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Many local residents were quick to say that racial tensions were not involved, blaming soured police-neighborhood relations and Britain's current grim unemployment problem. Said one Brixton dweller: "This is not a race riot. We are not here to hurt white people. It is about jobs, money, all the rest. You can only take so much." But the fact is that tension has been building for months in Brixton, home of many of the 620,000 black West Indians who have immigrated to Britain, or been born there, since the 1950s. As in the U.S., racial friction...
...give-'em-hell style. Perspiration pouring from his face, his voice hoarse, his eyes coldly angry, Carter gave a shouting stump speech unlike almost any he has delivered before, in content as well as manner. It was a headlong assault on his rival, Ronald Reagan, depicting him as a dweller in "a world of tinsel and make-believe" who would "launch an all-out nuclear arms race" and start "an attack on everything that we've done in the achievement of social justice and decency in the last 50 years." The nation, Carter cried, faces "a choice between two futures...
...take it for granted that a stukach is always near by. At work, a factory laborer may be fired from his job for telling political jokes that an informer has repeated to the head of the personnel department, who is invariably working for the KGB. At home, an apartment dweller knows that his superintendent regularly reports on any unfamiliar visitors he may receive -especially overnight. Pressures on ordinary citizens to turn informer are great. Black marketeers and others arrested for petty crimes are offered freedom from prosecution in exchange for cooperation. Plainclothes KGB operatives take pains to blend...
...taxes," Charles Dudley Warner wrote 110 years ago. True then. True now. Never mind the grass, the trees, the shrubs, the vegetable gardens. What nourishes the municipal body is a bountiful tax harvest. But wait: Hartford, Conn., is raising a preposterous, or at least heretical question: Can the city dweller matter even more than the dollar itself...
After a nippy no-more-than-65° F day at the office, Urban Dweller returns to his rented apartment, flicks on the light-and watches as his sigh forms a frozen cloud in the indoor chill. The thermostat is controlled by his thrifty landlord. A woodburning stove is banned by his lease. Improved insulation, not to mention a solar water heater, is hardly on the tenant's list of options. So what does the city dweller do to keep warm...