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...Pentagon spending. Massachusetts, the state usually described as the most liberal in the nation, currently ranks fourth among all states in the amount it receives in defense contracts: some $7.7 billion. In 1985 alone, $2.3 billion worth of defense-related business went to Raytheon, based in the Boston suburb of Lexington, where the shots heard round the world were fired. The ammunition they are firing today is more sophisticated: Patriot and Hawk air defense missiles for the Army, Sparrow air-to-air missiles for the Navy...
Animosity toward blacks and a history of racial violence long ago earned Cicero, Ill. (pop. 62,000), a reputation as the "Selma of the North." In 1983 the Justice Department sued the Chicago suburb for housing and job discrimination, and last week Cicero's town board finally agreed to change its ways. Bowing to a consent decree, the town will adopt a fair-housing resolution and eliminate its rule against hiring only residents for municipal jobs. Few observers were impressed. Said the N.A.A.C.P.'s Mel Ford Jordan: "It is an action consistent with 1860, which for Cicero is progressive." Town...
First-time buyers, though, are as eager as they come. Richard and Shirley Brownstein have spent the past three years looking for an affordable house in a Chicago suburb while they lived with their two sons, 6 and 3, in a two- bedroom apartment. When interest rates tumbled, the couple was finally able to swing a mortgage and buy a home. In July they will move into a three- bedroom ranch house in Woodridge, Ill. (price: $90,000). Says Richard, a credit supervisor for J.I. Case, a farm-equipment manufacturer: "If we didn't buy a house this year...
...remarks were reported by East German television. The state-run network filmed Gorbachev's speech in a machine tool factory in a suburb of East Berlin and translated his Russian words into German...
...commotion mounted, the Marcoses left Hickam Air Force Base after a month-long stay and moved into a $1.5 million beachfront estate in the exclusive eastern Honolulu suburb of Niu. The new home offers little of the imperial style to which the dethroned couple is accustomed: more than 50,000 cars a day roar along a four-lane highway just outside the house, while sundry beachcombers, joggers and fishermen can peer at the grounds from the nearby beach. One novel feature, however, may remind the exiles of their old Manila home. Within 24 hours of the Marcoses relocation, picketers appeared...