Word: downtowners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outside Panama City's Legislative Palace, where votes were being counted, Arias' backers clashed with supporters of Nicolás ("Nicky") Ardito Barletta, 45, the candidate of the military-backed National Democratic Union. Throughout the night, roving gangs from both sides barricaded downtown streets, looting shops and burning debris. Several times they were scattered by sniper fire that erupted from nearby buildings. The toll in one night of rioting: one dead, 41 wounded...
...attacks neighborhood racism, for example, he is chasing a ghost, because the tensions at the grass roots level are more often a product of neighborhoods instinctively retreating inward to prevent change than they are of conscious racism per se. The real problem, as The Globe series bluntly showed, is downtown and at places like Harvard, where Blacks have been shunted off toward lower level, lower paying work...
...bloodshed taught Bostonians one important point that tensions would exist as long as the city's neighborhoods remained as isolated as they now are Perhaps more than any other major city. Boston is a city atomized, split between the neighborhoods and downtown, and split along geographic, racial, and ethnic lines Working class Southie is isolated across the channel and the harbor from the city's skyscrapers. The subway system barely skirts its perimeters, and to reach Southie's center, one must walk for 10 minutes through barren streets, flanked by run-down housing units and abandoned warehouses West Roxbury...
...downtown Peking's Tiananmen Square, the ritualistic rhythms clicked into high gear. A mob of choreographed schoolchildren waved enormous paper flowers toward the Reagans and chanted, in Chinese, "Welcome, welcome-warm welcome!" Across the square, crack drill squads of army, navy and air force troops stood at attention, bayonets fixed, and a People's Liberation Army unit fired off a 21-gun artillery salute. But the most intriguing welcoming committee had been pushed by police 300 yards back across Chang An Avenue to the perimeter, beyond Reagan's view: thousands of ordinary Chinese, most of them young...
...riding a downtown subway in Manhattan at 3 a.m. on Christmas night when a photographer asked her to pose for a picture. Thus began the modeling career of Lisa Sliwa, national director of the Guardian Angels civilian vigilante group and wife of Angels Founder Curtis Sliwa, 30. Newly signed by the Zoli agency, the Chicago-bred, 5-ft. 9-in., 125-Ib. brunette, who says she is 25, still plans to spend her nights riding the city's trains with her husband and thinks her new occupation can help the old. "Most women believe modeling is more feminine than...