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<text id=89TT1145>
<title>
May 01, 1989: American Notes:California
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
May 01, 1989 Abortion
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 43
American Notes
CALIFORNIA
The Great Wall Of Long Beach
</hdr><body>
<p> Good fences make good neighbors," says a line by Robert
Frost. At Long Beach's Lindbergh Junior High School, the idea
was to keep out some very bad neighbors. For years, outdoor gym
classes have been endangered by bullets, bottles and even an
arrow from the neighboring Carmelitos housing project. One
student was shot while playing basketball in the Lindbergh
school yard two years ago. A year later, gym teacher Joan Reedy
had to hustle her class into the building when a bullet whizzed
past her ear.
</p>
<p> After community leaders proved unable to cool the violence,
school officials decided to bulletproof the school. Last week
workmen began building a 10-ft.-high, 900-ft.-long concrete
wall to shield Lindbergh from the housing project. Cost:
$100,000.
</p>
</body></article>
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