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Tens of thousands of impoverished people -- mainly blacks and other minorities -- living in the countless Altgeld Gardens and Forest Glens in the inner cities and rural pockets of the nation are the victims of what critics call environmental racism. The victimizers are mainly waste-management firms and local politicians hoping...
-- In California, Juana Gutierrez and her 400-member Mothers of East Los Angeles are fighting a proposed toxic-waste incinerator slated for nearby Vernon, which every year would spew some 19,000 tons of potentially health- threatening ash on their community. Why, she asks, should East Los Angeles, poverty-pocked...
Many trainees are sensitive to charges of arrogance and surprisingly critical of their own colleagues. "Some people are complaining about their area of placement when they should be thinking about the kids they are doing this for," says Michael Yudell, 22, a Tufts graduate. TFA itself has come in for...
Suddenly, it is fashionable to pinch pennies. Washington socialites Frank and Jayne Ikard are not taking their annual grand tour of Italy this year. Instead they plan to drop in on friends in Montana. Beverly Hills matron Joan Gross last week was browsing at the Price Club, a discount warehouse...
The L.A.P.D. claims it has the support of crime-ridden minority communities for the harsh crackdown on the gangs. But residents retort that whatever support they give the police stems from their even greater fear of trigger- happy gangs. Says Regina Jones, a black publicity consultant and former police department...