Isn't there a better way to handle this? Five shooting wars later, Lt. Col. Curtis Welborn Jr., U.S. Army, ret., remains doggedly determined to hold the high ground. In this instance, it's a tiny apartment in a Near North high-rise, where the 89-year-old and his wife have lived for a decade. Management wants them out by May 31. Wellborn says he's been told it's because of bedbugs. But he sees the affair as a matter of honor — a sense shaped by military service that began in a World War II bomber. Small in stature but martial in bearing, he answers the phone with a crisp flourish: "Col. Welborn here." He doesn't deny the bedbugs, but says they came from next door — retreating to regroup, as it were, when that apartment was fumigated. Besides, he says, he was the one who brought the matter to light by calling the city's help line, about a year ago. He thought it a top-secret communication. Evidently the building inspector didn't. "311 betrayed me," Welborn said. "We were threatened with eviction."
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