Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handsome silver-haired businessman stretched out his 6-ft. 4-in., 170-lb. frame on the metal bunk in Cell 2 B4 of "the glass house," the downtown Los Angeles jail where male prostitutes, muggers and murderers are kept in holding pens. Arriving in the custody of FBI agents around 7:30 p.m., too late for Tuesday night's dinner, he disdained the tray of eggs, hash browns and sausage that was eventually offered. Throughout the night, he rarely slept; he just stared at the dank walls of the six-bed cell, which he occupied alone, and at the thick...
...announcing that they were federal agents. They told De Lorean he was under arrest. One of them read him his constitutional rights. Recalled an FBI official: "He was calmer than they had expected him to be." De Lorean was hustled into an unmarked federal car, booked at the downtown Los Angeles jail and led to a six-prisoner cell...
...trainee electrician at the steel mill who had been shot in a scuffle with a plainclothesman. He was the 15th Pole known to have been killed since the imposition of martial law last December, and if Solidarity activists had no desire to confront the forces ranged against them in downtown Nowa Huta last week, they did use his burial rites to send a clear message to the military regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski. Referring to imprisoned Leader Lech Walesa's refusal to cooperate with the government, a crudely printed sign outside the steel mill challenged workers with the reminder...
...sawed-off shotgun, and shot Wright twice in the chest. The Irish National Liberation Army, a Marxist splinter group of the outlawed pro-Catholic Irish Republican Army, claimed responsibility for the attack. The next day James Molyneaux, leader of the Protestant Official Unionist Party, fled his headquarters in downtown Belfast minutes before a bomb planted by the INLA exploded. On the morning of the elections, Molyneaux barely avoided a fire bomb left by the same terrorist group on the windowsill of the house in which he was staying...
...underprivileged to lessons in offshore engineering for the gifted. In Boston, the Bank of New England donated $300,000 for a five-year program to recognize and reward outstanding teachers. In Atlanta, Rich's department store has helped start an academy in an unused portion of its downtown store to teach basic courses as well as black history to 100 high school dropouts and potential dropouts. The Dolores Canning Co. in East Los Angeles provides monthly prizes for a good-citizen program at the nearby Hammel Street Elementary School. Says Principal Charles Lavagnino: "The Dolores people help...