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...jumped 14% last year. Almost every white claims to know someone who has been mugged or robbed by young black thugs; karate and gun clubs thrive in the white suburbs. White commuters call the city "Indian country," never argue with black motorists and avoid walking downtown except in broad daylight. During the Christmas shopping season, police loudspeakers warned: "Walk in twos after dark, keep your hands on your purse, stay away from alleys, and have a merry Christmas...
...believe that we can't turn this thing around next year," Lee said last week in reference to the 5-10-1 dual record. "I see daylight ahead, and if the recruiting goes well, we're going to have a rough team in a couple of years...
Violence is commonplace in much of Latin America, but few of the continent's countries can match Guatemala in that department. In 1968 Communist guerrillas in Guatemala City murdered two U.S. military advisers, then machine-gunned U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein to death in broad daylight. During the recent election campaign they killed at least nine security officers, a mayoral candidate, a newspaper editor and a retired police chief. On the eve of last week's elections, they kidnaped Foreign Minister Alberto Fuentes Mohr, 41, forcing the government to release a 24-year-old urban guerrilla leader...
Tarter and the rest of the staff are serious about providing "arts and entertainment" information for the paper's college age-and-older reading audience, and they print lengthy schedules of the area's film showings, exhibitions, music and theatre ("after dark, in broad daylight, all over metropolitan Boston-the area's most complete, accurate listings," the paper jokingly advertises). Instead of featuring long film reviews, it prints 15 to 20 short reviews in each issue...
...reservation, he reported: "The land is like a painting ?hills covered with ponderosa pine, snow-capped mountains in the distance, sprawling valleys filled with thick forests and rushing streams. In the midst of all this, there's a one-room shack with a corrugated metal roof that shows daylight from every angle. This is Judy's house. Judy is in her mid-20s, stocky but not fat, and rather pretty. But she drinks a lot, gets into fights when she does, and often ends up in jail...