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B.Y.U.'s Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies opened quietly in 1968, operating in various rented quarters and offering semester-long courses to students from the main Utah campus. In 1980 the university was offered a long-term lease for its own campus on a plum site: a 6.6-acre plot near Hebrew University with a panoramic view of the ancient walled city. B.Y.U.'s plan, calling for a $15 million seven-story building, including a 500-seat concert hall, was approved by Israeli authorities in 1984. Now half finished, the structure is due to be completed by the spring...
...occasional wrinkle, an odd hitch in these tidy instructions pops up in the form of a fierce local sirocco that hurls itself at cyclonic force across the plains of eastern Colorado. It moves as a solid wall of dust, opaque and hard on the nerves of any ill-informed motorist it happens to catch. All a fool can do in these circumstances is listen to the finish of the car being grit-blasted away. Even with the windows closed, the dirt piles up on the dashboard and gathers in the folds of clothes and collects on the tongue. Coming...
...Moeller farm on Mormon Island, Neb., lies right in the path of the central flyway, a great avian migratory route that runs from central Mexico to eastern Siberia. Through it each spring pass 560,000 sandhill cranes, 9 million ducks and geese, more than 500 bald eagles, 104 piping plovers, 110 least terns and 96 of the world's remaining population of 171 whooping cranes. Few bird watchers are lucky enough to spot the latter along their 2,500-mile flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas to Canada's Northwest Territories. They are secretive, and they travel in small...
...ground and in the air last week, fighting in the 6½-year-old revolt of Afghan rebels against Soviet invasion forces reached its fiercest level. In an all-out drive to cut the guerrillas' main supply line from Pakistan, Soviet troops overran a key stronghold in Jawar in eastern Afghanistan. The mile-long underground complex was a major training and storage site for the anti-Communist mujahedin forces. Meanwhile, waves of war-planes blasted insurgent positions along the Afghan-Pakistani border as some 10,000 Soviet and Afghan troops advanced on the ground. "This is the worst fighting...
...Eastern Airlines' labor leaders were none too pleased three months ago when their company agreed to merge with Texas Air. Reason: Texas Air Chairman Frank Lorenzo has earned a reputation as a fierce foe of unions. Now it appears that Eastern's workers may be maneuvering to foil the deal. Union representatives have been meeting with Jay Pritzker, a Chicago financier who controls Braniff Airlines and the Hyatt hotel chain. Pritzker is said to be considering a bid for Eastern in return for wage concessions from the workers. Texas Air controls 51% of Eastern stock, but Pritzker could conceivably make...