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...food was unpalatable. the toilets stank. Bathrooms flooded, and accommodations were cramped. Delegates in wheelchairs found themselves assigned to upper-floor, walk-up meeting rooms. Confusion prevailed over the times and places of workshops. Shuttle buses appeared and vanished erratically. Meanwhile, the ever-present Chinese security agents, in plainclothes or uniform, acted with all too much efficiency. They tailed visitors, photographed gatherings, searched rooms and bags, confiscated documents and videotapes, stopped peaceful protests, detained some journalists and on the whole created an intimidating atmosphere. To top things off, even the heavens glowered, sending forth rain that churned...
...Eddie Ellis, and why has he been writing this humongous saga? A onetime newspaper and wire-service reporter, Ellis, 84, has lived for the past 28 years in a book-crammed (15,000 volumes) walk-up apartment in Manhattan's Chelsea district. Slowed by age and emphysema, he rarely ventures from home but is still full of vim and spunk; he spends an hour or more each day adding to the diaries, typing on an old Hermes manual...
Home is a rundown walk-up in Old Havana, where filth clings to peeling plaster and the reek of garbage sticks in the throat. Makeshift walls, festooned with frayed electric wires, subdivide the old apartments into tiny windowless warrens. When we arrive early one morning, she is locked behind massive doors. A woman with the face of a Madonna stares impassively over the half door to her dark flat. Down the hall another head pokes out: the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution has taken note of our arrival...
...Democrat on the line for the President, Gore walked in, took the phone and softened up the Congressman by reminding him of a fund raiser Gore had for him in 1988. Oftimes when congressional leaders call the Oval Office, Clinton uses the speakerphone and puts Gore on. In a walk-up to the first budget vote, Gore spent only five minutes to bag a Southern Senator that no one else had been able to move. The President joked that Gore was the person who, after others had tried, always managed...
Many people cite the mixture of people who livein the area as the key to the neighborhood'sappeal. Working-class people, professors,students, and senior citizens all reside in thesmall area of century-old, walk-up homes...