They catch him and lock him up in the old slum building, and they force him to expose drug deals around the town.

Not only was their dustheap to be removed, but much of the slum building that surrounded it.

The kind of people you have in the ancient, run-down slum buildings like R.C.A. and Empire State would have pulled me down if I'd taken their eye.

Then the slum buildings the poor left could be torn down to create the open space that the Maharishi believes is the key to health.

The ghetto areas have nothing but rotten slum buildings, nothing at all, and businessmen are afraid to move in, so the blacks come downtown for stores and restaurants.

Some 200 slum buildings are coming down.

"There's nothing around here but slum buildings and drug dealers," she said.

As unattractive as slum buildings and hardly less cramped than packing crates, the huts were nonetheless dependable and secure against the wind.

For example, the principal exteriors on East 11th Street were a bit too upscale for the look needed for Lou Kritski's slum building.

It's still a slum building.