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...mortar shell that slammed into Sarajevo's main downtown marketplace last week was timed to kill a maximum number of people: Saturday morning, the peak shopping period. In the worst single incident since violence broke out in the former Yugoslavia, at least 66 people were killed and 200 injured. Only the day before, 10 people died in a shelling in another part of the city. After Saturday's attack, newly installed U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry reiterated President Clinton's statement that the U.S. would not "permit the strangulation of Sarajevo...
URBAN DEVELOPMENT. The earthquake not only failed to shake but even reinforced Los Angeles' long-standing "golden towers" vision: that of an urban core of commercial skyscrapers surrounded by a redeveloped user-friendly downtown district. The so-called Downtown Strategic Plan has been under way for a dozen years at a cost so far of $7.5 billion. Its new buildings, dominated by the 73-story First Interstate Bank Tower, have been constructed with strong earthquakes in mind. Fire officials last week privately informed civilian volunteers that if the Big One hit near downtown, the new buildings ought to remain standing...
...brought on by eight collapsed segments of the freeway system was a headlong rush toward the information superhighway. Mayor Richard Riordan announced a grandiose plan to relieve traffic congestion by extensive "telecommuting" -- working from home with computers and faxes. He also spoke of creating "satellite office centers" outside the downtown districts. The Southern California Telecommuting Partnership was organized in the earthquake's aftermath. Its members, a coalition of businessmen and government officials, hope to make telecommuting a viable option for the city, bringing permanent change to the way its work force is organized. "This will become the country's most...
Ironically, the phenomenon is a return to the city's past. Before the unbridled freeway and suburban development of the 1950s and '60s, Los Angeles traveled on trolleys -- over an extended grid of 12 lines covering 1,500 miles. Metrolink and a complementary subway system under downtown to be completed in 1997 will eventually connect 70 stations across 400 miles of track -- a case of going back to the future...
EVERYONE LIKED RAYMOND LOUzoum. Children would stop to stare at the marionettes in the window of his optical shop in downtown Algiers. With his fair hair and blue eyes, the tall, garrulous Tunisian Jew was often mistaken for a Frenchman. During 30 years in the city, Louzoum even played the role of a French colonel in an Algerian film on the war of independence. But in a city where foreigners are now targeted for death by Islamic militants, few people were surprised when a young man walked into Louzoum's shop in broad daylight last week and shot him dead...