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...audience with Gorbachev to revive the deal? Trump, who does not discourage talk of his presidential ambitions and who buys newspaper ads laying out his plans for world nuclear disarmament, has more on his mind these days than slapping his name on another pile of bricks and mortar, even if the pile of bricks is in Mother Russia. He wants to talk one superpower to another. "I'm not looking to do anything but let him know that these two great countries can and should get along together...
Through her efforts, and through the media attention Hyland has been able to gather, a million-dollar Bicentennial Lighthouse Fund has been put into motion. It is the first "bricks-and-mortar" provision for historic sites to be enacted since President Reagan came into office, and it will all be directed to lighthouses...
Administrators say it is difficult to dip into the endowment to pay brick-and-mortar costs, because donors often earmark their gifts to Harvard for other projects. The Harvard Campaign, a recent fund drive, set a goal of $12 million for the houses and dorms, but raised only...
...crackle of machine-gun fire and the crump of mortar shells reverberated in the narrow alleyways of Beirut's southern suburbs. Figures in camouflage fatigues crouched behind the crumbling concrete-block walls of abandoned apartment buildings, clutching Kalashnikovs and scanning the area ahead for signs of movement before advancing. Red headbands identified the men as members of Hizballah, the disciplined and fanatical Shi'ite militia supported by Iran. After three weeks of combat, Hizballah's militants, led by Iranian Revolutionary Guards, had seized control of virtually the entire area of Beirut's southern suburbs from the Syrian-backed Amal militia...
Malcolm McCormack, executive secretary of the Truman Foundation, which administers the scholarships, said the award was founded because those who had known the president believed he would not have wanted a memorial building. "He was not much on bricks and mortar. They wanted a living program dedicated to Truman's memory," he said...