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...they rebuild homes wrecked by Hurricane Andrew. By night they drink, fight, smoke crack and sometimes kill. In the squalid roadside camps they call home, shotguns and 9-mm pistols abound, as do the tools of their trade: roofing knives. In one case a roofer's throat was cut so deeply he was nearly decapitated. In another a roofer shot and stabbed a drifter 100 times. Soldiers who patrolled the area say they saw a roofer bite off another man's ear, then spit...
...fact, the supposed silver lining in the smoky cloud that covered Los Angeles last spring was the promise that the entire city would pull together to rebuild the burned and looted landscape. People looked forward to healing the strife between warring black, white, Hispanic and Asian groups, and between the community and the police. Hope soared all the higher when former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth, who had run the dazzlingly successful 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, took the helm of Rebuild L.A., the city's formal rebuilding effort. Angelenos also warmly greeted new police chief Willie Williams, who arrived from Philadelphia...
...much of the hype and hope that surrounded Rebuild L.A. has seemed to vanish into the air. Instead of moving quickly forward with its plans to generate $5 billion worth of investment in the city over the next five years, the group bogged down in squabbles between community organizations over adequate representation on Rebuild L.A.'s 80-member board of directors. "Rebuild L.A. has left a lot to be desired," says Kaffie Powell, a retired postal worker and president of a South Central neighborhood advisory board. "There's not been as much effort as there should...
Corporate giants ranging from Atlantic Richfield to Xerox have pledged $300 million to Rebuild L.A. Yet residents of burned-out neighborhoods have kept asking themselves when the organization would really do something tangible with the money. While much of the money was earmarked for job training, few people in the most devastated parts of town could actually see any prospect of landing...
...great deal of the program's fame does derive from its successes. Clemente points to other changes, including a 20 percent raise in teacher salaries, a proposition in legislature for funding to rebuild many of the school buildings and the establishment of two annual scholarships to B.U. for Chelsea students...