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Jack O'Leary, a sports-writer for the Boston Herald, stopped typing away on the small keyboard of his standard-issue Radio Shack laptop and looked up at me from across the fold-up table. "You're not going into this business, are you?" he asked gruffly...
...almost a routine night for native constable Simeon Tsnakapesh as he patrolled the streets of Davis Inlet, a ramshackle village of about 500 Innu Indians on Labrador's north-east coast. Alerted by a neighbor's complaint, he tracked a group of noisy youths to an abandoned wooden shack near the ice- locked government wharf. Prying open the door, the cop found a horrifying scene: six youths, ages 12 to 14, sniffing deadly gasoline fumes from green garbage bags on the floor of the unheated building. "You couldn't hear nothing but the wheeze from the bags," relates Tsnakapesh...
...time addictions counselor Bill Partridge got to the shack minutes later, all hell was breaking loose. "The kids were screaming insults, throwing themselves around at the walls," recounts Partridge. "They said they wanted to die. They were all suicidal." The local Innu Council immediately chartered a plane to take the youngsters, under police escort, to a group home near Goose Bay, 186 miles to the south. Later, three more gasoline-sniffing youths were evacuated to await transfer to another native rehabilitation center...
Even companies who want to hire say they are constrained by doubts about the recovery. "This recession has had nine lives, and we've already seen a number of false starts," says John Roach, chairman of Tandy Corp., which owns the Radio Shack electronics stores. "Actual growth in jobs will require a stronger rebound in the economy than there seems to be right now." At lumber giant Georgia-Pacific, hiring plans have been shelved despite forecasts of increased homebuilding in 1993. "Consumers would have to come back after the Christmas buying binge and show continued confidence," says president A.D. Correll...
...black neighborhood that is combatting crime as well as recession. That pilgrimage perhaps took the sting off the two nights he spent at glittery parties in posher Georgetown. Clinton's trip to Capitol Hill on Thursday was what an aide to the Governor described as a "love shack." Latent intraparty disagreements over taxes, deficits, auto-fuel standards and a line-item veto were quietly shelved; starved for a leader after 12 years, the Democrats are all singing the same music. For now, anyway, happy days are here again. (See related story on page...