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Among the real estate wheeler-dealers, the Chinese tend to invest in housing, the Koreans in commercial property. Indeed, just as the turn-of-the-century immigrants clustered in certain kinds of business -- the Irish in politics and policing, Jews in the textile industry -- each new national group has its...
Many historians disagree. Hispanics, says Sheldon Maram, a professor of history at California State University at Fullerton, "are moving at about the same level of acculturation as the Poles and Italians earlier in the century. Once they've made it, they tend to move out of the ghetto and melt...
The exchange took place on the Glienicker Bridge spanning the Havel River between Potsdam, East Germany, and West Berlin. The Soviet and East German & officials clustered at one end, the Americans, led by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, at the other. From the Potsdam side, a bus containing some...
American officials first sought the release of Soviet Dissidents Anatoly Shcharansky and Andrei Sakharov. When Moscow said no, the U.S. went instead for numbers. The deal was finally closed last month when President Reagan was in West Germany for the economic summit. The 19 East Germans and six Poles involved...
In Albion, Pa., "whole roofs just exploded," said Fire Fighter Fred Kiedaisch. "There was debris 100 feet in the air -- houses, trees, poles, even outboard motors." Afterward, police canine teams searched the rubble for bodies. They found nine, with 20 still missing by morning.