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...continues to fight for a semblance of equality sees through the initiative and wants to nix it. More important, the ultra-conservative whites--Botha, believe it or not, has somehow become a "moderate"--are afraid the constitution will give too much power to the Indians and coloreds and will pave the way for eventual Black representation...
...That we voted a good roads program in this State to pave the highways and build a thousand miles graveled farmers' roads every year, and we are building them of the highest type...
Gaddafi, in turn, reportedly hinted to the French that he was willing to talk peace. But on what terms? Previously he has urged France to help overthrowHabré and pave the way for a new "government of national reconciliation," presumably meaning one that would be more mindful of Libyan wishes. One possible solution might be international recognition of Libyan control over the Aozou Strip, in return for Libya's withdrawal from the rest of Chad. Another would be the effective partition of Chad into a Libyan-dominated north and aHabré-controlled south. But neither of those formulas would...
...took in $22 million in fines and $4 million in meter revenue, quadrupling the take before 1981. The ticket collection rate soared to 70%. "If we hadn't taken these steps," says Vitagliano, "we could have a gridlock so bad that the only solution would have been to pave over the cars and start again...
Underlying these specifics, of course, is the tension natural whenever a mobile, fluid, upperclass, academic population mixes with implanted blue collar neighbors. Vellucci, who once called on the city to pave over Harvard Yard and make it into a parking lot, summed up the mentality best in a piece he wrote for The Crimson last spring: "Go into Macarelli's Bar in East Cambridge and ask the truck drivers and meat packers that drink there what they think of Harvard. They'll tell you that it gobbles up all the property in Cambridge and is populated with strange and eccentric...