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Compared with the AWACS deal, what one Israeli wanted and got last week from the U.S. was a snap: 120 alligators. Alligators? Well, their relatives the crocodiles flourish elsewhere in the Middle East, but not in Israel. Guy Ben-Moshe, who is developing a tourist attraction near the southern Golan Heights, offered to pay up to $1,000 per alligator to further his own resettlement scheme. Joel Smith, who runs an alligator farm near Gainesville, Fla., packed 120 of the reptiles, from 1 ft. to 10 ft. long, into burlap-lined wooden crates and sent them...
...organizations for the contract to complete the Faneuil Hall complex by developing 70,000 sq. ft. between the market and the harbor. In Philadelphia, where the four-level Gallery at the Market Street East shopping mall, linking two department stores, was an immediate success?despite doubts that it could flourish in an area that had been a shopping district for poor blacks ?the company is building Gallery II, a similar arcade, and may turn an abandoned commuter train station into a shopping center. Eventually Rouse expects the development to cover some ten city blocks between the city hall...
...Sadat of Egypt arrived in Washington, the first in a series of postvacation Middle Eastern visitors who will include Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd. Sadat was met on the White House lawn with great flourish: herald trumpeters played an original composition called A Salute for a New Beginning, and Reagan called the Egyptian "a man whom history will undoubtedly label one of the 20th century's most courageous peacemakers...
...rigorous, state-supervised education, and to build up the bureaucratic self-esteem that was tarnished during the Nazi years. It accepts only 150 students annually. Almost invariably, graduates of E.N.A. are assured of getting top jobs in the civil service. Indeed, so well did De Gaulle's innovation flourish that technocrats like Giscard, Rocard and onetime French Premier Jacques Chirac were finally able to dominate the country's politics...
...acknowledged leader is Opera Theater of St. Louis. In just six seasons, Richard Gaddes, 39, the company's British-born general director, has made opera flourish in a city where past efforts had mostly been failures...