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...brought some problems. Middle-class housing is scarce and prices are generally high: the average for a three-bedroom tract house in Newport Beach is $300,000. Traffic is approaching the nightmare stage. The 405 Freeway through Irvine often looks like a parking lot. Worse, a hint of L.A. -- smog -- sometimes hangs over the Santa Ana Mountains...
...dodge miguelitos, nail-studded objects intended to puncture tires. In the capital of Santiago and other cities, thousands of workers waited in vain for public buses and taxis that never came. Downtown shops in Santiago were closed, and there was such a dearth of traffic that some of the smog that envelops the city lifted, allowing peaks of the Andes to be seen to the east...
...some alternative papers are eager to take on weighty general-interest topics. Jay Levin, editor in chief of L.A. Weekly, is proud of his paper's coverage of Central America and environmental pollution. A 1980 series on smog in Los Angeles earned a citation from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. The North Carolina Independent, published in Durham, has made a reputation for itself by jousting with the state's powerful tobacco interests and big textile manufacturers...
SANTIAGO. In one half of the city, the illusion of freedom: shops, ads and "free speech"--except for the midnight threats, tortures, beatings and disappearances which keep life on the edge. In the other more than half of the city, paper-board shacks with dirt floors, blinding smog, and growing organization and rage...
Dawn broke with clarity. Even the encircling, snow-topped Sierra Madre was etched sharply in the distance against an azure sky. This was unusual for Mexico City, which is normally shrouded in a brown smog generated by the exhausts of some 3 million cars. But in just four earthshaking minutes, starting at 7:18 a.m. last Thursday, the day's auspicious beginning turned into a nightmarish disaster--and the bright skies only illuminated the extent of the tragedy...