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...showcase of Sandinista popularity is Barrio Riguero (pop. 11,000), an eastern slum neighborhood of Managua that was the scene of serious street fighting against Somoza. Spray-painted revolutionary slogans adorn virtually every ramshackle wall. Pigs root through street trash, and mothers bathe squealing infants in concrete laundry sinks in cramped backyards. A notable change in the landscape, however, is a tiny, spotless health post in the district. In four modest examining rooms, crisply attired nurses provide basic diagnostic and preventive care for anyone who wants it, free of charge...
...interesting demonstration of this theory was undertaken more than a decade ago by a team of psychologists at the University of Wisconsin. Struck by the fact that many of the mentally retarded children in a Milwaukee slum had retarded mothers, they took 40 infants whose mothers had IQs of less than 75 and put 20 of them in special day care centers. From the age of three months on, the children began getting lessons in language and arithmetic as well as various other kinds of stimulation. By the time they reached school age, their average IQ was more than...
...orchestrated display of outrage was becoming increasingly familiar. As dusk fell over Chile's capital of Santiago, tens of thousands of people began beating pots and pans in a rhythmic cacophony. In the densely populated slum of Herminda La Victoria, gangs of unemployed youths defied a strict curfew, barricading the streets with burning tires and chanting "Down with the dictatorship!" Rumbling through the capital's nearly deserted streets, army troops and police tried to intimidate the demonstrators by firing submachine guns into the air and throwing tear-gas grenades at them. The toll of the 5½-hour...
...this week's World section. In addition to meeting the President and presenting him with a glass eagle as a memento of the occasion, the group talked with the ministers of Foreign Affairs, Interior, and Finance, and the Director of Foreign Investments. The Newstour then visited a dusty slum area south of Mexico City, lunched with leaders of the P.R.I., Mexico's dominant political party, and dined at the Mexico City Museum while watching members of the famed Ballet Folklórico de Mexico perform dances from different periods of the country's history. The travelers were...
Washington has pledged to tame the machine and to reform its "patronage army" of city workers. But the long-excluded Blacks of Chicago's slum-ridden South Side who showed up 15,000 strong at his victory party, didn't discuss the merit system...