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...anxiety was almost palpable along Los Angeles' Skid Row on Wednesday night of last week. Businessmen who work in the gleaming new office towers near by hurried home along the Harbor Freeway. Frightened winos and derelicts crowded the dilapidated missions or dozed uneasily on hardwood chairs in the shelter of neighborhood chapels. Liquor sales were off, and the drab streets, lined with pawnshops, surplus-clothing stores and aging apartment hotels, were uncommonly empty. In the past eight weeks, seven middle-aged men, most of them down-and-outers, had been found in doorways, alleyways and cheap hotel rooms within...
...Jackal. That night the anxiety turned out to be misplaced only in geography. Once again the murderer struck, but this time some six miles from Skid Row. The eighth victim, George Frias, 45, a catering-service secretary, was found in his modern first-floor Hollywood apartment on distant North Kingsley Drive, but he had worked near where the other victims were slain. His throat, too, was slit. A ninth man, also presumed to be a victim of the Slasher, was discovered two days later less than a mile away in another Hollywood apartment...
...Among Skid Row drinkers and drifters, rumors and suspicion of strangers and each other run high. Augustine Cruz, 58, shakily raised his plastic coffee cup at the Union Rescue Mission and rolled his bloodshot eyes as he recalled that several of the victims used to bed down with him on the library lawn where one of the murders took place: "I want this guy bad. He's already got three of my buddies. But why kill winos? What does he want?" Some of the younger men shrug it off. "Long as he doesn't bother...
Murder or Accident. Union officials were suspicious about her fatal car crash; they called in an independent accident investigator, A.O. Pipkin of Dallas. After inspecting the skid marks and finding a telltale dent in one of the Honda's rear fenders, he concluded that a second car had forced Silkwood's auto off the road-thus implying that Silkwood might have been murdered. But the Oklahoma state highway patrol cited an autopsy showing that her blood contained traces of alcohol and methaqualone, which a doctor had prescribed as a sedative. To the police, it seemed evident that...
...almost daily drumbeat of dismal news about falling production and growing unemployment made a turn toward more stimulus of the economy unavoidable. As car sales continued to skid, Detroit announced plans for more production cutbacks; that will add substantially to the 205,000 auto workers -about 25% of the auto-industry labor force-already idled and further bloat the nation's jobless rate, which is expected to swell to as much as 8% next year from its present 6.5%. According to a forecast issued by the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development last week, the U.S. will...