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...seemed like a good, healthy recreation," said Wolf who received several requests for a skateboard ramp. She said that such a facility would be much safer than the MBTA Harvard Square subway plaza which was used as a skateboard ramp before barriers were erected to discourage local youths...
Much of the dollar's dive can be traced to a meeting held last September at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel by finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Five, consisting of Britain, West Germany, France, Japan and the U.S. Deciding that the dollar was overpriced, the officials agreed that their countries would sell dollars on foreign-exchange markets in a coordinated effort to bring down their value. The plan worked, but it may have proved too successful...
Massachusetts Democrats packed the adjoining Imperial and Plaza ballrooms at Boston's Park Plaza Hotel, feasting on steak dinners and batting red, white, and blue balloons across the hall. Tickets for the gala event ranged from...
...capital building, taking a break from a debate over contested votes in his region, when a white vehicle pulled into the driveway. Without warning, a man in a black knit ski mask leaped out and started shooting. Javier jumped up and ran. Zigzagging across the building's broad concrete plaza, he tried to escape the relentless barrage of bullets. At least one hit its mark. Javier stumbled and fell into a small fishpond...
Sensitive to the potential damage the murder could cause, particularly during a period when the country is undergoing intense international scrutiny, the Marcos administration moved to find the guilty. The day after the killing, a constabulary officer identified by witnesses as the man who pursued Javier across the plaza was arrested. The government also promised a "swift and definitive" resolution of the 1984 incident. Welcome as those actions were, they brought little comfort to the grieving family and friends of Evelio Javier, or to the thousands of Filipinos who wonder how democracy can survive amid gangland violence...