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...what was done in 1965." Watkins' WLCAC 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...
...bricks-and-mortar terms, the neighborhood is a far sight better off than it was when the cries of "Burn, baby, burn!" died down. Several hundred units of government-subsidized housing dot the neighborhood, replacing some of the vacant lots left after the rioting. The intersection of 103rd Street and Compton Avenue, ground zero in 1965, could be Anywhere U.S.A. The sprawling Watts Health Center dominates one corner and a new post office the other. Across the street is a shopping center with a supermarket, a savings and loan office and several apparel shops. There is no graffiti and little...
...activities of the Revolutionary Guards and neighborhood Islamic committees as sentinels of the new morality have been curtailed somewhat, and Khomeini has personally forbidden arbitrary searches of private homes. Even so, these watchdogs have considerable power. On one recent evening on the promenade at Bandar Anzali, a popular weekend getaway for Tehranis, five guards, three of them veiled women, drove in a Nissan van through the strolling crowds. A woman was stopped and told to roll down her three-quarter-length sleeves. Another was admonished for allowing a lock of hair to escape from under her scarf. Sometimes female guards...
...kettle on the stove, a yellow shirt and underwear drying in the window. But Hill also aimed his camera in earnest, particularly on one occasion when he was able to reach the roof of the building in which he and his fellow hostages were being held, and photographed the neighborhood. "I hoped to take pictures that investigators could use in the future to pinpoint our location," he said...
...foreign architects like Rem Koolhaas and Jacques Herzog to outfit the city for the Games--a move some criticized as unpatriotic and others lauded as visionary. "In China it can be hard to get people to think past the next week, or what's good for a certain neighborhood," she says, "But planning a city like Beijing requires a much longer view." That, and no small amount of imagination. -By Susan Jakes