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...apparently because of a Soviet request for a delay until a formal surrender in Berlin could be arranged. Several hundred thousand people milled around for five hours in New York's Times Square, sober, uncertain whether to celebrate or not. Ticker tape fluttered through the air, then stopped. Finally Mayor Fiorello La Guardia bellowed through a loudspeaker, "Go home ... or return to your jobs...
...over power to another elected government. Although the official results will not be announced for a month, Garcia, leader of the center-left Popular American Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), unofficially captured 48.7% of the vote, a better than 2-to-l lead over his only significant rival, Lima's Marxist Mayor Alfonso Barrantes Lingán, who headed the ticket of the United Left, an agglomeration of eight leftist and Communist parties. Voters overwhelmingly rejected the Popular Action Party of outgoing President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, whose policies have failed to alleviate Peru's worsening economic crisis. The party's candidate, Javier Alva...
Townspeople elsewhere merely carp about glass boxes and pine for the architectural past. San Franciscans have taken action. Earlier this month the board of supervisors passed an elaborate set of rules governing development in the 470-acre urban heart. The new code, sponsored by Mayor Dianne Feinstein, is more prescriptive and restrictive than any other ever adopted by an American city. At once radical and conservative, the Downtown Plan will permit only a couple of new towers to be built in the dense center of downtown. It will limit large-scale building citywide to an annual aggregate...
Adriano Jellici, mayor of the neighboring town of Tesero, was driving up the valley with his daughter. They were saved because the road at that point swung high up the hillside. "I have seen the end of the world," Jellici exclaimed. Other travelers were not so fortunate. Bank Employee Mario Deflorian spoke of his cousin Lucio Deflorian, a carpenter: "He was coming down the road in a truck with his two sons, Umberto, 18, and Clemente, 24. Right away he guessed what was happening. He yelled, 'Get out! Get out!' The two boys escaped by running into the forest...
...largest black township (pop. an estimated 1.2 million) began on Wednesday. Hundreds of students stormed aboard six municipal buses and demanded to be taken to a magistrates court where 105 black youths were being charged with holding an illegal demonstration at the home of Edward Kunene, Soweto's mayor. The students sang and chanted outside the courthouse until mounted police cleared the area with tear gas and rubber bullets. About 500 of the protesters were arrested but then released after the bus company declined to press hijacking charges. The students soon joined thousands of other Sowetans in an orgy...