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...Soviet Union has blocked their efforts. Last week, in the most dramatic in their 20-year battle, two of the seven, Augustina Vashchenko, 52, and her daughter Lidiya, 30, were on a hunger strike and failing fast. "Lidiya is down to her last reserves," said visiting Pennsylvania Congressman Bud Shuster. "It could become a life-threatening situation...
...greedy," Shuster explains, "and lost out." But not entirely: in the '60s and early '70s the house would have fetched only $15,000 or $16,000-if anyone could have been found...
...Shuster, 48, and her husband Nachum, 64, an Orthodox rabbi, came from Israel and have owned the three-story house for only eight years. But by local standards that makes them oldtimers. Atlantic City's history is conveniently divided between B.C. and A.C.-before and after the casinos. Since the first casino opened only three years ago, the Shusters are definitely B.C., and so, of course, are their guests. They are a vanishing breed, living life slowly in a town that wants to move at top speed, watching with dismay as old landmarks give way to new parking lots...
...have also been turned into asphalt. Most people drive to Atlantic City, and parking spaces near the Boardwalk, where the Montpelier is, are at a premium. A fourth house, now empty, will soon be torn down too. The woman who owns it was offered $300,000 last year, Shuster observes, but held out for $325,000. After she closed up last winter, someone broke in and ripped out all her plumbing; rather than replace it, she gave up and sold for $225,000, which was all the speculator was then willing...
...loss of the rolling chairs is not the only thing the people on the porch dislike about the new Atlantic City. Lorna Shuster, for example, is annoyed by the big increase in costs. "We were told our taxes would go down," she says. "Instead everything has gone up about four times. They lied to us." "The old people have been thrown out," adds Esther Halperin. "And they expected to die here...