Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opens on May 1? Simple: seven years ago, a group of high-rolling local businessmen started thinking that a Knoxville World's Fair would be a nifty thing to whip up. Local citizens were dubious, and some are now peeved. But what was not long ago a desolate downtown patch of rail sidings and weeds is now a nearly complete 77-acre complex of gleaming pavilions, an aerial tramway, a fabric-covered amphitheater and a quarter-mile-long pit that will soon be World's Fair Lake. The fair's signature structure: the Sunsphere, a steel shaft...
...strength of D'Aubuisson's appeal was the major surprise of the election campaign. At ARENA'S final election rally, held last week in the cavernous national gymnasium in downtown San Salvador, some 16,000 supporters jammed the building, decked out in red-white-and-blue ARENA hats and T shirts. The audience cheered wildly when D'Aubuisson appeared, looking pale and nervous after a recent death threat. He was flanked by three heavily armed bodyguards. At the rally, three mariachi bands competed to see which could present the best campaign song. The winning entry declared...
...Colo., the three county commissioners voted earlier this month to revoke their endorsement of a nuclear-disaster evacuation plan proposed for their city by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which administers the nation's civil defense programs. The switch came after more than 1,000 residents crammed into a downtown theater and listened as speakers denounced the plans as "a grave joke" and "an illusion." Said Betsy Moen, professor of sociology at the University of Colorado: "The plan doesn't even mention radiation. Once a bomb is launched, it will be an all-out war and no community...
Ferndale and Harper Woods, nine miles from downtown, are battered. Although the death toll is low, at least a third of the population of 43,000 of the two towns have been wounded. In front yards, suburbanites watch tree trunks smolder. Because the havoc is not total, the prospect of civil disorder may be great. Hospitals are intact, with doctors on duty and painkillers in stock. But from all over the city, 600,000 injured are begging or simply seizing the tiny supply of medical aid. Hysteria spreads as drivers crowd all three major highways leading from...
...tintype of armed repression and political turmoil, a fitting symbol for the upheaval of the decade. Staccato bursts of gunfire echoed through the streets. Clouds of tear gas hung in the air. A phalanx of blue-shirted policemen, equipped with gas masks and steel helmets, blocked the avenue in downtown Guatemala City. They trained their rifles on the six unarmed men who were advancing, like prisoners of war, with their arms held high. One of them clutched a large manila folder. Its contents: a letter to Guatemala's outgoing President, General Fernando Romeo Lucas García, charging fraud in last...