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...laser-controlled entrance gate to the property. Inside the Georgian-style house, paintings by Monet and Renoir adorn the walls, and valuable works dot a nearby sculpture garden. Recently Boesky applied to local town planners for permission to add a dome to the residence, to give it, said his architect, a more "Jeffersonian look...
...architect said he had not yet estimated the cost of the necessary renovations, but added that he expected the Marriott Corporation would not appeal the decision. Developer David Barrett of Boston Properties said that "We're not here to appeal anything--it was our intention to open a hotel that was in compliance" with the regulations...
...little effect, however. North Korea, a Soviet ally, has been among Iran's biggest sources of weapons. In addition, whether Shultz tried and failed to stop the U.S.-sanctioned shipment of arms to Iran or was kept in the dark about it, his stature as the chief architect of American foreign policy under President Reagan has been undermined...
Meanwhile, former national security adviser Robert C. McFarlane, reportedly the key architect of a policy to seek U.S. contacts with Iran, re-issued a statement he had made in Atlanta earlier in the week, in which he talked of America's "vital security interest in the independence of Iran...
...much at ease in a tailored business suit as in a traditional flowing Bedouin thobe, or lengthy shirt, Yamani was the chief architect of the 1973-74 OPEC oil embargo. That historic action, which drastically cut back OPEC exports to several Western nations, including the U.S., more than quadrupled oil prices within 15 months and caused a severe global slump and then nearly a decade of rising inflation. By 1979, however, OPEC was already slipping from Saudi control. In that year the fall of the Shah of Iran led to a second worldwide oil shock, which nearly doubled prices once...