Word: interior
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Some volunteers remained behind to move the historic Star of the Sea Roman Catholic church -- a structure noted for its interior wall paintings -- out of the path of destruction. By the time the lava flow sputters off into the ocean, Kalapana will be no more. Says Harry Kim, Hawaii County's civil-defense chief: "This community is finished. This land won't be productive for 150 years...
...similarly stripped-down collection of elemental components. Yet, as if to confound those who would pigeonhole him as a weltschmerzy ascetic, Rossi took the opposite tack for a family crypt completed in 1987. The little chapel has a sweet brick exterior, with oddly incomplete cornice and a carved-wood interior of pediments, columns and mock windows...
...break in the hostage deadlock in Lebanon would be a sign that President Rafsanjani has been winning the power struggle in Tehran. He still faces opposition from militants led by former Interior Minister Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, who remains fiercely opposed to the release of the hostages because it might lead to improved relations with the U.S. and the return of Western influence in Iran. In the early 1980s, Mohtashemi helped organize the Lebanese Hizballah. After Rafsanjani became President following the death of Ayatullah Khomeini last year, he began seeking to lure Hizballah leaders away from their longtime allegiance to Mohtashemi...
...logging and settlement plans have reduced that number to fewer than 500 Penan tribesmen, who still cling to nomadic ways. Even these remaining nomadic clans are threatened by a powerful alliance of Japanese trading companies, merchants and local politicians, who continue to push logging operations ever deeper into the interior...
...route the trekkers were outnumbered by hostile Zulu warriors, but spears were no match for cannons. Any hope for reconciliation vanished when diamonds and gold were found in the interior. The discovery, says Sparks, produced "the watershed event in South African history. Overnight it turned a pastoral country into an industrial one, sucking country folk into the city and changing their lives." By-products of the mines included pass laws; "native" compounds that separated workers from their families; escalating categories of black, colored and European; ruthless cartels; and the world's first concentration camps, built by Britain during the Boer...