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Residents deserted downtown Ascuncion streets Thursday when firefights involving cannon, recoilless rifles and heavy machine guns broke out in the most serious incident against Stroessner since he took power...
...boiled over. On the night of the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and as the city was preparing to play host to the Super Bowl, a Colombian-born policeman $ shot and killed a black motorcyclist speeding through the streets of Overtown, a ghetto just northwest of downtown. A passenger riding on the rear of the motorcycle was fatally injured in the resulting crash. The incident triggered two nights of arson, looting and random shootings that spread from Overtown to the nearby black ghetto Liberty City...
...drugs over the Washington Monument instead of fireworks. When the smoke clears, it is discovered that President Bush has painted the White House in day-glo paisley, and the Pentagon has given out free chemical weapon souvenirs to tourists. D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is found wandering dazed through the downtown streets, but no one finds that out of the ordinary...
Mayor Xavier Suarez, one of the targets of rock and bottle throwing Monday night, spent yesterday meeting with Black leaders and residents of Overtown, a neighborhood of rundown, low-slung apartment buildings and trash-strewn vacant lots, just north of downtown Miami...
...mayor. Police and federal prosecutors are investigating the latest in a string of embarrassing episodes involving women and drugs that has plagued Barry during his three terms. Three weeks ago, detectives looking into allegations that former District employee Charles | Lewis was selling drugs from his room in a downtown hotel were about to attempt an undercover drug purchase, but they abruptly departed after being informed that the mayor was visiting the suspect. A subsequent search by police of Lewis' room, which was billed to the credit card of a Barry aide, revealed traces of cocaine, though investigators could not determine...