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...bisexual men from 20 to 24 who were treated in sexual-disease clinics were infected with the AIDS virus. What disturbed researchers most: 36% of the young gays were having sex without a condom, 71% when having sex with a steady boyfriend. Says Lewis Lillian, general manager of Gannett Transit, which is donating half the space for the bus shelter campaign: "Those studies are terrifying...
...eight straight years, New York City had been pounded with one act of racial violence after another. 1982: Willie Turks, a black transit worker, is beaten to death by a mob of whites shouting racial slurs. 1984: Bernhard Goetz wounds four young blacks he said were menacing him on the subway. 1986: a white mob in the Howard Beach section of Queens attacks several blacks, one of whom fled in panic onto a highway and was killed by a passing car. 1989: a 28- year-old white executive is beaten and raped in Central Park by a pack of black...
...remind voters not only of his long opposition to offshore drilling but also of his long attachment to conservation-minded "growth management" as mayor of San Diego from 1971 to 1983. On the campaign trail he has ridden a trolley to show his support for fume-free mass transit and visited a motor vehicle factory to admire the prototype of a methanol-powered bus. At a country club in Santa Barbara -- as Republican a setting as any to be found in Southern California -- he assured a matronly audience, "An environmental ethic will pervade the administration of Governor Wilson from...
...case grew out of attempts by the Metropolitan Transit Authority to crack down on panhandling in New York City subway cars and stations, but the ruling has nationwide implications. Seeking to stem the proliferation of needy and homeless in a system that serves 1 billion passengers a year, the MTA last October launched its so-called Operation Enforcement. Within weeks, two homeless panhandlers -- Papa Joe Walley, 50, and William Young Jr., 40 -- complained to the Legal Action Center for the Homeless that they were being harassed by the police while begging in the subway. The center filed a class action...
...grab whatever savings result from defense cuts. Supply-siders will argue for more tax reductions. Others will want to spend more on the homeless, education or the war on drugs. States and local jurisdictions are bidding for repairs in the country's deteriorating infrastructure: roads and bridges, mass transit, pollution-abatement facilities. A good case can be made for increased foreign aid so that America's global position will not shrink along with its military...