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True to its nonconformist heritage, the town board is studying a novel solution: setting aside an acre of land and selling "plots" for $10 a square inch. If the plan is given the go-ahead, which may come as early as August, prospective buyers -- many of them probably nostalgic hippies...
On his answering machine at his 60-acre ranch in Sonoma County, Calif., Keen sings Cole Porter's Don't Fence Me In. Keen grew up in Alabama, Tennessee and Delaware ("more Huck Finn than Holden Caulfield," he says in his high- pitched foghorn of a voice) and has a...
But the initiatives are there. Eastern entrepreneurs, including former communist managers, are adapting with surprising speed and energy to the market system. Detlef Naujokat, 49, a former food and beverage manager for an East Berlin hotel, has launched a $30 million real estate development in the village of Sommerfeld, 19...
To the chagrin of many, it was Escobar who arranged his own fate. For several weeks, he negotiated with the government through an intermediary to settle the fine points of his incarceration. He personally selected a jail that boasts virtually impregnable security. The facility has in recent weeks been encircled...
In the countryside the Sandinistas grabbed ranches and farms. Wilfredo Lopez Palma, an assembly deputy, took 2,650 acres in the department of Rivas. Luis Felipe Perez, the Sandinista mayor of the city of Leon, acquired a 600-acre farm. Mario Hurtado Jimenez, who headed the state Corporation of Aviculture...