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...have been here since January 1977 will be immediately eligible for permanent resident status; those here since January 1980 will be accorded tem porary resident status with the prospect of permanent status after three years. Neither group could collect most federal benefits for several years; the bill also proposes block grants for the states to help defray the costs of absorbing those who are granted amnesty...
...National Park and National Wildlife Refuge systems are exempt from consideration. So are Indian Trust lands and Wilderness areas, Wild and Scenic Rivers, National Trails, national conservation areas and certain other lands designated by Congress. This adds up to 400 million acres. Everything else can be put on the block. The surplus lands first will be assessed to determine their market value. Next they will be offered to other federal agencies, which may want to use them for different purposes. If there are no federal takers, the lands will be offered to state and local governments. Only after all government...
...offered. Often shrouded by fog, and surrounded on three sides by surging seas, the gray stone lighthouse looms like a medieval keep above the 33-acre site. The Coast Guard, which runs the station, is keeping the lighthouse, but the Interior Department is putting the surrounding property on the block anyway. The State of California would like to lease the site for use as a park or youth hostel, but does not want to buy it. Whoever does buy it will need to negotiate a right of way with a local rancher whose land abuts the lighthouse property. But anyone...
Myrtle Beach Air Force Base. On the block are two parcels, one within the base perimeter on busy U.S. Highway 17, the other on a bypass behind the base. The 51 acres are not eye pleasing, but local officials believe the land fronting Highway 17, across from a state park, could be worth as much as $750,000 to a commercial developer. The other parcel has already been used for a highway; 18 acres suitable for housing or commercial development remain...
Weird, heavy and polychrome, the 15-story Portland Building might be Sarastro's Temple of Isis magically transposed from some second-rate set for Mozart's The Magic Flute into the shadows of banal skyscrapers along Portland's Transit Mall. It takes up the entire block between the Italian Renaissance city hall and the neoclassical Multnomah County Courthouse...