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...actions of an intoxicated patron after he has left the premises. At the same time, liberalizing court decisions have made more and more institutions open to lawsuits for the conduct of others. Among the favorite targets: apartment-and office-building landlords, hotels, hospitals, schools, manufacturers and municipal transit systems...
Last year, Mayotte made it as far as the semis at Wimbledon, his best performance to date. Despite torrential rains, a transit strike and a hectic schedule which forced him to play every day of the tourney's week. Mayotte made history in London last year, becoming one of the four players--a group that includes the likes of McEnroe. Borg, and Conners--to make it to the Wimbledon semis by age 21 McEnroe ended Mayotte's championship hopes last year, but not his spirits. The Springfield native returns to London next month to try again...
Just a few months later, in New York, three Black transit workers stopped their car in the white neighborhood of Gravesend to get a midnight snack on the way home from work. A gang of white men attacked them; Dennis Dixon fled, and Donald Cooper escaped with the help of a piece of pipe. Their friend and co-worker, William Turks, whose arm was in a cast, was not so lucky. The whites dragged him from the car, and killed him with what was officially described as "overlapping blows to the head by a blunt object like a stick...
...passage, some House Democrats sought to turn the legislation into a March Christmas tree. The House Appropriations Committee, while drafting the bill, tacked on a $110 million assortment of mass-transit projects for committee members' districts that gave Republicans plenty to complain about. "This bill is frenzied feeding at the public trough," fumed Republican Judd Gregg of New Hampshire. But Democrat-sponsored floor amendments ultimately struck the offending provision, substituted $171 million in mass-transit aid, and required that $1.8 billion of the final bill be spent in the nation's deepest pockets of unemployment...
...refugees-- kicked out of their adopted country-- were told by their homeland that they were not welcome. The military government of Ghana-- which had sealed its borders to prevent smuggling-- refused at first to readmit the sudden influx of its own citizens. Ghana eventually did relent, setting up "transit camps" to record the masses. But the exodus is still a painful one, as many refugees are starving, and at least one person has already died...