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...what works in South Carolina may not take in Southern California. San ; Diego's $140 million Horton Plaza shopping center, a manic postmodern pastiche, has been successful since it opened in 1985. But across the street, the spruced-up Gaslamp Quarter -- 16 blocks of eclectic Victoriana, until recently occupied mainly by bums, hookers and porn shops -- is still a gentrification wanna...
...free three-hour conference, to be held Saturday morning at the Boston Park Plaza, will include panels and discussions on minority enrollment in MBA programs and career opportunities for minority MBA graduates. It is one of 10 conferences being held nationwide...
...week, posters tacked on Managua telephone poles had declared: NO TO A DIALOGUE WITH THE CONTRAS. By Wednesday, however, the signs had been ripped down, and squawking radios urged Nicaraguans to support peace efforts in Central America. But the 50,000 people who jammed Managua's Revolution Plaza on Thursday night got more than they had bargained for. An exhausted President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, just returned from Moscow, announced that his Sandinista government would make three concessions to demonstrate Nicaragua's "firm will to contribute to regional peace...
...Nicaragua and confiscated opposition posters. Last week Ortega called off the Sandinistas' unilateral cease-fires in four war zones, plainly hoping to appease hard- liners within his own government, who oppose even indirect talks with the rebels. "The contras did not respect that cease-fire," he shouted in Revolution Plaza, shaking his fist. "We are going to go after them tooth and nail...
...residents of San Jose Guayabal, a town northeast of the capital, walk several blocks out of their way to avoid a National Guard checkpoint set up near the town plaza. Nearly everyone knows someone who has disappeared or died at the hands of the military, so why risk trouble? In Chalatenango province, near the border with Honduras, the locals stay away from the rutted dirt paths that wind through the green hills. Unwary travelers have lost feet or legs to land mines planted by rebel troops of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front...