Two weeks later, the everyday in Kenya arrived with a vengeance when the couple were attacked by four men in their high-security apartment complex.
Two weeks into their visit, the couple were attacked by four men in their high-security apartment complex.
As for tenants, many Chinese, fearing for their lives, have left their private houses and villas for the relative security of apartments, where there are armed guards.
Correction: March 10 , 2002 Sunday The "Your Home" column last Sunday, about security in apartment buildings, misspelled the surname of a lawyer who commented on the importance of having an emergency plan.
Toward that end, police counterterrorism officials were contacting hotel security and apartment management officials about their ventilation systems, telling them to focus on roof or basement access, recent repairs and any suspicious people, a senior law enforcement official said.
"Ten years ago we hadn't had any middle class," he said, just a group of workers struggling to secure cars, apartments and financial security for their families.
So like my mother and grandfather, who showed up here in their twenties, the young arrive all over again, even though they can barely afford the security deposits on apartments.
"With all of the hullabaloo, should we have security at our apartment?" Ms. Black asked.
Eimy Aguilar, 15, said the police had restored security to the apartment building where she lives.
A friend alerted security at her apartment complex after she failed to show up for a lunch appointment and having not updated her Twitter account for 19 hours.
