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...three years. Even Standard Oil, the state's largest company, has retrenched in its headquarters town. The decline of the city's corporate and charitable base occurred at the same time voters were putting restrictions on further commercial growth, including last month's referendum rejecting plans for a new downtown baseball stadium. "The city is not antibusiness," says the mayor- elect, whose platform attempts to hew to a fine line between the concerns of his neighborhood constituents and the power brokers of old San Francisco. "The people just want to plan the growth...
...most brutal attack was saved for L'Ecole Nationale Argentine Bellegarde, a school on Ruelle Vaillant in downtown Port-au-Prince. Two hours after the 6 a.m. opening of the country's 6,000 polling stations, a mob of 50 goons descended on a line of about 100 waiting voters. Using machetes and machine guns, they cut down several Haitians on the spot, then hunted down and butchered many who had tried to flee. One woman was decapitated under an almond tree in the schoolyard. Another was dismembered in an adjacent alleyway. At least 17 people, possibly more, died...
Among the 105 beds at a shelter for the homeless in downtown Detroit, a downtrodden woman starts to tell a story that at first seems all too familiar. But in this case neither hunger nor cold drove her to the facility. The woman fled her neighborhood because of the local crack epidemic. "Every other house has turned into a cocaine house," she explains. "I decided to move out so I wouldn't get addicted...
Victor who is a street vendor in Downtown Crossing from Somerville, simply admits, "I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally...
...total of 37,000 units. Market forces gradually overcame legal ones, and whites began renting to nonwhites, often with the assistance of real estate agents who specialize in "C.I.A. listings," a coy abbreviation for "colored, Indian and African." In Johannesburg the largest concentrations of nonwhites have settled in the downtown business area and a midtown neighborhood called Hillbrow, which now has a 40% black population of about 35,000. "What is happening in Johannesburg is not an issue of political defiance but a case of necessity," says Tony Leon, a city councilor who represents a gray section of Hillbrow. "These...