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...Renaissance Center stands as a symbol of what is possible when people who live and work in a city combine their efforts toward a common goal." So said Michigan Governor William Milliken five years ago of Detroit's new $357 million cluster of five glass towers, a 32-acre complex aimed at reviving the city's decaying downtown area. Now Ren Cen stands as a symbol of hard times. The center defaulted last week on its mortgage debt of more than $200 million by failing to make a scheduled payment of $10 million...
...first assignment in early 1978 was to cover the Jerusalem Peace Talks between Begin and the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. House spent a tiresome morning waiting outside the conference room with a cluster of other reporters, only to have an official dictate a statement announcing that the talks had adjourned for the day. That afternoon, House did some sightseeing and retired to her hotel to get ready to go out to dinner. The phone rang. Her predecessor on the diplomatic beat, at that time foreign editor in Cairo, wanted to know why Sadat had returned home so early when...
...loses $16 million 'T is the season when the beautiful people cluster at one of their favorite In places, the Spanish Mediterranean resort of Marbella, just west down the coast from Malaga. Clustering there too this Christmas, alas for them, were the creme de la creme of criminals. When Francisco Yelamo, director of the Marbella branch of the Banco de Andalucia, unlocked his bank on the town's main street, the Avenida de Ricardo Soriano, at the end of the Christmas holiday early last week, he opened the doors on a burglary so thorough that it rocked...
...bulldozer rakes up a wood plank or a cluster of twisted steel supports, someone will claim it and try to build a hut around it. There are women of all ages. There are children everywhere, who chase one another through the ruins and occasionally, oblivious to the danger, scramble into the shovels of the moving UNRWA tractors. One sees few men. Some are dead; others have been detained by the Israelis, who still make sorties into the camp in search of Palestine Liberation Organization suspects. One of those imprisoned was Hodrasadi's son Ibrahim, 18, who had recently undergone...
Despite the harsh conditions, most Vietnamese say they prefer living in NW 82 to returning to Viet Nam. Indeed, more than 600 land people cluster around hospitals in three border camps, hoping to get into NW 82. Says Nguyen Quoc Khanh, 41, a former lieutenant in the South Vietnamese army, whom the Communists sent to a jungle work camp for three years: "If we can get into NW 82, perhaps we can eventually get on a resettlement list. If you lived in South Viet Nam, you would understand why people have to flee. If it takes three years, I will...