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When people began to compete fiercely for affordable housing, the ones to lose out were the least resourceful: the teenage mothers, the addicted, the abused, the illiterate, the unskilled. The explosion of crack use in the '80s did immeasurable damage; once people were addicted, what employer or landlord would touch them? "Ronald Reagan and the housing cuts are a convenient way to look at the homeless problem," says Mike Neely, an engineer in Los Angeles, who squandered all he had, including his home and family, on cocaine before he turned his life around and founded the Homeless Outreach Project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Answers At Last | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

Other cities were having the same experience, until it became impossible to sustain the illusion that all a pregnant, crack-addicted teenage prostitute with AIDS needed was a place to call home. From that admission was born the concept of linkage. Rather than merely providing a shelter, homeless advocates are weaving a web. By combining detoxification programs, job training, day care, parenting classes, health care and social services under one roof, they can help the street people who are unwilling or unable to travel all over town to find the services they need -- if those services exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Answers At Last | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

...changed tack and denied that any prosecution or sentencing of dissidents had taken place. At the same time, he rejected foreign inquiries on the prosecution of state criminals as meddling in China's internal affairs. He decried speculation that the Communists were taking advantage of the gulf crisis to crack down on dissidents as "an act of rumormongering and mudslinging with ulterior motives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Justice in a Hurry | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

Street Beat's clients are female; some have up to 20 clients a night. "The girls out here work; they buy drugs; they sleep; they are like robots," says Mary, 31, a cherub-faced woman who walks the streets in order to support her own and her mother's crack habit. Most work for very little money. "Sometimes they go for a trick for $2 for a hit of crack because they are hurting," says Daniel Zayas, 32, Street Beat field supervisor. And then there are the constant dangers. So far 17 of Street Beat's clients have been killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City A Beacon On Lonely Street | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

Since scouting is bound to such traditions, the movement faces the challenge of joining the fast-paced '90s without losing values that should endure. Quaint slogans like "Be prepared" and "Do a good turn daily" may in fact be useful in an age of Middle East crises and crack cocaine. Inner-city scout troops now meet in welfare hotels, in juvenile halls, even on ghetto street corners, where mobile homes serve as assembly halls. "We're not using the Norman Rockwell image anymore," says chief scout executive Ben Love, 60, who has initiated campaigns to combat five "unacceptables": hunger, illicit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cimarron, New Mexico Bears, Bucks And Boy Scouts | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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