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Dzintra Dowling, 37, lives in a three-bedroom house in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield with her two children, ages 15 and 10. She has been out of a job since last October, when she was laid off at International Harvester. Dowling is separated and gets no financial support from her husband. Her weekly unemployment check of $199 ran out weeks ago, and she is "down to my last $20." She is now considering what would be to her a drastic measure: applying for welfare. "This morning I sat down after my son had gone to school and just bawled...
...armed men in military uniform, actions the Duarte government defends as part of its progressive "land reform" policy. Recent press accounts have suggested new episodes--of 926 civilians massacred in one province less than two months ago, and of 19 lined up and shot in a San Salvadoran suburb early morning. Administration officials can dispute these accounts as propaganda supporting the rebels who have little to gain from under counting civilians killed. And they can voice their doubts about the Salvadoran left, especially since the dream of freedom in Sandinistan Nicaraugua seems less than realized. Yet we all must wonder...
...suburb of San Salvador last week, government security forces found 20 young men in 20 different houses. Students and workers, their parents said; "subversives," the government replied. Twenty more dead Salvadorans. Last month, 1500 Salvadoran military officers arrived in this country for training; two days ago, the administration announced a $55 million increase in military aid to that country's ruling junta. The worst thing of it, of course, is that people and dying for during to ask not to live in hell. But for Americans there is, or should be, another tragic sadness. Some--with more faith than reason...
...years Congress has avoided passing even modest gun registration measures, wary of incurring the well-financed wrath of shooters' groups like the National Rifle Association. But the town fathers of Morton Grove, Ill. (pop. 24,000), a genteel suburb northwest of Chicago, are not so timorous. Beginning next Monday, selling or possessing a handgun in Morton Grove will be a crime, punishable by up to six months in jail and a $500 fine. The law against possession, passed 4 to 2 by the village trustees and upheld by a federal district court, is the most stringent gun control statute...
Pontiac, Mich., a lunch-bucket industrial suburb 25 miles northwest of Detroit, seems an unlikely host for Super Bowl XVI. It is the first time in the history of the sports event that the game will move outside the Sunbelt. Last week Pontiac's decaying downtown was finishing up a hasty facelift. This overnight assemblage of restaurants, lounges and shops-some in abandoned buildings-bears the name Bourbon Street North. More than cosmetics, however, may be needed to equal the blowsy je ne sais quoi of New Orleans, site of the last Super Sunday. Super Bowl, after...