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...Brixton, a south London district with a predominantly black West Indian population. In two nights of arson and looting, 74 people were injured and more than 200 arrested. Brixton was especially hard hit by race riots in 1981, and the wounds they left had only just begun to heal...
Meanwhile, Ike's friends returned from the brink in a Texas hospital. They have since recovered from their injuries, but the deepest wounds will never heal...
...mouth and the slight head buzz that goes with it. By the time he entered high school, he was dipping his way through seven to ten cans a week. Then in 1983, his senior year, Marsee developed a painful sore on his tongue. It refused to heal, and a biopsy showed it was malignant. Over the next six months, the teenager, from Ada, Okla., endured four operations, progressively losing parts of his tongue, throat and jaw. Neither the surgery nor searing radiation treatments contained the cancer. In February 1984, the boy voted "most valuable athlete" of his class died...
...Mass., international marketing director for the Boston Scientific Corp., a medical equipment company. An ex-Marine captain thrice decorated during Viet Nam duty, Brown was kicked in the face by one of the hijackers. The blow broke a blood vessel in his left eye that took eight days to heal. Later, Brown and three other captives were locked up for days in an underground room, 20 ft. square, which he believes was a command bunker. Brown, who kept a diary on folded white paper, got to be known as "the Coach" by his fellow hostages because he insisted that they...
...righter of past wrongs, an exorcist of guilt, a hero in an age painfully short of them, Rambo has not finished his cinematic job. Stallone is already committed to making Rambo III, and is looking for another "open wound" that Rambo can heal. It could be in Iran, or possibly Afghanistan, but he will be back. "Rambo," says Stallone, "is a war machine that can't be turned...