Word: northward
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Central America. With Mexico now the chief entry point for U.S.-bound cocaine, the entire region is being crisscrossed with routes for ferrying the drug northward. Smuggling is up sharply in Guatemala, whose remote mountains and vast jungles provide concealment for traffickers along the 540-mile border with Mexico. This year Guatemalan authorities have confiscated 2.5 tons of coke, a fivefold increase from two years ago. Police believe Panamanian traffickers are trying to relocate and turn Guatemala into a "golden bridge for their goods...
Despite their problems, mainstream black Christian groups still exhibit plenty of vitality. Even struggling rural Southern churches, hard hit by northward migration, are doggedly holding on with the help of part-time pastors and energetic lay leaders. One hopeful sign in the North and the West is that blacks are no longer drifting into white churches when they move up the social scale. Says Atlanta's John Hurst Adams, senior bishop of the A.M.E. Church: "We are not buying the integration route. We never have and never will. We seek an inclusive society that need not be integrated but values...
...photographs will attempt to tell the story of not only the mostly European arrivals who passed through Ellis Island but also the millions who came during other eras, from other places and through other points of entry: Africans hauled by force to Southern slave markets, Latin Americans who trekked northward, Asians who flew into San Francisco...
...most rural of all the regions of the U.S., its people the least likely to move far from home if white and most likely to migrate northward if black. It was the one region, as Woodward so tellingly noted, whose people knew what it meant to lose a war and understood there was nothing inevitable about progress. It was, finally, the least changed demographically of all the nation's geographic subdivisions. Black and white Southerners alike had been relatively unchanged by new waves of migration, voluntary or involuntary, for more than 100 years. Regional population growth was minimal...
...love the law. I always will," he says, seated behind his desk and facing a window with a northward view that embraces many of the landscapes of his life. On a clear day he can see Winnetka, where his parents moved when he was a teenager; closer at hand is the north Chicago neighborhood where he was born. Somewhere in between is his present house, where he lives with his wife Annette and their three children: Rachel, 10, Gabriel, 7, and Eve, 3. "I do regard the law as a noble calling," he elaborates. "But I can't shake...