Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard plans to tear down the hotel and construct an office building on the site, but the University cannot do so until the city gives up its right to the parking lot land underneath. The City Council--especially Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55--wants to know exactly what that right is worth...
...other hand, Councillor William H. Walsh argued that the property right was not worth anything to anyone besides the city, since a municipal parking garage is the only purpose Cambridge has a right to use the land...
...Council also voted last night to have the City Solicitor look into the legal status of the land...
...with Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano, Botha gave assurances that Pretoria would no longer aid rebels of the Mozambique National Resistance, also known as Renamo. The right-wing guerrillas have been trying for 13 years to topple the Marxist government, cutting rail lines, sacking villages and driving farmers off their land. The bitter civil war has destroyed much of the country's food supply and devastated its economy...
...Moche civilization. A resourceful people of artisans, warriors and farmers who had no written language, the Moche dominated Peru's northern coast from A.D. 250 to 750, some 700 years before the Incas. Using an ingenious system of irrigation canals and channels, they flourished in the arid strip of land between the Andes and the Pacific, at one point reaching a population of more than 50,000, but seem to have vanished abruptly...