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...Sandinista paper. More than 50,000 gathered for the rally in the sweltering afternoon sun, a somewhat smaller crowd than had been forecast by the government. Carrying rifles, sticks, shovels and hand-carved replicas of guns, they marched past a theater showing the 1980 American film Brubaker to the Plaza de la Revoluci?...
...appreciate the motivations of the 4000 people who gathered for the Molibization for Animals demonstration last Sunday at the Park Plaza hotel in Boston. Though many demanded the abolition of the type of research I have been doing. I can see how empathy for the pain suffered by other species would lead people to make such demands. Still, many of their demands were extreme and I would not want to see them carried...
Anxiety is growing in the U.S. as well. A combined U.S. and Latin-American panel headed by Sol Linowitz, former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, and Galo Plaza, former President of Ecuador, last week advocated a new approach for negotiations among the U.S., Nicaragua, other Central American governments and revolutionary movements, and even Cuba and the Soviet Union. The aim would be to work out "understandings" like those between Washington and Moscow that ended the Cuban missile crisis by trading a Kremlin agreement not to put Soviet nuclear weapons into Cuba for a U.S. pledge...
...through zoning that requires retailing at street level in commercial buildings. As Whyte's photos make clear, the worst offenders are convention centers, like the one in the Seattle Sheraton Hotel, and the new megastructure office, hotel and shopping centers, such as the Bonaventure Hotel and Atlantic Richfield Plaza in Los Angeles, the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco and Omni International in Atlanta. Architecturally, these structures often have an awesome and arrogant beauty. Socially, they set themselves deliberately and offensively apart from the city around them...
...rally followed a day during which the students lobbied individual representatives in the Legislative Office Building in the Empire State Plaza, the administrative core of the New York State government...