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...them agree that Harvard's plans represent the best of an undesirable lot. "It that's the way the cookie was going to crumble, this plan probably will cause the least problems," Olive Holmes, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, said. "This project will serve as a buffer and feather out disturbances from Parcel 1b," which will be built at about the same time as University Place, Holmes added...
...League of Nations mandate that the U.N. formally revoked in 1966. Since then, Pretoria has had to fight a low-key guerrilla war against some 8,000 members of the Marxist-dominated and Soviet-armed South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). South Africa values Namibia as a buffer zone against Marxist Angola, a SWAPO haven. With 20,000 troops in Namibia, the South Africans have launched sharp punitive raids against SWAPO camps in Angola...
...community representatives--including Cambridge mayor Francis H. Duehay '55--were shown Graduate School of Design models for the property. A preliminary design, announced last month, includes both office space--a source of revenue for Harvard--and housing which tapers to small houses on the neighborhood edge to provide the buffer desired by the community...
...University paid more than ever before for an undeveloped piece of land--almost $4 million--and from the beginning let everyone know it planned on recouping the investment. Its original plan was for housing, and that was good news to the neighbors, who saw the parking lot as a buffer between 1B and the adjoining upper class residential district. And the University also earned a certain amount of good will simply because it seemed a better developer than DiGiovanni, who had once proposed twin skyscrapers for the site...
...guerrillas as a staging area for attacks against northern Israel. Israel, in turn, has thrown its support to Haddad's 2,000-man militia and backed it up with deadly bomber attacks. The United Nations 6,000-man peacekeeping force (UNIFIL), dispatched in 1978 to act as a buffer, has often been caught in the bloodletting. Last week UNIFIL Commander Major General William Callaghan met separately with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Yasser Arafat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization, to try to get a ceasefire...