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...while Ruggles' odyssey took place, the commission forgot its intransigience toward granting new liquor licenses. Since Ruggles was first denied, the commission has given three licenses--to the Charles Square Hotel, to Grendel's Den, and most recently the Wursthaus license, allowing that restaurant to serve liquor on the sidewalk...
EXHIBIT A: Sadness spread over the faces of two freshmales from Holworthy as they sat dejectedly on the sidewalk on Quincy St. outside the Union. "I'd be a lot happier if they served booze," said the first. "All I want is for that girl over there to sit on my lap," said the other, who for his part obviously did not want for liquor...
Marvin Brinston, 19, was once a mean walker of Oakland's mean streets. One day, he experienced a sidewalk epiphany. "Two men were arguing," he recalls. "One just straight up and shot the other. It dawned on me how they got killed by just talking. And that scared me. I just had to get away from that." Now Brinston is doing landscaping and maintenance work for A.C. Transit, the East Bay bus system...
...advances, which are made possible thanks to the decided backing of your government." Then Duarte broke the news: security forces had arrested three of the eleven leftist guerrillas suspected of involvement in the killing of 13 people, including four off-duty U.S. Marines, during the June 19 attack on sidewalk cafes in the Zona Rosa section of San Salvador. Duarte praised "the efficient and disinterested help" of the U.S. Government in "advising and equipping" El Salvador's two-month-old Special Investigation Commission, which supervised the inquiry that led to the arrests...
...some areas antiabortionists have taken their fight to the streets. Women arriving at clinics in many cities face a formidable line of protesters, or "sidewalk counselors," who try to talk them out of getting abortions. Threatened with a boycott of their lucrative annual cookie sale by right-to- lifers, Detroit's Girl Scouts in 1984 deleted mention of abortion and birth control from a proposed training program for adults. In Arizona and North Carolina, Fundamentalists are seeking to prevent public funding for Planned Parenthood, the organization dedicated to providing family planning, including abortion...