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...until the pages crumble. "I had just opened the letter from my wife when we had a Scud alert," says Sergeant Darrell Thompson, 37, of the XVIII Airborne. "I dropped my mail to run off to the bunker, but I put the photo of my little girl in my pocket, like a good-luck charm...
...numbers of deteriorated buildings. All agree that the buildings need money for major repairs. All agree that well-off Rent Control tenants can afford to pay more. The system needs change. But how? Raise the rents? Hell no. (Enter the Big Lie.) Landlords are insatiably greedy despots. They'll pocket the rent money and let their buildings fall apart. Cambridge's deteriorated buildings prove...
...first-year visiting Central Square for the first time. I was buying something or another, and the store was full of Black men--young, muscular, vaguely threatening. In my pocket was a wad of bills--about $80. Afraid to expose so much money to a crowd of potential muggers, I carefully extracted a single $10 bill from my pocket without revealing the rest...
...burglaries. Muggers are not as pervasive as they are in, say, New York City, but they have become dangerous enough. Citizens are arming themselves in self-defense. Though Soviet law strictly controls private gun ownership, an illegal-weapons trade is growing. A popular alternative is the "gas gun," a pocket-size German-made pistol that fires tear gas and costs as little as $25 on the black market...
Ozal calls for an atlas and opens it to a map of the region. "Look where we are and what is going on around us," he says. As he traces the boundary of his country's giant neighbor to the north, Ozal reaches with his other hand into his pocket and pulls out a string of jet-black worry beads...