Word: downtowners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most reporters rely on Honduran sources or travel the four hours to Las Trojes to interview refugees from the border fighting. Some check in regularly at the U.S. embassy, a heavily guarded building on a hill overlooking downtown Tegucigalpa, but officials there are generally wary of the press. "This region is the kindergarten of overseas journalism," complains a veteran officer. "A lot of the people working in this area are young and committed and out to crucify U.S. policy to advance their careers. They don't care about ground rules or anything. So I am less open than I would...
...similar fashion, James Rouse's Enterprise Foundation is providing funding to almost 70 nonprofit housing groups around the country. Rouse, known nationally for his role in revitalizing downtown Boston and the Baltimore Harbor, envisions a national network of neighborhood housing initiatives supported by entities like Enterprise but also backed by federal funding. "The initiative would come from us, but the Government would make available the funds that are so desperately needed," says Rouse. Groups like Enterprise particularly want Congress to approve a $150 million second- mortgage fund similar to the one used in the Nehemiah program...
...next day a third pipe bomb exploded in downtown Salt Lake City. This time, however, the victim survived -- and eventually became the prime suspect in the two murders. Authorities believed Mark Hofmann, a dealer in rare documents, many on early Mormon history, had been injured while setting a bomb in his own car, possibly to direct suspicion away from himself. Last week the 15-month investigation against Hofmann came to a close when he pleaded guilty to reduced charges of second-degree murder in the bombings and to two counts of theft by deception for selling forged or nonexistent documents...
...pistol-wielding terrorists. Three days later, Alfred Schmidt, an engineer for Siemens, the giant West German electronics firm, was rousted from bed in his hotel room at gunpoint. He was led away wearing only his pajamas and a leather jacket. On Friday, two more men were kidnaped in downtown West Beirut. Police later said they were Lebanese Armenians, not West Germans as claimed earlier by the kidnapers. Finally, on Saturday night, a well-organized band of machine-gun-toting thugs pulled off the week's most daring escapade. Disguised as Lebanese police, they drove unchallenged onto the campus of Beirut...
Finally, we arrived in downtown Chapstick and Sunglasses. The city was about 50 miles square. On one side of the highway were tubes of chapstick as far as the eye could see. In some places, the tubes were piled high; in others, they nestled in small private communities. Blistex had its own private beach club...