referring to its national reputation for sheltering the homeless. But while the city boasts of benevolence, the reality is largely a sanctuary of cold doorways, heating vents, and park benches...
Hanford, Calif., is a farm community, the kind of place where people know each other by name and trust each other by nature. "You can go downtown without a dime in your pocket, do your shopping and come back to pay later," says City Councilman J. Brent Madill. "It's not faceless like L.A." In any town, the brutal killing of a teenage girl leaves a deep mark, but in Hanford the wound remains, 24 years after the crime. And now the U.S. Supreme Court has rubbed the wound open again all these years later...
...Where's the justice?" asks Councilman Madill. "Is there any justice?" Most of Hanford believes little attention was given to deterring the larger evil. "It's an absolute shame that the Supreme Court has to take such a gruesome crime to make a social statement," says Deputy Kings County Planner Bill Zumwalt, who had been a member of Marlene's high school class. Joan Pegues, assistant city editor of the Hanford Sentinel, puts it more simply: "When you say 'Hillery' around here, people turn purple...
...failing that, appeal the jury verdict. Hedgecock also faces legal action by California's Fair Political Practices Commission, which is trying to assess him $975,000 in fines for an unprecedented 400 campaign-law violations. Even after last week's verdict, Hedgecock was not without support. Said City Councilman Mike Gotch: "I think he's been an excellent mayor. I'm sorry that...
That evening, hundreds of anxious parents gathered in the school's airless auditorium. They chanted, "Two, four, six, eight, no AIDS in any grades!" and waved placards proclaiming OUR CHILDREN WANT GOOD GRADES, NOT AIDS! Local politicians stirred the pot. "This is not meant to scare you," City Councilman Joseph Lisa of Queens began, "but leading medical researchers throughout the world truly believe that this epidemic may well be the most serious epidemic in recorded medical history." Chimed in State Assemblyman Frederick Schmidt: "There is no medical authority who can say with authority that AIDS cannot be transmitted in school...