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...shyness. (He faces assault charges stemming from an alleged Nashville attack on two journalists.) Two nights before the wedding, he was photographed making his way into his bachelor party with a towel or blanket wrapped around his face. And few wondered who had scrawled an obscene greeting in the sand off Unger's house for photographers to read from the helicopters above...
...Gilberts have appeared on television, she in formal gown, he in tails; they, older, in a restaurant posing deadpan for a picture for no reason, the way people do in restaurants. In a way the issue here is age: mind and body falling away like slabs of sand off a beach cliff. If biology declares war, have people no right to a pre-emptive strike? In the apartment he continues to stare at her who, from time to time, still believes they are traveling together in Spain...
...York City, is a place divided. To the east of the Saw Mill River Parkway live most of the city's whites; to the west live most of its blacks and other minorities. In what may turn out to be a landmark civil rights decision, Federal Judge Leonard Sand ruled last week that the deliberate concentration of low-income housing projects on Yonkers' west side resulted in a racially segregated public school system that "has clearly worked to the disadvantage of minority students." It was the first time that a single case linked racial discrimination in housing and schools...
...Sand's decision, which resulted from a suit filed by Jimmy Carter's Justice Department in late 1980, was politely applauded by the Reagan Administration. The N.A.A.C.P., which became a joint plaintiff in 1981, saw the ruling as a boost for similar cases in Milwaukee and Kansas City. Said N.A.A.C.P. Assistant General Counsel Michael Sussman: "We knew we were going to win all along." So perhaps did Yonkers' political establishment, which expressed no surprise at the ruling. Some of the city's officials acknowledge that segregation exists, but have denied that public planning had anything to do with it. DRUGS...
...gray mud pockmarked with the jutting remains of houses, automobiles, trees and sometimes dead bodies. The government planned to have the Roman Catholic Church declare the area a "holy ground," meaning that more than 20,000 corpses would probably remain forever entombed under the hardening mass of volcanic ash, sand and clay. Health Minister Rafael de Zubiria expressed concern over potential outbreaks of disease, though he emphasized that there was no sign of epidemics...