Word: hubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city's future may be the fate of central Beirut. Before the war, this was the commercial and financial hub of the Middle East. During the fighting, a 30-block patchwork of streets in the center was reduced to rubble; 6,000 shops and offices there were destroyed. Abandoning the central area, many Christian and Moslem businessmen are reopening in their own religious enclaves. Victor Kassir, president of Beirut's merchants' association, fears that "if the central district is left as a ruined no man's land, Beirut may de facto become partitioned permanently." One proposal...
...looks more like a wheel," says Powell, "with Carter at the hub, the various departments as spokes and his personal staff around the rim, making contact with the entire circle and keeping people informed." How this will work, given Carter's intention to be a "strong, aggressive" President and his record of making decisions on his own, remains to be seen...
Amsterdam was the natural rendezvous. The city's large Chinese community (1,500 legal residents and more than 7,000 free-floating illegals) had a long-established internal drug trade; easy Common Market border rules made Amsterdam the perfect hub for Europe-wide smuggling. In 1971 gangsters from triads (secret societies) in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore began infiltrating Amsterdam's Chinatown, forcing merchants and community leaders to help shield their operations. Ironically, many of the operators were corrupt drug cops purged from the Hong Kong police force...
...improper, are accustomed to outsize heroes with outsize skills-Ted Williams, Bill Russell, Bobby Orr and, yes, even Jim Plunkett. The quiet, country-bred young man from Ottawa, Kansas (pop. 11,000), resembles none of these demigods; yet he has already begun to exert his own spell on the Hub, its congeries of suburbs and that state of mind known as New England. For beneath his placid exterior, a competitive fire burns. Says Patriot Coach Chuck Fairbanks, who saw it early: "His eyes light up when it's time to play...
...school varsity sports and fired 600 substitute teachers. In Boston, Mayor Kevin White has ordered $15 million slashed from this year's school budget to help ease the pain of a $56 increase in the city's already inflated $196.20-per-$ 1,000 property-tax rate. The Hub's unhappy school department has decided to layoff provisional teachers and to cut back student health services and special education programs...