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More Protest. Next day 5,000 Catholics were scheduled to march from the suburb of Gia Dinh to central Saigon, where they would join with other protesting groups. None of them made it. In Gia Dinh, would-be paraders awoke to discover their district surrounded by a police line. They tried to march anyway. In the melee, police smashed Father Thanh's glasses and bloodied his face. By week's end scores more had been injured. Eleven opposition legislators were beaten and one was arrested. The Viet Nam Press Club was raided by police, who rounded...
...many U.S. cities, local legislation is simply inadequate. Chicago law requires a resident to secure a city permit to buy a gun, and these permits are hard to come by. But in virtually every Chicago suburb, a gun buyer need present only an easily acquired $5 state form called a Firearm Owners Identification Card, as well as proof of identity. "What's the use in having a city law," asks Chicago's Deputy Police Superintendent John Killackey, "when you can walk 20 feet across the city limits and buy an arsenal...
Gorski, who is in his mid-thirties, worked on the Minneapolis police force before becoming chief of police in Golden Valley, a small, upper-middle-class white suburb of Minneapolis...
...could once afford to live off-campus are retreating to their dormitories. In Northern California, rural areas are dotted with prefab domes and A-frames put up by young families who cannot afford suburban housing. Two young couples who are neighbors in an apartment building in a Chicago suburb are trying to stretch their combined income of some $30,000 by going in together on a town house. Having set aside enough money to make a 30% down payment, they are searching for a mortgage to cover the rest of their new pad's $69,000 purchase price...
...faster. As every homeowner knows, the key figure in determining whether a house can be afforded is the total of monthly payments-and in the past six years, the cash outlay needed to buy and maintain what is now a moderately priced house ($35,500) in a middle-class suburb has almost doubled. The national average bills each month on such a house...