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...bodies stacking up in a building occupied mostly by blacks, but the cops are too busy riding shotgun on the black community to pay any attention." Black and gay leaders have called for an independent investigation of the department, claiming that it is still philosophically under the sway of Harold Breier, who retired as police chief in 1984 after a rigid 20-year reign. Meanwhile, Chief Arreola was facing sharp criticism from within his ranks after suspending the three officers involved in the May 27 incident and ordering an internal investigation...
POLITICS. Although black and Hispanic voters have often united behind candidates from one group or the other, attempts to weld long-lasting political coalitions in most large cities have been difficult to sustain. A case in point: the Latino-black alliance that helped elect Harold Washington as Chicago's first black mayor in 1983. Nearly 7 out of 10 Hispanics voted for Washington and gained a voice in local politics they had never had before. Acknowledging the importance of the Hispanic vote, Washington appointed Latinos to several key positions...
Even critics of the Warren Commission find fault with Stone's version of events. Harold Weisberg, author of Whitewash, one of the earliest attacks on the Warren Report, calls Stone's script "a travesty" that dredges up bogus theories and unfounded speculation. Among them: the suggestion that three hobos arrested near the assassination site were involved (they were vagrants who had nothing to do with the assassination, says Weisberg), and Garrison's "discovery" that the route of Kennedy's motorcade had been changed at the last minute (a phony charge, says Weisberg, that was based on conflicting descriptions...
...first known encounter with a buckyball was recorded in 1985 by Richard Smalley, a chemical physicist at Rice University, and Harold Kroto, a British chemist from the University of Sussex who was visiting Smalley's lab. The two scientists were studying what would happen if they heated carbon vapor to about 8,000 degreesC (14,500 degrees F). Unexpectedly, they detected a mysterious new form of carbon. Chemical tests proved two things: 1) the molecules had 60 carbon atoms, and 2) they had no "edges," as chemists call the unpaired electrons that cause atoms to form chemical bonds with...
...couple, Colin and Mary (Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson), resident at a hostelry outside their native land and facing up to yet another common middle-class problem. Their setting is Venice; their issue is the joylessness of sex. But the mood, well established by Paul Schrader's direction and Harold Pinter's elliptical screenplay, is one of languid menace. It is personified by Christopher Walken, excellent as Robert, whose psychopathic weirdness simultaneously attracts and repels the couple. And mysteriously energizes them. In his sexuality there is political metaphor. He is an undeclared fascist, hiding the threat of self- destruction under...