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...shocked as Bostonians may be at the epidemic of torching, they should final its caused even more troubling. If it were just the word of a few firebugs or linked to a general increase in crime, one would expect the arson to have centered on the city's most crime-ridden area, Roxbury--especially on hearing that vacant buildings, a common commodity there, were the targets of 70 percent of the fires. (The figures is the main reason the arson took no lives...
...then the action must. The director updates the splendid, rather literary W.H. Auden-Chester Kallmann libretto from 18th century to contemporary England without altering a word of text. Realized by Designer Derek Jarman, the images are vivid and immediate, painted in hard, splashy colors to evoke a drug-and crime-ridden world...
Late last month Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne was boasting that on the first anniversary of her ballyhooed three-week stay in the crime-ridden Cabrini-Green public housing project, "it has been turned around. It's not perfect, but it's better." But Her Honor's moment of glory was clouded. Since January she and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development had been feuding over a HUD audit suggesting that the Chicago Housing Authority, the nation's second largest, with 142,000 tenants in 46,000 units, was among the worst managed...
Melvin's slaying is the most serious incident in the brief and controversial history of the Guardian Angels. Just three years ago, they were the "Magnificent 13," a group of unarmed, street-smart youths who took it upon themselves to patrol New York City's crime-ridden subways. Ghetto residents felt that their presence on trains deterred muggers; transit police thought the red-bereted youths were a nuisance and dismissed Sliwa as a self-promoting vigilante. After a "memorandum of understanding," which assured police cooperation with the Angels, was worked out with New York City Mayor Ed Koch...
...When the FBI issued its annual list of the ten most crime-ridden cities in the nation last September, three of them were in South Florida: Miami (pop. 347,000) was in first place, West Palm Beach (pop. 63,000) was fifth and Fort Lauderdale (pop. 153,000) was eighth. Miami last year had the nation's highest murder rate, 70 per 100,000 residents, and this year's pace has been even higher...