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...Mayor Michael A. Sullivan, would look at the possibility of building covered bus stops at various places in Harvard Square—outside Holyoke and Johnston Gates, on Quincy Street near Lamont Library, on J.F.K. Street near the Kennedy School of Government, in the plaza in front of the Charles Hotel, and on Cambridge Common...
Inside Bogotá's imposing Palace of Justice last Wednesday morning, more than 500 people were going about their business as usual. Suddenly, the quiet in the capital's Bolívar Plaza was shattered by bursts of gunfire as some two dozen guerrillas streamed into the building from an underground garage. Armed with pistols and machine guns, the invaders quickly took over the five-story building, shooting their way to the fourth floor judicial offices, where they took more than a dozen Supreme Court judges hostage. M-19, Colombia's best-known terror group, had struck again...
From the outset, the government of President Belisario Betancur Cuartas refused to negotiate. Within minutes of the takeover, Bolívar Plaza was teeming with soldiers and police. Armored cars arrived with sirens blaring. The Colombian army and paramilitary police units responded with a fury that the newspaper El Tiempo called "the most spectacular counter-guerrilla operation in contemporary times." Said one journalist who was at the scene: "It was total...
...Baker, who replaced Regan as Treasury Secretary in January, is not as devoted to freely floating exchange rates as his predecessor. The Administration took a step away from that system in September, when officials met with representatives of Britain, France, Japan and West Germany at New York City's Plaza Hotel. The group agreed that the dollar was too powerful and tacitly decided to depress its value by selling dollars and buying other currencies. Robert Hormats, former Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, believes that without saying so, the Treasury Department is eyeing a target zone for the dollar...
Tribe, who traveled to New York Wednesday night to provide legal counsel to the owners of the Plaza Hotel, could not be reached for comment yesterday, according to his assistant...