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...Eastman Avenue Elementary School in east Los Angeles, 1,550 children, nearly all Hispanic, fill the lunchroom with a clamorous din. Every single one of them eats free. Since more than 85% would qualify for no-cost meals anyway, the school had been excused from charging anybody until last year. Now, under new guidelines, it will have to charge students 75? for a full-fare lunch and 35? for a reduced-price meal. The school has not yet completed processing income-report forms from parents, however, so for the moment the free meals continue. The total cost of the Eastman...
...Sadat to argue that the campaign was anything but an across-the-board attack on the opposition. Also rounded up by police were a number of political figures and other notables-including Journalist Mohammed Heikal and the elderly head of the now-defunct New Wafd Party, Fuad Seraged-Din-who obviously had no connection with the incident in June. At the end of his address, Sadat ordered the suspension of seven opposition publications and the transfer of 67 journalists from state-owned newspapers and broadcasting services to less sensitive posts...
...reviews of Kramer were rapturous, and she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. But the din from feature writers eager to probe her personal life was oppressive to Streep, a private person who feels (following the fashion of Actor Robert De Niro and some lordly professional athletes) that newsprint could wrap fish even better if reporters did not go through the messy and wasteful process of putting...
...minimum wage of $3.35 an hour. Polish refugees have been found cleaning out oil-storage tanks in New Jersey for $2 an hour or less. At a small factory in Chicago, shifts of Mexicans working twelve-hour days keep two tortilla-making machines going around the clock. The din is deafening, and the heat from the ovens almost unbearable. Says one employee, a 25-year-old mother of two: "It's like hell...
...started," said one horrified eyewitness, "with a small snapping sound." Then the noise mounted, first seeming like a wrecking ball thudding against the sleek new building, and then like an explosion lashing through the crowded lobby. When the hideous din subsided, replaced by the muted cries of the injured and terrified, the carnage was staggering: 108 people lay dead in the atrium of the sleek, 40-story Hyatt Regency Hotel. More than 180 were injured, and at least three more died later. Some victims were pinned for hours beneath the tons of steel, cement and cables. Said Mayor Richard Berkley...