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...arrivals overran a 25-block area around the intersection of Wilshire and Alvarado. Their criminal specialties are small time: purse snatchings, storefront stickups, car thefts, burglaries. What distinguishes the offenses, however, is the viciousness with which they are carried out. When a robbery victim gave up his wallet to Cuban attackers but refused to yield his ring, they hung him from an iron fence by his hand. The ring came off; so did a finger. When a dog snapped at a passing Marielito, the man retaliated by stabbing its owner 17 times. "These are absolutely the meanest, most vicious criminals...
...statute is the only one of its kind in the U.S. Sergeant Bob Stocksdale of the state police's narcotics division is hopeful. "We're glad to see this law," he says. "If you get the narcotics dealer in the wallet, that will knock him down. But we just flat don't know yet how, or if, it will work...
...repeated endlessly. A German mountaineer who in his 20s spent three frightful weeks on the north face of the Eiger in Switzerland during midwinter laughs about the recollection and says that he does not do such things now that he is in his 30s. He pulls out his wallet like a traveling businessman and shows a picture of his wife and two sons. "This is what I think about...
...never thought a home run was as beautiful as a ball in the gap and Is he going to make it to second?' " Carew is aware that some people think he is inordinately fascinated with his batting average. From his wallet he plucks a gold card that reads, "For those who know me, no explanation is necessary; for those who don't, none is possible." After a pause, Carew says, "I don't need to be in the Hall of Fame to know what I've done, but maybe the election gives you a final sense...
...fury, one of the errant McGees, Colleen, 24, paid the full amount of the fines. But the space race remains. Suggests Commissioner Vitagliano jokingly: "Maybe someone will invent an inflatable car that you could drive into the city in the morning, deflate, then fold up and put in your wallet...