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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...assistant, Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch, to mediate the Korean boycott, Lynch angered the demonstrators by walking into one of the stores without first talking with them. After that bumpy start, however, Dinkins' men managed to keep both sides talking, and an end to the boycott appeared to be in sight...
...emergency room at Booth Memorial in Queens, N.Y. It's the indignity. "Forty- year-old people come in with terminal cancer, and this is where they die," says Dr. Mark Henry. "With the lights on, no privacy, no curtains, with their bedpans and medical charts in clear sight of other patients and their relatives forced to crowd around their gurney...
While this was going on, Lusia's friend Natasha Gesse, who was looking after me while Lusia was gone, caught sight of the pistol and told the landlady, "Pretend you're taking out the garbage and go tell the policeman that drunks are in the apartment and that they've got a pistol...
Whenever I left the building, my KGB tails would shadow me. I came to know many by sight. When I walked in the woods, I more than once flushed an observer hiding behind a tree, who would then dash away. We were prevented from making long-distance calls; whenever we went to a post office to do so, the phones were "out of order" -- KGB shadows had been there ahead of us. Once I managed to make a call by carrying out a trash can, dropping it off and continuing to a post office. From that day on, a policeman...
...Tanya and Efrem's anniversary, and we looked forward to clinking glasses with Mark Kovner when he stopped by later in the day: mineral water in our glasses, vodka in his. While we were taking our 1 o'clock walk on the terrace, we caught sight of a man inside our apartment -- a KGB agent whose face was familiar. We hurried in from the terrace and saw that eight people had invaded the living room and entry hall. At least some, if not all, were from the KGB. Most were wearing white coats. Lusia said, "They've come to kill...