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After more than a decade of political debate, court battles and environmental disputes, New York officials last week finally gave up on Westway, the $2.3 billion, six-lane extravaganza proposed to replace a decayed section of Manhattan's West Side Highway. The project was to have been built through 169 acres of landfill in the Hudson River, with real estate development and a park on top. It had the support of New York's major politicians, builders and newspapers. But a number of vocal and tenacious critics called the project environmentally unsound and a waste of money. Westway's major...
...lane alley, complete with snack bar, is due to open next month at a cost of $375,000 to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and $75,000 to Duchesne. California Democrat George Miller, chairman of the House Interior Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources, is enraged by the expenditure. "We charge them to build a dam, we get a bowling alley instead," he said last week. The bureau has proposed that Utah residents who will be served by CUP whenever the project is completed pay back about 75% of the federal cost for the bowling alley through water charges...
After the indictment, DeLorean, a former General Motors executive who was once in the auto industry's fast lane, brushed off questions from reporters | outside his Manhattan apartment with a brusque "Read the book. It's all in the book." He was referring to DeLorean (Zondervan; $17.95), his new autobiography. In it, he denies the charges raised in Detroit. Writes DeLorean: "When all the documents and facts are presented, I expect to be fully vindicated...
...Mexico City when the earth began to heave. Up to half a million residents crowded the Metro, bound for work or for classes. A few schools were already open, and the inevitable morning traffic jam was slowing movement on the streets, even on the tree-lined, eight-lane Paseo de la Reforma, the grand boulevard that extends through the center of the city...
...when the final gun sounded 82 minutes after Lane Kenworthy's direct kick had eluded UConn goalie Andy Pantason, the 10th-ranked Huskies (now 6-0-3) had turned a 1-0 deficit into a 5-1 victory...