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Stylistically, however, Predock has been militantly Southwestern. La Luz, his clustered adobe housing development built 21 years ago in Albuquerque, was a precocious masterpiece that reinvigorated overused Indian forms. The 1985 Robinson-Burney House not far away could be a prototype for Southwestern family dwellings: a "ranch house" worthy of the name...
...concrete-and-glass headquarters, the scene was stormy. Under the harsh glare of a battery of television lights, executives of the 60- year-old airline last week announced the layoff of more than 3,500 employees, or 9% of the work force, sparing only pilots and flight attendants. Said Luz Gomez, 26, a laid-off clerical worker: "I don't know how they are going to do without...
...case before the court involved Luz Marina Cardoza-Fonseca, 38, a Nicaraguan who now lives in Nevada. Cardoza-Fonseca unsuccessfully claimed before theINS that if forced to return, she would face torture because her brother is a former Sandinista who was imprisoned and tortured by his onetime comrades before he escaped to the U.S. Justice Stevens upheld a lower-court ruling that the INS must reconsider her case using the more lenient standard. In a dissent joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Byron White, Lewis Powell maintained it was reasonable for the INS to find no practical distinction between...
Farther to the south, the San Diego River, normally just a trickle, flooded the city's biggest hotel and shopping district. Six reservoirs swelled to their highest levels since 1941. Medical supplies and food had to be airlifted to 200 families marooned in nearby De Luz when the Margarita River overflowed its banks. In Phoenix, Ariz., the Salt River, which is normally dry at this time of year, turned into a torrent, cutting off all but two of 13 crossings into the city from the suburbs...
...Force jet at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, and flew to the Canal Zone, ending his 54-day stay in the U.S. Just where the Shah would live was uncertain. U.S. officials mentioned the lush resort island of Contadora off Panama's Pacific coast. But Luz Maria Quijano de Murray, Panamanian consul general in Philadelphia, said the Shah will be given asylum for three months on Coi-bita Island, also off the Pacific coast. The arrangement, she added, "could become permanent...