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AMERICANS DO NOTHING but lose when they participate in riots, looting and random violence. The Rodney King verdict touched off violence around the country. It is horrifying to watch videotaped footage of this--of buildings burning out of control in Los Angeles, of Black businesses burned down, of a truck driver being pulled out of his truck and beaten into critical condition, of Korean shop owners with semi-automatic weapons defending their property from looters, of young children running scared through the streets...
...jury convicted three men of knifing a Utah tourist to death in a New York City subway station. The 1990 murder of young Brian Watkins became a painful symbol of random urban violence. Watkins died attempting to protect his family from robbers...
...facade of the department store GUM would cost a U.S. firm (might it interest Wrigley's?) $400,000. The Moscow historical museum is available (possibly the spot for an IBM ad on random-access memory?) for $250,000. Lenin's marble mausoleum is respectfully excluded from the deal, but two slogan-bearing blimps (for a cold-storage company?) floating above it will go for $60,000 each. A few firms nibbled last week, but none bit. The lead time may turn out to be too short for signing contracts and getting big American ads up by May Day. Even...
Voll says that he and his friends "make random plans on a weekend, but we say, regardless, meet up at the Kong...
Late at night, we cannot go by ourselves to Christy's, the Science Center or another house without accepting a level of risk that is unacceptable. But Take Back the Night is about more than "random violence." It is specifically about violence against women...