Word: interior
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...Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble announced Kohl's change in position during a meeting of the "German Unity" committee of government ministers, according to participants who spoke later on condition of anonymity...
Pitts, 65, is quite a tree shaker herself. Scholar, writer and bureaucratic infighter, she has done as much as anyone else to transform the field of historic preservation from a grass-roots trend to a mainstream movement. During her 16-year tenure with the Department of the Interior, she has helped designate more than 200 structures and districts as National Historic Landmarks. Among her assorted trophies are Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house in Bear Run, Pa., and the elephant-shaped hotel in Margate City, N.J. While there are 55,000 sites, properties and districts on the National Register...
Things have gone so far that getting your home featured in Architectural Digest, an honor to die for in the '80s, is considered tacky. After all, most of the homes are not so much designed as crammed with very expensive clutter. Interior decorators are outre, and making slipcovers and clothes for the children seems to be gaining favor. Fabri-Centers of America, a chain of 620 fabric stores in 35 states, reports that earnings have grown 72% in the past year, from $5.1 million to $8.8 million, while revenues are up 15%, to $333 million. Chairman Alan Rosskamm attributes...
...feared and reviled as the former Minister of the Interior and Defense under the exiled dictator Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier and the onetime head of the dreaded Tontons Macoutes, but when Roger Lafontant arrived in Port-au-Prince from exile in Santo Domingo last week, he was given a VIP reception despite orders from the government not to admit him. Lafontant's unwelcome return came only a few days after the arrival of another exiled Duvalier associate, Major General Williams Regala...
Libyan terrorists were not the only ones welcome. East German Interior Minister Peter-Michael Diestel charged last week that the infamous "Carlos," who was responsible for the 1975 attack on the OPEC ministers in Vienna, was a frequent visitor. Diestel believes he has enough evidence to bring a case soon against former East German leader Erich Honecker for aiding the terrorists...