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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today Marianna is a town traumatized by its past. Some of the young men who left as country bumpkins returned as hardened criminals. About half of those indicted are still at large, and people are terrified that the Chamberses will try to get even. There have been several fire bombings, including one directed at a woman who testified against a Chambers brother. Yet one fact about Marianna remains the same. Says Councilman Roy Lewellen: "I can't think of eight black teenagers who are employed...
...visitor mentions that cocaine comes from a plant grown in South America. Frog's eyes grow wide, and he suddenly looks like the confused little boy he is. "You think it is a plant?" he asks in astonishment. "That's silly. Everybody knows cocaine comes from Compton ((a town just south of Los Angeles)). The gangsters make it there...
...informative 75-minute survey of Israel's history (presented in two versions: Jewish and Palestinian) to live interviews with such figures as Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and, by satellite from Tunis, Palestine Liberation Organization Spokesman Bassam Abu Sharif. The centerpiece was Tuesday night's three-hour-plus "town meeting." Four members of the Israeli Knesset and three Palestinian representatives faced off against one another, symbolically divided by a wooden wall. In the audience were 600 Israelis and 150 Palestinians, who hooted and applauded partisan comments and occasionally asked pointed questions...
...town meeting was especially delicate to organize. Palestinian audience members were bused to the theater for the 6:30 a.m. telecast only after special approval came from Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. A number of potential Palestinian panelists refused to participate. Speaking for the Palestinians, they claimed, is a role that belongs only to the P.L.O. The three representatives who did appear insisted that the wall be set up and avoided even looking at the Israelis for most of the show...
Equally diligent is the latest star in town, Caprial Pence, 24, chef at the handsome, pricey Fullers in the Seattle Sheraton Hotel. After three years in training jobs, Pence took over as chef in 1987. Now she turns out dishes that are as delicious as they are pretty, among them a colorful spinach salad with warm duck and orange sections topped with a rosette of Japanese red pickled ginger, and mellow ravioli filled with crab meat and hazelnuts. Born in Pasco, Wash., and trained at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., Pence believes that Seattle is just...