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...sleepy insularity of Howard Beach ended last week. Overnight a brutal attack against three young black men at a local pizza parlor turned the neighborhood into a national synonym for flagrant racial violence. The death of one of the young blacks and the apparently unprovoked beating of all three at the hands of a gang of white teenagers caused New York City's Mayor Ed Koch to describe what happened as the "most horrendous incident" of violence in his nine years as mayor. Local civil rights leaders saw the attack not as an isolated outbreak but as the latest example...
Sakharov and Bonner were instantly surrounded by foreign correspondents as the couple stepped off the overnight train from Gorky at 7 a.m. last Tuesday at Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station. For the next 35 minutes, Sakharov patiently fielded questions on the chilly platform. Remarkably, few police officers were in evidence. Usually, any public appearance by a Soviet dissident is well attended by uniformed and plainclothes police, who try to intimidate journalists and passersby. This time no attempt was made to disrupt the impromptu news conference. Nor was there any police stakeout at the couple's tiny seventh-floor apartment on Chkalova...
...announced, implying that they would not reach a greenmail settlement. Smith Barney, which had paid more than $47 each for nearly 1.3 million shares of Goodyear, expecting a price spurt during the takeover struggle, took a paper loss of $17 million when the value of the stock flattened overnight. In addition to Smith Barney's action, six other lawsuits have been filed by Goodyear shareholders. They want the same price for their shares that Goldsmith...
Whitty, who directs Shelter Inc., an emergency overnight shelter that provides beds for 20 people, has to turn away people each night. He says community organizations like his own cannot accommodate all of Cambridge's homeless population, which is growing...
Circumstances and editors beyond my control gave the Duluth paper permission to reprint the piece. Overnight I became the hottest topic in Duluth...