Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beer cans and assorted flotsam dot the lush green parks. They are Santa Barbara's homeless, perhaps 2,000 displaced people in a population of 75,000. The city's mostly retired, wealthy, conservative Establishment, although resigned to their presence, is determined to contain their numbers in the prosperous town just 29 miles from Ronald Reagan's Rancho del Cielo...
Homeless people have camped out in the Santa Barbara area since the Southern Pacific Railroad came to town in 1887. But never before have they seemed so omnipresent. Some attribute the worst of the problem to the wholesale release of patients in the 1960s. Without adequate halfway houses to care for them, the ill ended up on the streets. Others believe homelessness has been aggravated by unemployment, divorce and eviction; people sleep in the parks because they cannot afford the city's high-priced housing: two-bedroom apartments rarely rent for less than $800 a month, after two months' deposit...
Saying that "the general public has its rights too," Mayor Sheila Lodge defends the city's laws against vagrants, and has resisted pressure to fund more shelters. "We don't want to become something we aren't," says Lodge. But Santa Barbara's persistent tree people have changed the town already...
Ortega and the Sandinista revolution came of age together. Daniel, the eldest of five children, was born in 1945 in the northern town of La Libertad. His father, a small businessman, was an avid supporter of the guerrilla forces of the legendary Augusto Cesar Sandino, who was killed by the dictatorship's National Guard. Both father and mother were imprisoned under the first Somoza regime, and Daniel was jailed for his activism at the age of 15. His younger brother Camilo was killed in 1978 during the Nicaraguan revolution, and another brother, Humberto, fought side by side with Daniel until...
...mostly been the tough-talking star of his own Chrysler commercials. But last week on NBC's designer cop show, Miami Vice, the gung-ho CEO was back in the thespian driver's seat playing a different character. Or was he? Invited to drop by whenever he was in town by Michael Talbott, who plays Detective Stanley Switek, Iacocca did just that while in Miami on a promotional tour. The episode, scheduled to air in May, casts Iacocca in a cameo role as Parks Commissioner Lido, a "silver- haired, self-possessed, no-baloney administrative type," says NBC. In a none...