Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardscrabble town of Marianna, Ark. (pop. 6,200), near the Mississippi River, has no movie theater but plenty of boarded-up storefronts. Summer work for teenagers can mean wrenching labor in the rice and soybean fields. Young black men know that if they want something better, they have to go elsewhere...
...dealers were threatened and abused. The trick in the crack trade, police say, is to keep people in line. If the Chamberses' recruits tried to flee, the brothers knew where to find them. "A Chicago kid might be able to leave, but not a kid from Marianna," says the town's police chief, Mark Birchler...
...This is a town of widows," says Mirano, 31, a mother of five who lost her husband three years ago. Marlene Jarquin, 28, nods in agreement; she regularly visits the little cemetery by the river where her husband and 36 others, all victims of a contra attack in 1983, are interred in a mass grave. "Life is hard for us," Jarquin says. "It is difficult to believe in peace until it happens...
...grandfather sent a telegram to my father telling him to tie Panos up so he couldn't leave for America. Instead, my father got him an English teacher," she says conspiratorially. The rest is history: Panos became a doctor in Massachusetts and married a girl from the Greek town of Larissa, who became a schoolteacher in America...
After a nun discovered Celestine's glass casket was empty, authorities began tailing a couple of strangers who had driven through town. Within two days police followed the pair to the remains, stashed some 40 miles away. The figure of Celestine, still wearing miter and robes, was found lying on its red velvet cushion but concealed in a plywood box crammed into a burial niche in a local cemetery. The miscreants escaped. Back in L'Aquila, the bells rang again, this time in celebration...