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Several organizations protested the city's low selling price in its 1986 sale of the Commonwealth Armory to BU. The university plans to construct about 1000 beds of student housing on the armory site...
Most community groups are satisfied with the present agreement because a majority of the new housing, including the proposed Commonwealth Armory dormitory, will be within the boundaries of the campus, said Henry Ragin, one of the task force's three chairmen and president of the Brighton-Allston Improvement Association...
According to the approved plan, in addition to building on the armory site, the university will built a dormitory at 1019 Commonwealth Ave. and convert one of its office buildings, Rich Hall, into student quarters...
...addition to giving Boston $100 million, Congress will give nearly $620 million to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, part of which will be allocated to Boston through special grants...
During the first half of 1986, Mandela had three visits from the seven- member Eminent Persons Group, which the Commonwealth countries sent to South Africa to try to advance a negotiated settlement. Mandela told the group that he was confident he could unify the rival black organizations and bring them into talks with the government. He stressed his commitment to a nonracial state that would provide security to whites and all minorities. Finally, he promised that once he was released, he and his ANC colleagues would tour the country's black townships, urging an end to violence and supporting negotiations...