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Aug. 13, 1990: American Notes:New York City
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Aug. 13, 1990 Iraq On The March
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 49
American Notes
NEW YORK CITY
Children: In Harm's Way
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<p> Even New Yorkers, inured to their city's escalating
violence, were shocked: four children dead just because they
happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Veronica
Corales, 9, was asleep in her parents' car. Yaritima Fruto, 1,
was sitting in her mother's lap in an auto stopped in traffic.
Ben Williams, 3, was asleep in his family's apartment. Rayvon
Jamison, 9 months, was playing in a walker in his grandmother's
kitchen. In a span of nine days, all were struck by random
shots fired from 9-mm semiautomatic pistols, which have become
the favorite weapon of drug runners and neighborhood gangs.
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<p> "There is no fistfighting anymore," complained a frightened
neighbor of one of the victims. "If they have a confrontation,
they go get their guns." Mayor David Dinkins vowed that his
city "would not roll over" to the killers. But at week's end
14-year-old Shamel Knight was gunned down in a dispute over a
Moped.
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