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Intervention Offers Hope Where Police and Border Crackdowns Fail
Times Staff WritersInside the locked gates of a county juvenile detention facility in Sylmar, all eyes are on Ernesto "Satan" Deras. Before him are two dozen teenagers accused of violent crimes and facing the prospect of being tried as adults and sent to state prison....Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Minority Groups, Family, Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Military
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Official foreign tourist offices
Here is a list of selected government tourist offices. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-1234; dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. delegation. Anguilla: Anguilla Tourist Board, (800) 553-...Tags: Paraguay, Indonesia, Russia, Republic of Ireland, France
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How Jorge Mendoza and His Gang Ruled the Train Tops
BY SONIA NAZARIO, TIMES STAFF WRITER "We ask for money to take people to the U.S. on top of our trains," says Jorge Mauricio Mendoza Pineda, 24, describing what he and his Mara Salvatrucha gang do in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. "They give me...Tags: Mexico, Crimes, Gang Activity, Crime, Law and Justice, Death
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Part of the Flock Felt Abandoned by the Pope
Times Staff WritersLA MORA, El Salvador — Half a world away, millions of people came together last week to mourn Pope John Paul II, but you'll hear no tearful elegies from believers such as Nery Amaya, a Catholic for all of her 28 years. As she made the rounds as a...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Bogota (Colombia), The Pope, Rome (Italy), Crimes
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Why supervisors let deadly problems slide
Times Staff WriterOn the sultry evening of Aug. 11, 1965, a 21-year-old black man named Marquette Frye was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol at 116th Street and Avalon Boulevard for driving drunk. A crowd gathered. Frye resisted arrest. A patrolman struck him...Tags: University of Southern California, Richard V Allen, Roderick Wright, Minority Groups, Mervyn Dymally
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We Don't [Love] Stinkin' Yankee Running Dog Warmongers
To some, the United States is a global protector, to others it's a predatory "hyperpower." As President Bush tours Europe this week, he'll no doubt gather mental postcards of some fairly large crowds. Will the faces be smiling or contorted in rage? How...Tags: Armed Conflicts, International Military Interventions, Heads of State, Kim Dae Jung, Labor Legislation
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Foreign government tour offices
For tourist information on select foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. For a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-1234, dial 0 and ask for the country's U.N. mission or delegation. Anguilla: Anguilla Tourist...Tags: Paraguay, Indonesia, Russia, Office Equipment and Supplies, Republic of Ireland
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Foreign Government Tourist Offices
Here is a list of selected government tourist offices. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-1234; dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. delegation. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD The...Tags: Paraguay, Indonesia, Russia, Aventura, Republic of Ireland
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Foreign government tourist offices
Here is a list of selected government tourist offices. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-1234; dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. delegation. Anguilla: Anguilla Tourist Board, P.O. Box 1388,...Tags: Coral Gables, Paraguay, Indonesia, Russia, Republic of Ireland
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The Poor Have More Things Today -- Including Wild Income Swings
Times Staff Writer"The poor are not like everyone else," social critic Michael Harrington wrote in the 1962 bestseller "The Other America," which helped shape President Johnson's War on Poverty. "They are a different kind of people," he declared. "They think and feel...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Robert F. Kennedy, University of California, Los Angeles, Richard Nixon, Freddie Mac
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From the archives: Gangs find fresh turf in Salvador
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe teen-agers crowding at the edge of the central plaza flash hand signs, share a marijuana joint and swap stories of the previous night's exploits. Dressed in baggy pants, their arms and chests covered with tattoos, their hair slicked back, they speak a...Tags: Immigration, Organized Crime, Crimes, Illegal Immigrants, Sociology
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Pages Open for Dunne, Didion
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAs John Dunne sees it, a writer's life has two states: writing and having written. Right now Dunne is in the latter one and relieved. He finished his book, "The Red, White and Blue," on April 6, 1986, at 2:06 in the afternoon, he says with his passion for...Tags: Alan Bergman, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Alfred Kazin, Richard Nixon, Journalism
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