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...just yesterday, Yale officials offered to invest $3 million to convert a downtown New Haven office lower into a hotel and convention center. The university is hoping the state will finance most of the project through grants and loans...
...residents of New Haven will also (out of more convenience) be more likely to spend their money in the city, giving a large and much-needed boost to New Haven's downtown retailers. Large department stores like Macy's may one day return to the abandoned storefronts that now litter the downtown area...
...P.L.O. representatives. Israeli officials had billed the ceremony as the "transfer of a police station," and TV cameras came out in force to record the event. Little matter ( that most of the 50 Israeli police who until recently slept there had already moved into other, more comfortable quarters downtown. The Israel Defense Forces fidgeted, guns at the ready, glancing at their watches as they eyed the restive crowd. Citing snags in the Cairo negotiations between Israel and the P.L.O., Yasser Arafat's representative sent word at the last minute that he could not accept the building. When the crowd learned...
...arts and media editor, Collins will indulge his passion for culture -- high and low -- full time. A film addict, a native New Yorker who spent his adolescence in downtown jazz clubs and whiles away his grownup years at the opera, Collins brings an intellectually charged hipness to TIME's cultural coverage. "I'm interested in what you might call the culture business and the decisions that are made at movie studios and publishing houses and record companies that affect what people see and read and listen to," he explains...
...with Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who continues to threaten a boycott of the April 26-28 elections and to hold out for autonomy from the national government. Rival African National Congress head Nelson Mandela endorsed De Klerk's move. Earlier in the week, a march past A.N.C. headquarters in downtown Johannesburg by members of Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party turned into one of the bloodiest battles in the city's history; on Saturday suspected Zulu nationalists attacked a church in a Natal A.N.C. stronghold, killing three...