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...devastating earthquake had hit Mexico City. The quake's force, measured at 7.8 on the Richter scale, was the world's most severe since a tremor measuring 7.8 struck the coast of Chile last March. In four chaotic minutes, an estimated 250 buildings collapsed in downtown Mexico City; 50 more were later judged dangerously close to falling, and the condition of 1,000 others was regarded as unsafe...
...said that while Boston's investment environment is highly favorable, downtown corporate wealth is not finding its way to the city's neighborhoods...
Flynn cited as an example the requirement that commercial developers who want to build on choice downtown real estate also rehabilitate less desirable land. He also praised job-training programs for helping decrease the gap between the city's haves and have-nots...
...again. I think it's justifiable. Such a poor attitude. Hey, we're in this game to win. Don't tell me it's a college atmosphere. This is an atmosphere that creates people for the future. I want to see him when he graduates and goes to work downtown Wall St. and does three things that he did today and see how long he's going to work for that company...
...turmoil in El Salvador took an especially ugly turn last week when Ines Guadelupe Duarte Duran, the 35-year-old daughter of President Jose Napoleon Duarte, was kidnaped by several armed assailants in downtown San Salvador, the capital. Duarte Duran, a divorced mother of three and the oldest of the President's six children, was seized outside the New San Salvador University, where she has been studying public relations. Ana Cecilia Villeda, a 23-year- old student and Duarte Duran's former secretary, was also abducted. One of Duarte Duran's two bodyguards was killed by gunfire; the other...