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...commitment to build open housing is not enough. The University should then sit down with city and neighborhood leaders and plan development of the site. Those talks should stress the need for minimum density use of the parcel, so that it can serve as a buffer between existing neighborhoods and the planned commercial development of Parcel 1B. Finally, Harvard should include a mix of moderate and low income units in the housing it eventually builds on the site...
...position to send troops into the country, but it could help out with air and sea power. One congressional leader privy to White House thinking said: "We feel that we have a stake in Yugoslavia's continued position of relative independence, as a buffer between the dominated satellites and the West. We are at some pains to ensure that the Russians not seize on the illness of Tito in he mistaken belief that Yugoslavia is not completely stable...
...tribute to Afghanistan, a barren moonscape of a land at the "crossroads of the world," and to its proud and savage people. Conquered by Alexander the Great in the 4th century B.C. and by Genghis Khan in the 13th century A.D., Afghanistan in the Victorian era served as a buffer between Imperial Russia and the British raj. The Afghans accepted it all, but they exacted a bloody price. For generations, the Hindus of India prayed for deliverance from "the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger and the vengeance of the Afghan...
...midnight rally Thursday about 1,000 students, aligned with the leftist Islamic Mujahedin-e Khalq (People's Crusaders), tried to stage a demonstration but found themselves confronting a group of right-wing Islamic extremists. Moderates crying "Allahu akbar!" (God is great) quickly moved in to act as a buffer between the two groups...
...Andy Young: an unauthorized meeting with P.L.O. sympathizers in Gaza. Unlike Young, Dayan kept his job. The Israelis say their aims in southern Lebanon are threefold: to force the Palestinian guerrillas to leave the area, to help the enclave of Lebanese Christians and Shi'ites survive in a buffer zone along the border, and to strengthen Israel's bargaining position in any future negotiations with Syria concerning the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The Israelis claim that Palestinian terrorists attempted 27 raids on Israeli territory from Lebanon in the past four months, and that each time the Palestinians were...