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That feeling was bolstered last week by a Washington Post report that Assistant Secretary of State Thomas O. Enders, chief architect of the State Department's policy toward El Salvador, had recommended to the National Security Council that negotiations with the guerrillas get under way. The Post report was quickly disavowed, however, by State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg. Said Romberg: "We oppose negotiations over power sharing." Despite that denial, signs pointed to another round of political infighting over El Salvador...
Construction of the Fogg Art Museum's controversial $8.5 million extension is proceeding on schedule, but a lawsuit filed in Great Britain has again raised questions about the reliability and competence of the new wing's architect...
...defense: When Japan became independent [of the Allied powers in 1952], it was totally without arms and depended entirely on the U.S. But remember, I am the architect of the Defense Agency Establishment Law and the Self-Defense Forces Law [which allow for limited Japanese armed forces]. Our self-defense capability has continued to improve, and the operation of the Japan-U.S. security treaty has been undergoing changes. What Japan can do is strengthen our own capabilities to defend the Japanese archipelago, and we can and are giving the fullest cooperation in consultation with the U.S. in deploying [forces...
Within the nine-story Hart Building, Warnecke has created a vast 100-ft.-high skylit atrium of the kind that Architect Kevin Roche pioneered at the Ford Foundation headquarters in New York City. This eliminates the endless, oppressive corridors of other congressional buildings and lets additional daylight into the offices, which are entered from open galleries surrounding the atrium. Unlike the Ford Foundation's atrium, which sports a lush tropical garden, the Hart Building's inner court is as yet a marble void. Plans for a huge sculpture by Alexander Calder (the last he designed before he died...
...Italian Renaissance architect Filarete said more than 500 years ago, "Some buildings cannot be constructed without great expense, but magnanimous and great princes, and republics as well, should not hold back from building great and beautiful buildings... When they are completed, there is neither more nor less money in the country, but the building does remain ... together with its reputation and honor...