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Those with the most at stake, however, may be the seven members of the Historical Commission, whose ability to achieve its foremost task--the preservation of land-marks--has been called into question. After placing a two-year moratorium on construction at the historic site, in keeping with the provisions of the landmark ordinance, the commission reconsidered is decision on October 4. But still confused about the legality of the demolition and faced with a State Building Code Appeals Board ruling in favor of the developer, commissioners postponed a decision until a meeting yesterday...
...choosing to order the complete demolition and apply the moratorium, "[developers] would have an incentive to demolish historic landmarks," warns Sullivan...
...applying the moratorium the commission seems to be standing behind Sullivan. One commissioner accused Doyle of "intellectual dishonesty" Although it may not be for another seat, the commission will have to face Mirick in a suit for damages accruing from the construction delay. So far, the delay has cost Doyle and Bell an estimated $70,000 in legal fees and interest payments on a construction loan...
...weapons, a declaration that the U.S. has some new ideas about cutbacks in strategic forces, and an offer to work out a new negotiating format if the Soviets want it. But the President ruled out specific quid pro quos for getting talks started again, such as agreeing to a moratorium on testing antisatellite weapons in exchange for a Soviet return to START. That much of the decision pleased the hardliners. Some other elements did not. Reagan turned aside their advice to spend much of the meeting airing anti-Soviet grievances. Moreover, he specifically declined to make public the Administration...
...arms talks, a move Moscow found unacceptable. Explained a senior Soviet diplomat: "It looked to us as though the Administration was interested in the spectacle of talks but not in doing serious business." The Soviet proposal, however, was hardly equitable: one precondition required the U.S. to agree to a moratorium on the testing of space weapons. This would have precluded the testing of an American satellite killer scheduled for the end of this year...