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- <text id=90TT1634>
- <title>
- June 25, 1990: American Notes:Detroit
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- DETROIT
- Derailed by Success
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- <body>
- <p> Perhaps because victories come so rarely, they seem to
- unhinge the residents of Detroit. When the Tigers won the World
- Series in 1984, more than 100,000 fans ran deliriously into the
- streets, burning cars and looting shops. Each Halloween
- provides another excuse for Detroiters to vent high spirits,
- leaving extensive property damage in their wake. Last week,
- after the Pistons won a second straight professional-basketball
- championship, success once again proved more than Detroit could
- safely handle. In a long night of celebrations punctuated by
- gunfire, eight people were killed.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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