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...operates a dozen businesses and the food-stamp concession. He and other community leaders attribute the continuing troubles partly to federal budget cutbacks, which have eliminated job-training programs. They have also forced a staff cut (107 to 63) in the Westminster Neighborhood Association; the WNA, funded by a mix of public and church monies, helps young people prepare for and find jobs. At the same time, local economic conditions have deteriorated. Firms that previously provided jobs in the area--Goodyear, Firestone, Ford, GM, Sears--have moved away, while the predominantly black community has grown from...
...inspirational figure for Iran's masses. There are rumblings of discontent, but there seems no serious challenge to his conservative Shi'ite theocracy. There is little question either that the Islamic Republic will survive, if not flourish, after his death. The explanation lies in the application of a skillful mix of repression, which is being eased somewhat as the regime gains confidence, and the presenting of Islam as a unifying and controlling element in what remains a loose and still evolving political structure. "People may well be poorer than they were under the Shah," says a Western ambassador in Tehran...
There may be a variety of musical reasons for the current Springsteen ascendancy. The new songs are sharper, neater, more carefully formed than in the past. His voice is clearer, and it is brought further up front in the recording mix. On his rock videos, he shows enough charisma to burn out the entire Brat Pack, while fueling endless idle speculation about a future in Hollywood. In a half-decade full of switchback curves and turning points, however, the starting line may have been a moment when Springsteen opened Joe Klein's luminous 1980 biography of Woody Guthrie. Nebraska...
Since the fame of William ("the Refrigerator") Perry has spread far and wide in recent weeks, no one should mix him up with Tab Thacker anymore, right? For those with a slim memory: Perry was a star defensive lineman at Clemson, class of '85, while Thacker was the national collegiate heavyweight wrestling champ from North Carolina State, class of '84. Now as Perry carries on his football career with the Chicago Bears, Thacker is branching out to try the movies. In Wildcats, Goldie Hawn, 40, plays a Chicago high school football coach stuck with the roughest athletes in the city...
Flight 648 had taken off from Athens at 9:06 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, and headed in a southeasterly direction toward Cairo. On board was a typically multinational mix of passengers, including Egyptians returning home from holidays abroad, Greek merchant seamen bound for Port Said to join their ships, a Filipino dance troupe and a scattering of European, Israeli and American tourists. Captain Galal, a 15-year airline veteran, was assisted by a five-member crew...