Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Voices Louder than Words. A benefit for the homeless presented by the New England Booksellers. Sanders Theatre. Call 496-2222 for tickets and more information...
...Thousand Oaks, north of Malibu. Authorities suspect arson; in any case, the fire moved through the canyons in classic fashion, licking the resort community's border and eventually destroying 35 homes on 35,000 sparsely populated acres. Then early the next morning, 60 miles east, it seems a homeless Chinese immigrant named Andres Huang lit a campfire to warm himself at the edge of the Angeles National Forest. An ember set off brush, and Eaton Canyon was awash in waves of flame. By noon, they charred 4,000 acres and immolated hundreds of houses in the mountainside suburb of Altadena...
...cascading" system of evacuation in stages, and made sure to route people down the safest roads, rather than the shortest ones. The communities threatened this time were smaller than Oakland, the logistics easier. Thus by the end of the week, although the fires had made 25,000 Californians homeless and injured 84, they seemed not to have claimed a single life. "By God," sighs Laguna Beach Police Captain Bill Cavenaugh, "we didn't lose anybody...
...against the pro-choice argument for abortion:"Can a woman choose to steal, using her own body?"). But in fact his views on abortion are relatively nuanced. Nor is it kooky or even wrong to assert, as Limbaugh has, that the risk of heterosexual AIDS and estimates of the homeless population have been exaggerated for political reasons, that increased school expenditures don't necessarily produce better education, that means testing for Social Security would be a fine idea, that taking responsibility for one's own life is all-important...
...seeks to portray the mayor as weak and ineffectual by reciting a list of civic disturbances during Dinkins' term, including a 1991 melee between blacks and Jews. Meanwhile, the Dinkins campaign has ridiculed the Republican challenger's proposal to set a 90-day limit on stays in homeless shelters, calling it an example of Giuliani's coldness and lack of compassion. At least three scheduled debates have been canceled because the candidates couldn't agree on the rules. The attacks prompted New York Newsday last week to portray the two candidates in swaddling clothes under the Page One headline...