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Harvard is willing to pay great sums to get its bridge. According to Peter L. Walsh, public relations director for the Museum, bridge construction alone would cost about $1 million. The Museum also proposes to spend an additional $300,000 creating a small plaza and avenue of trees to improve the streetscape surrounding the bridge, and would pay the City of Cambridge an annual fee of approximately $16,000 in "air rights," for the right to build over Broadway...
...cloud appeared the day before the inauguration ceremony. About 1,000 demonstrators chanting "Fraud! Fraud!" staged a late-night protest in Panama City's Cathedral Plaza. The demonstrators were backers of Ardito Barletta's venerable populist rival in last May's presidential election, Arnulfo Arias Madrid, 83. Arias lost the election by a mere 1,713 of the 640,000 votes cast, prompting widespread accusations of fraud. Said Winston Robles, editor of the opposition daily La Prensa: "The main problem for Nicky is one of legitimacy...
Until the television program Dallas debuted in 1978, Dealey Plaza, the assassination site, was the most popular tourist attraction in town. Now the most popular place to see is Southfork, the ranch where Dallas is set. Fred Meyer, chairman of the Dallas County Republican Party, finds an offensive image here. "When the No. 1 tourist attraction is a fictional location of a fictional TV show," Meyer says, "that's a powerful argument that there is a lack of knowledge about Dallas" Dallas Mayor A. Starke Taylor Jr. wants to send forth a truer picture too. "There are places...
...another diversion from more pressing matters, the Senate prepared to debate a meddlesome measure introduced by New York Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato that would rename the site of the Soviet embassy in Washington Andrei Sakharov Plaza. While attempts to keep pressure on the Soviets to free the ailing dissident from confinement are laudable, even the State Department saw this one as a dubious and ill-conceived political ploy. State Department Spokesman Joseph Reap said the measure, which seems to have broad congressional support, might violate international agreements on protecting the dignity of foreign missions, lead to Soviet retaliation...
...shot to death last August as he returned to Manila after three years in exile. The protesters were determined to accompany anti-Marcos assemblymen into the chamber, but Aquino and his followers were repulsed by some 2,000 military police. The marchers regrouped in Manila's Bonifacio Plaza, where a five-hour confrontation with security forces ended in clouds of tear gas with dozens injured...