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Those two fell years ago to the wrecking ball, and now it looks as if the Garden Court may go the same way. After granting the building historic landmark status last year, the Los Angeles city council will soon decide whether to allow a local developer to demolish the four-story structure and put up a 16-story office building on the site...
...controversy now swirling about the Garden Court might easily be one of the screenplays hatched within its walls years ago. The list of characters is pure Hollywood. C-D Investment Co., a huge real estate developer, attempted to demolish the Garden Court without a city permit last year because, as a C-D employee explained to the city council, "she was a beautiful old lady, but now she's gone. Someone has to pull the plug...
...lyric from the score of The Unsinkable Molly Brown-"Nobody wants me down like I wants me up"-had special meaning last week along the waterfront in Mobile, Ala. To make way for a $15 million port expansion, the city fathers decided to demolish a five-story riverfront warehouse. A TV crew was invited to watch the fun as engineers planted 150 Ibs. of dynamite around the foundation. Then a mighty roar and a cloud of dust-but only the first floor was blown out. The rest dropped onto the foundation intact. The next day workmen tried again. And again...
...occupation. When a patrol of Israeli soldiers arrives, it is greeted by a barricade of flaming tires and a barrage of stones In Hebron. Jews from a nearby settlement roam the streets, machine guns in hand, smashing the glass from Arab cars and shop fronts In Nablus, Israeli bulldozers demolish 20 Arab houses in retaliation for a bomb blast at a Jewish shop. In Elon Moreh, illegally situated Jewish settlers set up barbed wire to resist the Israeli soldiers who have to be sent in to remove them The picture that emerges from Halabi's assembled reports...
...Administration would like to virtually demolish the effectiveness of the bill through one clause is particular. Prior to a 1980 Supreme Court decision, plaintiffs in voting rights cases had to prove only that the laws were enforced in such a way that their effect was discriminatory. Courts would consider a number of factors to determine whether a law impaired a minority's right to vote. The House bill would reestablish this standard. But the Administration seeks to reaffirm at best the standard enunciated is Mobile v. Bolden (180)-which said that a plaintiff had to prove an invent to discriminate...