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...dimensional, cliched images: L.A. means the glamour and glitz of Hollywood; it means slums teeming with illegal immigrants; it means the hedonism of an appearance-obsessed culture, it means pristine beaches and smogchoked hillsides; it means a postmodern, impersonal city of intertwined freeways and grid-locked streets; it means inner cities blighted by gang warfare and Rodeo Drive...
...lavished praise on executives of Japan's Pioneer Electronics (U.S.A.), who had just donated $600,000 to the Watts vocational school, created after the 1965 riots. "This company did this on their own," Ueberroth said, "because it should be good business for them to recognize the importance of the inner city...
Though Ueberroth has taped the Rebuild L.A. name to a dozen private initiatives since May, he knows the "rebirth" of South Central Los Angeles will not happen without some pushing and pain. Ultimately, it depends on whether the government decides to provide incentives for long-term investment in inner cities. "It has to be for good business reasons so it will last," he says. "If you do it for charitable reasons, it goes away as soon as the money runs out." He sees the prompt creation of enterprise zones as critical to the long-term success of his efforts...
...much time to mental illness. To help patients with this "Rip Van Winkle syndrome," the Case Western group has learned that each small step forward with clozapine must be carefully nurtured with psychological counseling. Without it, the awakened patients can slip back into mental confusion, and the devilish inner voices may begin harping again...
...reported, Perot's scheme would probably violate any number of individual rights. But the basic notion is sound: no amount of inner-city investment will revitalize America's urban areas if the people who live there fear for their lives. Security, as all the candidates say, with varying emphasis, must be the first priority. All three have embraced community policing, the concept that would add cops to the streets on the theory that only intimate associations can eventually cause residents and officers to trust one another. But "c- pop," as it is known, can work only after an area...