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National Guard units from California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona have joined in border stakeouts, searching cargo at crossing points and ports, eradicating marijuana fields and providing helicopter lifts for law- enforcement agencies. At Nogales a score of Arizona Guardsmen have helped Customs triple inspections of tractor-trailer rigs heading north...
...family's ordeal finally ended in August, when a trailer truck carrying a hip-roofed house with yellow shingles pulled up on the site of Anderson's burned-out home. "This house," she boasts, "won't have no holes like the other...
Among its recipients is Johnnie Murry, who used to live with her husband and 15 children in a two-room trailer. In 1984 MadCAAP brought a four-bedroom house to Murry's farm. Now white curtains hang from the windows and stuffed animals, high school banners and framed graduation pictures decorate the wood- paneled walls. "We can sleep better now," says Murry. "I am grateful that I have a place to cook, a table to feed my family at and a place for me to rest later...
Affliction is about a dismal town in New Hampshire and its effects on one of the inhabitants, Wade Whitehouse, part-time well digger, snow-plow operator, police officer and school-crossing guard. He has lived in a trailer ever since his wife left him for a man with better prospects. Smoldering with resentments, he lets routine things slip his mind. "Sometimes you just forget who you are. Especially when you're sick of who you are," he tells his brother Rolfe...
Victims of the collapse included Ronald Yoder, 37, who lost his job as a crane operator when Fruehauf shuttered its Fort Wayne, Ind., trailer plant in 1987. Yoder, who is married with a 17-month-old son, now earns about a third less than the $11.47 hourly wage he was paid at Fruehauf and receives no health insurance from his present employer. Says he: "Sure, I got another job, but I can't save a dime. We wanted to have another baby, but we can't afford it. I didn't know what an LBO was until a couple...