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Chicago's mayor takes an apartment in a crime-plagued slum...
Perhaps the most blatant prettification will occur in Manila itself, where John Paul is scheduled to tour Tondo, a slum that is being hastily and intensely renovated. Yet should John Paul choose to step beyond the prescribed bounds, he will find a grimy row of shanties just two blocks away. Despite these obstacles, Jaime Cardinal Sin of Manila is certain that the Pope will somehow make contact with his country's poor. Says the Cardinal: "He wants to come and console these people...
...separated from the sweat of the Chinese miners and railroad workers, the Japanese farmers, or the Philipino labor organizers. U.S. foreign policy in Asia can not be separated from its policies toward Asians in America; nor can the U.S. economy and domestic policies be separated from the slum conditions of Koreatowns, Manilatowns, Japantowns, and Chinatowns today. Yet, how often are these issues raised in Harvard courses...
Three years after the presidential visit, the administration still has not brought salvation to Charlotte Street and the rest of the South Bronx. But on June 30 the South Bronx Development Office (SBDO) announced a block-by-block plan to revitalize what has become the most publicized slum in the country. The plan outlines a strategy to build from the areas of strength that planners have found in the South Bronx. The SBDO recognizes that the South Bronx, as devastated as it is, is not all like Charlotte Street. Beyond this wasteland is a collection of stable commercial and residential...
Most of the addicts are, as in the past, young and poor slum dwellers. Increasingly, however, heroin is proving upwardly mobile and fashionable. Says John Randell, director of a heroin detoxification program in Los Angeles' Century City: "Cocaine dispelled all the phobias about playing with narcotics, so it became acceptable to experiment with heroin." Most of the experimenters snort the drug or heat it and inhale the vapor, in the mistaken belief that they will not run the same risk of addiction as they would if they injected heroin. According to experts, frequent consumption in any form may lead...