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...little desire to meet anywhere they could be seen by KGB types. (Russians still call the secret police the KGB, even though the domestic side of the agency has been renamed the Federal Counterintelligence Service.) Nor could they afford to be spotted by anyone from the vast, amorphous gang of criminals and hustlers that make up the Russian mafia. Only a few months ago, one of the Russians explained apologetically, the hotel manager had been killed because he failed to show the local mafia proper deference. "They didn't shoot him; they cut him and broke his bones to teach...
...left open, with twine flapping loose; someone had apparently tied a gun inside but hastily wrenched it loose. Inside apartments, the officer relates, he has found cocaine in a container of Comet cleanser, guns hidden inside toilets and, once, under water in a mop bucket. And that was when gang members agreed to let him in, thinking they had hidden drugs and firearms so cleverly that Ghost would pronounce their quarters clean. Imagine what he might find if he could just bust into any apartment he wanted...
...claims to be representing: the tenants of public-housing projects. In the Robert Taylor Homes just south of Stateway Gardens, Ray Goodwin, 9, describes how one of his friends was gunned down on the monkey bars in a neighborhood playground "because he didn't want to be in a gang." Says Goodwin: "I want the sweeps. There be too many guns in our buildings." Around Easter they went off at an especially horrifying rate: after a truce between the Black Disciples and Gangster Disciples gangs apparently broke down, police recorded more than 300 shooting incidents in the Robert Taylor Homes...
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, however, called these actions "empty, hollow, gestures," and claimed that "a gang of settlers did the shooting...and Israeli soldiers later opened fire on the worshippers" (an unfounded claim since disproven by the commission of inquiry). Arafat then led a Palestinian withdrawal from the peace process...
That sense of infinite possibilities may be the show's chief appeal. In most TV dramas, as in life, people are bound by their pasts and by forces outside their control -- family history, social status, money. Nothing like that for the footloose Melrose gang. They start relationships and end them, move to New York and back again, become prostitutes and shoot ex-boyfriends -- then dust themselves off and start on the next life adventure. Melrose Place is full of the bustle of people to whom things constantly happen, yet who keep reinventing themselves. It's TV's ultimate declaration...