Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...total of 32 alarms went off around town, and firemen used every available piece of equipment, including the city's sole fire boat. Charlestown's Engine 50 spent one Saturday night rushing to multiple-alarmers, first two miles to South Boston, then four miles from there to Jamaica Plain, then finally back to Charles town. As for the arson investigators. "We're getting there after the fact." McCarthy admits. "Two or three alarms have gone off by the time the arson squad gets there." In such cases most of any evidence of arson is burned, and very few arrests...
...instead, most of the fires hit areas generally considered more "desirable" locales: neighborhoods on the rebound, with rising real estate markets, active renovation of picturesque old homes, as well as relatively little crime and--in certain cases--healthy racial integration Jamaica Plain and Mattapan in particular, as well as the South End, South Boston and others, all have recently been attracting young, "upscale" professionals with an interest in improving their new neighborhoods. Meanwhile, an unprecedented number of their buildings have been torched...
...take out-of-state money, even turning down $10,000 from President Reagan's own PAC, the Citizens for the Republic. Of the $290,000 he has raised so far, $45,000 came out of his own pocket. The rest, he says, comes largely from donations by just plain folks in Montana. The average contribution...
...effort that ignored no relevant means of communication with both our friends and our adversary. Communication to and from our allies in Europe was intense, and their support sturdy. The Organization of American States gave the moral and legal authority of its regional backing to the quarantine, making it plain that Soviet nuclear weapons were profoundly unwelcome in the Americas. In the U.N., Ambassador Adlai Stevenson drove home with angry eloquence and unanswerable photographic evidence the facts of the Soviet deployment and deception...
...unilateral decision reached by the President would have been misread as an unwilling concession granted in fear at the expense of an ally. It seemed better to tell the Soviets the real position in private, and in a way that would prevent any such misunderstanding. Robert Kennedy made it plain to Ambassador Dobrynin that any attempt to treat the President's unilateral assurance as part of a deal would simply make that assurance inoperative...