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...Waikiki Beach in Hawaii, the problem was not trees but dense commercial high-rise developments surrounding the land, which made it difficult for his pilot to maneuver. David Falconer was luckier. He expected visibility problems when he rented a plane to shoot pictures of Oregon's Bald Mountain Lookout. But shortly before he arrived, light broke through the soup-thick clouds just long enough...
...Zimbabwe's combat force. The government has detained six whites and five blacks who were linked to Nkomo for questioning about the incident. Last March, two former officers in Nkomo's Zipra forces-KGB-trained Dumiso Dubengwa, who served as intelligence chief, and ex-Deputy Commander Lookout Masuku-were arrested after Mugabe's men discovered large caches of arms and ammunition on property owned by Nkomo's ZAPU. About 1,200 onetime Zipra soldiers have deserted the nation's army, undermining the plan to unite the formerly warring factions into a single national force...
...beginning of his career, says Dugger, Johnson was a fawning sycophant on the lookout for a useful mentor. He used his role as editor of the campus paper at Southwest Texas State Teachers College to flatter the school's president, who had made Johnson his assistant. Winning a Senate seat in 1948 by 87 votes out of nearly 1 million cast, "Landslide Lyndon" set about cultivating Georgia's powerful Richard Russell. He would invite Russell to dinner and coach his daughters to call the man Uncle Dick. That campaign paid off. When Russell was in line to become...
...city's rent-control program--which benefits the vast majority of city residents, both those who live in rent-controlled apartments and those who enjoy Cambridge's diversity--is under fire. Increasingly, big developers and landlords on the lookout for windfall profits are trying to gut the controls, though pressure on the city's housing market remains tremendous...
...city's rent-control program--which benefits the vast majority of city residents, both those who live in rent-controlled apartments and those who enjoy Cambridge's diversity--is under fire. Increasingly, big developers and landlords on the lookout for windfall profits are trying to gut the controls, though pressure on the city's housing market remains tremendous...