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...Hungary, homeless addicts jam the underground pedestrian passageways of Budapest's Moscow Square, and dealers ply the stairways, offering everything from hashish to morphine-laced pills. In Poland, groups of addicts travel to the outskirts of Warsaw to buy sacks of poppy stalks from farmers, which they use to concoct homemade heroin. And in the Soviet Union, a young man rolls up his sleeve to show television viewers an inner forearm riddled with needle marks...
Three decades later the scene in Budapest could hardly be more changed. The streets once strewn with bodies are jammed with eager shoppers and gaudily garbed Western tourists. Natives and visitors alike stroll the elegant pedestrian mall on Vaci Street, past boutiques stuffed with designer fashions and electronics stores filled with imported stereos and home computers. Relaxing in glossy Vorosmarty Square, they may enjoy coffee and pastry at marble-fronted Gerbaud's cafe. For dinner, they stop at well-appointed restaurants offering rich meals of pork and beef spiced with paprika, groaning dessert carts and good Hungarian wines. By comparison...
...side by snowcapped mountains, on the other by chill Pacific waters, the San Francisco of Canada, as it is often called, now has an additional adornment, a world's fair. Open since the beginning of the month, Expo 86 is already a success by the most firmly pedestrian standard: crowds are standing in line to love...
...have a belief that Cambridge owns that land [above the tunnel] since all that Harvard was interested in was to create a pedestrian walk for students," Vellucci said at last night's City Council meeting...
Moreover, narrow streets and dense pedestrian traffic in the Harvard square area make it one of the highest risk areas in Cambridge for rainy-weather walkers. By taking the lead in combatting umbrella abuse, Harvard could do a great service to the community and expedite efforts to control the problem...