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...design convention centers that function efficiently yet satisfy the soul. They are workaday Gargantuas that tend to be overblown shows of engineering (the Moscone Center in San Francisco) or imposing fortresses (McCormick Place in Chicago). But New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, designed by James Freed of I.M. Pei & Partners, is exceptional. The vast interior (1.7 million sq. ft.), with its weblike metal skeleton, resembles the glorious train sheds of the late 19th century and, of course, London's Crystal Palace...
...next day Cornea was flown home to Paris aboard a French air force jet. There he was greeted by his wife, by two colleagues who had been freed by their Lebanese kidnapers last June and, finally, by Premier Jacques Chirac. "I cannot believe I am in Paris. I still think it is a dream," Cornea said as he spoke tearfully of his homecoming and of his friend and colleague Jean-Louis Normandin, 34, who remains captive in Lebanon...
...subject, the Kremlin's decision to resume nuclear testing after a self-imposed 16-month moratorium. During the question-and-answer session, Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Petrovsky was asked about reports that Sakharov and his wife Elena Bonner, who was also being detained in Gorky, were about to be freed...
Israel ships two planeloads of U.S. weapons to Iran. Bank documents show that Ghorbanifar writes two checks totaling $5 million to Khashoggi. Hostage Benjamin Weir is released on Sept. 14. The Administration, hoping other hostages will be freed, delays announcing the release for four days...
After a trial before a People's Tribunal composed of a lawyer, truck driver and laborer, Hasenfus was sentenced last month to 30 years for terrorism and other crimes. He was being held in the Tipitapa prison outside Managua when he was freed...