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...days a dollar will buy more than 1,500 kwanza on the black market, or 50 times as much as at the official exchange rate. At bank rates, a sack of potatoes costs $100. Some 750,000 squatters jam the garbage-filled streets of Luanda, where many scrounge through trash cans for food and live in shacks. Even a confidential Soviet report on the capital acknowledged its "sense of hopelessness...
...without producing a bulge. Equipped with a magnetic switch on a cigarette lighter to activate the recorder, Lofaro coolly discussed Gambino family affairs with the unsuspecting Gotti brothers. Afterward he placed the tapes inside folded copies of the New York Times business section and dropped them in a preselected trash bin. Lofaro provided the Government with more than 50 tapes over two years. Says one admiring investigator: "You can't help wondering how many sleepless nights he spent knowing that if caught he would get a slow cutting job by a knife expert...
...search of bargains. Thus the sidewalk in front of the store was bustling last week at 5:28 p.m., when two black-mustachioed men in a black BMW drove past. As the car slowed down, the man on the passenger side got out and dropped a package into a trash can near the front door. He quickly hopped back into the car and rode off. A few seconds later an explosion shattered the happy sounds of shoppers. "There was simply a noise, very loud, then the screams of the people," recalled a witness. In an instant the sidewalk was littered...
...sector of the red-tiled capital of Tegucigalpa, the walls are scarred with angry slogans. DEATH TO COMMUNISM, the bloodred graffiti say. OUT, SOVIET TRASH! On the other side of the city, not far from the main drag of pizza parlors and Dunkin' Donuts outlets, where Madonna's hit Papa Don't Preach squeals from every radio, the signs say, AMERICAN MURDERERS OUT and OUT, YANKEE TRASH! Somewhere in the middle, there are a few quieter and more plaintive messages: PEACE...
High-spirited partiers faced a dearth of trash containers, and the result was unsightly trash surrounding drunken carousers...