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Many Algerians heeded fundamentalist warnings to stay home. They stocked up on food and supplies ahead of time, and the streets of Algiers, the country's port-city capital, were eerily silent when the time for voting came. Open-air markets and schools were closed all week, in fact, lest they be targeted by the Islamists. As security forces 200,000 strong took up posts in Algiers and other large cities, motorists were stopped every few hundred yards at police and army check-points. At campaign rallies, supporters were often outnumbered by bodyguards and police brandishing pistols...
Sounding again the major themes of his visit to America, Pope John Paul II told congregants at an open-air mass Friday morning at New York's Aqueduct racetrack that they must show more compassion to the poor and the weak, and return to traditional family values. As a crowd estimated at 75,000 listened,the Pope told them: "Not everyone here is powerful; not everyone here is rich. In fact, America's sometimes extravagant affluence often conceals much hardship and poverty." Moving to family concerns, the Pontiff called for an immediate end to abortion, and more family stability. "Society...
...four-story shopping mall and open-air arcade would be constructed on the site of the razed buildings and would offer 60,000 square feet of retail space, according to W. Easley Hamner, president of Stubbins Associates...
...architect, who helped design Boston's Prudential Center, described the proposed complex as a "public place" which will attract pedestrians year round because of its design. He said it would blend traditional storefronts with an open-air shopping center...
...face that there was something wrong." An old friend from rotc had approached him, he told her, enthusing about "a great new job offer" that he had assumed Koernke knew of too. "Basically what it was," she says, "was that they were to secure an 'open-air camp,' a facility for men, women and children. And [Mark] asked, 'Well, what country is this in?' And the friend replied, 'Well-right here.'" The friend, whom she says Koernke will not identify even to her, went on about the supposed detention camp for 45 minutes, and then, realizing that...