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Benstock says that when she moved to New York, "the problem that bothered me most was soot on my windowsill--air pollution...
...same might be said of U.S. policy in Honduras. Cleanup crews in Tegucigalpa continue to wash soot off the U.S. embassy annex, attacked two weeks ago by gringophobic students protesting the seizure and extradition to the U.S. of accused Drug Kingpin Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros. At least two Hondurans died in the riots; damage estimates ranged up to $6 million, and the U.S. indicated that it expects reparations. The Reagan Administration insisted that the attack was orchestrated by drug traffickers, including a military faction sympathetic to Matta...
...anti-Marcos uprising has dissipated. In 1986, behind the yellow, dusty walls of a local military camp, Aquino broke ground for a "People's Church" to commemorate the revolution. The only thing built, however, was a billboard announcing the coming construction. Months passed. Coups were attempted and failed. Soot gathered on the neglected, peeling panel. In the end, vandals defaced it, and a strong wind knocked it down...
Gaza's main shopping street, Omar al-Muktar, was streaked with soot from burned tires, soaked with water from broken mains, and strewn with stones, chunks of concrete, pieces of metal and smoldering rubber. Barricades stood everywhere, built of tree branches, junked cars, overturned garbage dumpsters and rusting oil barrels. As fast as Israeli troops forced passing pedestrians to dismantle them, they were rebuilt by the roving shabab -- the young men who are the main force behind the uprising...
...champion and scourge of the hardscrabble region where he grew up, Wright evokes a world coated in soot, poverty, kindness and loss. He calls the hilly easternmost part of the state "my back-broken beloved Ohio." Yet his poetry can bitterly detailed at times, with the names of his personal malefactors spelled out. This has not always made James Wright the most popular guy around Martins Ferry...