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Hilton Ridgeway, 41, never even got a job in the Northwest. He resigned as a computer programmer in Albany and moved to Oregon with his wife and four children last June, expecting to find a new job easily. After several months of looking, he tried to enlist in the Army, but was too old. Just before Christmas, Ridgeway found six weeks of work at $3.35 an hour on a Christmas tree farm. He doesn't like to recall that until recently he made $30,000 a year...
...fundamental order of things. Nothing to the upset about? Not at Harvard, where "imperialism" is an I.D. on your Soc. Stud, generals, where the Reagan tax cut means a boost in most people's "disposable family income." People feel differently in Jefferson Park, a mile to the northwest, where the housing project is going to slowly crumble and the Food Mart is going to be held up half a dozen times and then probably close, where the bus is going to come less and less often and the public schools are going to turn into bigger jokes than they...
...years Congress has avoided passing even modest gun registration measures, wary of incurring the well-financed wrath of shooters' groups like the National Rifle Association. But the town fathers of Morton Grove, Ill. (pop. 24,000), a genteel suburb northwest of Chicago, are not so timorous. Beginning next Monday, selling or possessing a handgun in Morton Grove will be a crime, punishable by up to six months in jail and a $500 fine. The law against possession, passed 4 to 2 by the village trustees and upheld by a federal district court, is the most stringent gun control statute...
...army first launched its new style of campaign in the Guatemalan departments of Chimaltenango, Sololá and Quezaltenango, major tourist and agricultural areas west of the capital. After resisting briefly, most of the guerrillas quickly moved elsewhere. Now the army is massing its forces in the northwest department of El Quiché, a mountainous jungle area that is considered to be one of the guerrillas' major strongholds. The rugged terrain favors the insurgents, who are surprisingly well equipped. At one fortification discovered in the earlier sweep, the soldiers found networks of tunnels and supplies of M16 rifles...
Pontiac, Mich., a lunch-bucket industrial suburb 25 miles northwest of Detroit, seems an unlikely host for Super Bowl XVI. It is the first time in the history of the sports event that the game will move outside the Sunbelt. Last week Pontiac's decaying downtown was finishing up a hasty facelift. This overnight assemblage of restaurants, lounges and shops-some in abandoned buildings-bears the name Bourbon Street North. More than cosmetics, however, may be needed to equal the blowsy je ne sais quoi of New Orleans, site of the last Super Sunday. Super Bowl, after...