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Despite his regime's performance, Barry is still popular with black voters. "People are quick to forget all that he's done for us," says public- housing activist Kimi Gray. In racially divided Washington, white residents of comfortable neighborhoods in the city's northwest seldom stray into the areas where most black citizens dwell. Many blacks believe that whites are following a devious "plan" to regain political control of the District by embarrassing black officials. The mayor has survived by playing on that fear and, like any good political boss, distributing favors to his constituents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mayor Barry: A Capital Offense | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...shantytowns on Mexico City's outskirts, tens of thousands of people shelter in huts made of cardboard with aluminum roofs. There is no running water and no sanitation. The stench is overpowering: garbage and human waste heap up in piles. Rats roam freely, like stray domestic animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: Overpopulation Too Many Mouths | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...opposes the union shouldn't care, and the union doesn't need advice on this matter from those who are not sympathetic to its very existence. Every club, from the Boy Scouts to the Democratic Party, has a rule for making internal decisions: each member, one vote. To stray from that rule would be organizational suicide...

Author: By Robert J. Weiner, | Title: Membership Has Its Privileges | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...Washington last week a stray bullet from a gun battle raging outside smashed through a kitchen window, killing a 47-year-old grandmother, Rosemary Stevens. Sometime before, a dispute among three teenage girls in Miami over a vandalized Cadillac erupted into gunfire and a 15-year-old girl was mortally wounded by a shot from a .9-mm automatic. In Houston last month, a Colombian man and woman were shot execution-style in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slaughter in The Streets | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...offer some advice for President-elect Bush: "Eat right, stay fit, get plenty of exercise, avoid stress, watch out for radon, stray bullets...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Bush's Victory Is Hollow | 11/9/1988 | See Source »

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