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...weak to move, the police force Lopito to push a heavy cement roller across a basketball court, but he collapses and dies. Torre witnesses the entire scene, but even though she calls in her cousin, who is Freddy Fox, she and Vera are too late. Even Fox is powerless in the face of the cackling doctor, who signs Lopito's death certificate saying he died of an innocent heart attack in jail...
...black leaders are concerned, the body will be just one more powerless, white-dominated institution. The council will probably not even have a black majority, with most of the 36 seats taken by white, Asian and "colored" officials who are already part of the structure of apartheid. Most prominent blacks have sworn not to sit in the new assembly, which some have called a toy telephone. Said Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief minister of the KwaZulu black homeland: "Black leaders have long passed the point in history where they can be used as rubber stamps for the real intentions of the country...
However, because the state transferred authority for code enforcement to city governments in 1973, the state inspector, Arthur Ritacco, was powerless to issue a citation and instead had to turn the matter over to Cambridge inspectional services...
...years between the two cases, a powerless group of parents evolved into a well-organized interest group with access to political resources. Tarver's thesis investigated "how people got involved in this sort of social movement and how it changed them," he says...
...stepped down now, he might face arrest and possible imprisonment. Nor did the CIA or Defense Department predict the extent of Noriega's support among the military. "It's really shocking," says an insider, "how bad our intelligence has been." Soon after the indictments, Panama's mostly powerless President Eric Delvalle went to Washington for a meeting of the Organization of American States. Delvalle told Abrams he planned to announce to the OAS his intention of firing Noriega. Abrams, who continued to harbor hopes of a popular uprising in Panama, liked the idea but not the venue...