Word: suburb
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...flourish in many immigrant ghettos. Young Turks and Surinamese are deeply involved in the narcotics trade around Amsterdam; addiction is common among young North Africans in Paris. Says Nordine Iznasni, 21, a resident of the notorious Cité Gutenberg, a collection of ramshackle, barrack-like buildings in the Paris suburb of Nanterre: "When you've got nothing to do and nothing to look forward to, it's a way to hide from reality, just as French kids do. Young North Africans are sick of rejection, unemployment and disrespect. Unless you have a strong character, it's easy...
Relying on updated versions of traditional trolleys is not limited to older cities. In Oregon, Portland's 15-mile light-rail line linking the city's downtown core to the fast-growing suburb of Gresham is expected to be ready for riding in 1985. The Federal Government has funded $300 million of the project's $310 million capital costs, thanks in large measure to the lobbying efforts of Neil Goldschmidt, former Portland mayor and Secretary of Transportation under President Carter. Despite Washington's munificence, Portland, with an unpopular mass-transit tax on employers and a noisy...
Next day the drama was repeated at Moreno, 24 miles west of the Argentine capital: 14 bodies were uncovered. A city councilman in the working-class suburb of Florencio Varela announced that he believed at least 30 unidentified corpses were buried in his town's cemetery; in Casilda, 160 miles north of Buenos Aires, a lawyer investigating the 1976 disappearance of two Peronist-party activists spoke of ten bodies that might be found there...
...store-bought gifts during the recession, baking cookies for friends instead. This year she is back in the shops. On one trip last week she spent more than $100 on such presents as jewelry and scarves. Dairy Store Manager William Bales and his wife, who live in the Cincinnati suburb of Norwood, are enlarging their gift-giving circle this year. Said he: "The economy has been a little better to us this year. We have caught up on our bills, so we can spend more...
...East Germany, the official party newspaper Neues Deutschland published an open letter to Party Leader Erich Honecker last October, deploring both the NATO deployment and the threatened "retaliatory" deployment of new Soviet short-range missiles in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. In the letter, Lutheran clergy and parishioners from a suburb of Dresden declared themselves "horrified by the very thought" of the dual deployment, and urged Honecker to support a Scandinavian call for a European nuclear-free zone. Open criticism of both sides in the missile dispute has become a regular feature of local and district meetings of Protestant churches...