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...with an oversize poster of Trump's book, Gorbachev is scheduled to get a tour of Trump's 26th-floor office: its wall of magazine covers, its panoramic view of Central Park, and its reflection of Trump himself in the gold mirror tile ceiling. Then, if time and security permit, it's on to the private quarters on the top three floors of the building: a sprawling 7,000-sq.-ft. living area with a 12-ft. waterfall and hand-painted ceiling he compares unblushingly to the Sistine Chapel's, a dining room with floor-to-ceiling windows on three...
HSDF is also appealing the special permit granted by the Cambridge Planning Board to Cherry, Webb and Touraine (CWT), the firm developing a project at 12 Mifflin Place. The specialpermit allows the new building to reach 76 feet inheight, but HSDF hopes to limit it to 60 feet...
...Injections of the drugs papaverine and phentolamine into the penis can counteract stiffening of the corpora cavernosa and thus permit engorgement with blood. Dosage is carefully balanced to produce an erection that lasts about two hours, and patients learn how to inject themselves. Urologists recommend that drug use be limited to ten times a month to avoid scarring. Occasionally a patient will suffer a prolonged erection; impotence clinics provide 24-hour emergency service to administer an antidote. Cost of the therapy: $1,200 to $2,400 a year. Robert Batts, 40, a former policeman in Hull, Mass., who became impotent...
...host nation for the U.N., the U.S. is generally obliged to permit anyone to bring his case to the world organization, though it reserves the right to exclude security threats. In 1974 Arafat appeared before the General Assembly, an empty pistol holster conspicuous on his hip. At first, Shultz hid behind the flimsy excuse that Arafat had not formally asked for a visa. Then Arafat called the American bluff by making the request through the U.S. consulate in Tunis. The State Department said it would "severely scrutinize" his application. The possibility that the Americans might refuse the visa had angered...
...this delicate juncture, calmer minds on both sides agree that the last thing anyone wants is a violent ethnic clash. Says editor Leito: "We simply cannot permit a split into rival groups as in Ulster or Lebanon." Nonetheless, the tension in Estonia is accompanied by exhilaration over the fact that vital issues are finally being aired. Many Estonians take the optimistic view that as long as there is no upheaval in the streets, the Kremlin will not call the republic to account. Says a Tallinn intellectual: "We are a legal-minded people and are prepared to examine everything in terms...