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...board of supervisors passed an elaborate set of rules governing development in the 470-acre urban heart. The new code, sponsored by Mayor Dianne Feinstein, is more prescriptive and restrictive than any other ever adopted by an American city. At once radical and conservative, the Downtown Plan will permit only a couple of new towers to be built in the dense center of downtown. It will limit large-scale building citywide to an annual aggregate of 950,000 sq. ft., the equivalent of two or three medium-size office towers a year, and push the locus of that new development...
...Ethiopia, the Marxist regime of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam has at last begun allocating more trucks to carry food to remote regions of the country. Mengistu has also agreed to permit relief groups to set up several food centers in the northern provinces of Tigre and Eritrea, where he had blocked aid shipments to areas controlled by rebels...
...declared apartheid immoral. In 1977 the government "banned" both the institute and Naudé, condemning him to seven years of virtual house arrest. Yet Naudé, 70, shows no signs of yielding. Since he assumed his SACC post last February, he has urged the government to negotiate with the A.N.C., to permit exiled black nationalists to return, and to release Nelson Mandela, a long-imprisoned leader of the A.N.C...
...successor to his much feared father, Dictator Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. Last week Baby Doc was back with a referendum intended to satisfy the U.S. that Haiti is moving toward democracy. Mindful of possible restrictions on $54 million in U.S. aid, Duvalier instituted a constitutional change to permit the existence of political parties, but only if the parties submitted to the government the names and addresses of at least 18,000 supporters. The referendum also asked voters to reaffirm the position of President-for-Life and give Baby Doc the right to name his successor...
McLoughlin said that protest organizers never filed a permit request with College administrators—an assertion which Gould-Wartofsky confirmed...