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...Government experience, the mock NSC facing the ersatz crisis showed flashes of anger, vast knowledge tinted by political bias, impatience and even occasional confusion. The Crisis Game demonstrated that for better and worse, the fate of the earth is in human hands-a useful reminder the week that a swath of Kansas and Missouri was incinerated. - By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Christopher Redman/Washington and Raji Samghabadi/New York
...hotels bear names out of the vanished past of a Raymond Chandler novel: the Palms-Wilshire, the Californian, the Barbizon. But in the once tony Wilshire-Alvarado district of Los Angeles, a swath of wide streets and pink stucco apartment buildings five minutes from downtown, the elegance is gone. There, amid broken glass, dank, urine-stained hallways, and discount shops, live more than 1,000 Marielitos, many sporting the telltale tattoos that mark them as former prisoners in Cuban jails. Squalid $8 rooms serve as base camps for drug dealers, prostitutes and holdup gangs. Nearby MacArthur Park, once a palm...
South Korean immigrants also tend to be middle class, or working slavishly to get there. Their numbers have gone up 16-fold since 1970, with virtually all of the newcomers settling in a 2-sq.-mi. swath along jumbled Olympic Boulevard. They seem eager to become full-fledged American bourgeois, holding golf tournaments and staging beauty contests. According to L.A. Demographer Eui-Young Eu of California State University, 40% of the area's documented Koreans own their homes. Most are fervent Protestants. Koreatown has some 400 churches. Ironically, younger Koreans are more likely to commit crimes than any other Asian...
Hard times have cut a painful swath across much of the rest of the U.S. energy belt. In Oklahoma, more than 100 oil and gas companies went into bankruptcy during the past year, while employment among extraction workers tumbled 26%. "The decline is continuing, and we may not even be able to measure its full impact," says Will Bowman, research director of the Oklahoma employment security commission. In Elk City, which sits over the energy-laden Anadarko Basin, joblessness jumped from 2.4% in February 1982 to 11.8% this February. Laments Mayor Harold Wehrenberg: "Everything kind...
...when fragments of the unmanned U.S. space station harmlessly hit the Australian outback. But the problem with the Soviet satellite had a particularly frightening element. Aboard the faltering Red star was some lethal cargo: a miniature nuclear power plant that could spray deadly radioactive material over a wide swath of the earth...