Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Southern California have come in the past eight years. Cao Duc Thi, 45, an engineer, left Saigon with $40 on April 29,1975, the day before the Viet Cong tanks rolled in. He and a majority of his compatriots live in Westminster (pop. 75,000), a neat desert suburb in Orange County near Camp Pendleton, where many of the refugees spent their first days...
...Quinteros live just east of Bell Gardens. Their town is Montebello (pop. 53,000), a well-tended middle-class suburb that in 20 years has changed from entirely Anglo to 65% Hispanic...
Ride's origins are as all-American as her achievements. She grew up in Encino, Calif., a Los Angeles suburb, reading a lot of science fiction as well as Nancy Drew and James Bond. Her father Dale taught political science at Santa Monica College; her mother Joyce stayed home with Sally and her younger sister Karen. Neither parent pushed her in any particular direction, "except to make sure I studied and brought home the right kind of grades...
...days after a bomb blast killed 18 people on a crowded sidewalk in Pretoria, a dozen South African jet fighters were skimming low over Maputo, capital of neighboring Mozambique. After loosing a barrage of rocket, cannon and machine-gun fire at private residences and a jam factory in a suburb of the port city, the Impala fighters peeled off westward and headed home...
...fires, airplane crashes and crimes. Few believe, however, that the present print wave will deter many kidnapers or help locate many missing children. Still, for frightened parents it satisfies the need to do something. Says Martha Carter, whose son and two daughters had their prints taken in a Dallas suburb in April: "We mark all our silver. We might as well have some way to identify our children." Then she adds the prayer of every parent with a child's fingerprint card: "I hope to never have...