Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earns his modest income playing at Holyoke Center and one lunchtime a week at the Downtown Crossing. Occasionally he is hired by someone who sees him playing in the street. Last spring he performed at the freshman picnic for the Freshman Dean's Office and during commencement at the Kennedy School for the 10th reunion...
...east of the city, is torn by Chinese thugs. Orange County, home to tens of thousands of Indochinese immigrants, has a severe extortion problem. Hispanic gangs, some of them using identifying tattoos and hand signals, have spread throughout the area. The Mojados (wetbacks) specialize in small-time crime in downtown Los Angeles: pickpocketing and robbing motorists at knifepoint in underground garages. "It's find a buddy and go to Fifth and Hill for an easy hit or two," says Police Sergeant Joe Suarez...
...Salvador, six to ten gunmen leaped out of a pickup truck and opened fire on diners enjoying an evening meal at four adjoining sidewalk cafes on a downtown street. Killed: four off-duty U.S. Marine guards from the nearby American embassy, two American businessmen, five Salvadorans, a Chilean and a Guatemalan. At least 15 people were injured. Witnesses said the gunmen, disguised as Salvadoran army regulars, concentrated their fire on the Marines and even hunted one down in a back room. The killers are presumed to be Marxist rebels, turning to urban terrorism because their guerrilla war in the jungles...
...some critics charged that the inclusion of terrorists damaged the credibility of Israel's insistence that it would not bargain with enemies who attack civilians. Amid widespread feeling that another such swap would completely undermine the no-deal rule, some 50,000 Israelis staged an angry protest march in downtown Tel Aviv. Some carried signs urging Peres not to free the detainees under any circumstances. Jerusalem is also enmeshed in a controversy over the legality under which the Shi'ite detainees were brought to Israel. Many nations, including the U.S., contend that Israel violated Article 49 of the Geneva Convention...
Hughes' routine is exacting and precise. He reserves his Mondays for museum shows. Tuesdays he goes to Manhattan's established uptown galleries. He saves Wednesdays for the new, more adventurous downtown shows, and the rest of the week is usually devoted to writing. He travels throughout the U.S. and to Europe two or three times a year. "I try to keep some balance between Manhattan and the rest of the world," he says...