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...referendum three weeks ago. Had Ireland also opposed the Maastricht pact, it almost surely would have been dead, and the Community's greater integration, including the creation of a single European currency and common foreign and defense policies, would have suffered a setback that would have taken years to rebuild...
Rowe says urban designers can play an important role in the effort to rebuild the nation's decaying cities...
...President answered his own question last week, straddling various approaches toward urban policy and the environment. Hewing to the pattern he has followed for the past three years, he staged evocative photos and spoke soothing words about the need to "rebuild the hearts of our nation's cities," even while declining to press Congress aggressively for a conservative antipoverty program. For the first time this year, Bush summoned leaders of both parties to discuss domestic policy, asking that they "emphasize the things that we can agree on." That didn't leave them much to discuss beyond disaster relief...
...local self-help groups struggled to clear the rubble in South Central and Peter Ueberroth, chairman of a newly formed Rebuild Los Angeles Committee, sought to persuade Japanese as well as U.S. companies to re-enter the sadly charred inner city, units of the 10,000 U.S. troops that had quelled the riots gradually withdrew. Army and Marine Corps regulars pulled out, on the proviso that the Marines would maintain a "rapid reaction" force capable of returning to the streets on three hours' notice. Some National Guard units also started to withdraw, leaving 6,000 Guardsmen still on patrol...
SOME MERCHANTS IN BURNED-OUT LOS ANGELES NEIGHBORhoods may not be able to rebuild, even if they have the resources. They need permits. Many Angelenos in the ravaged areas are expected to oppose permits for so-called nuisance businesses: liquor stores, pawn shops, auto-repair shops and cheap motels. Says one gang member: "We were doing some renovation to the neighborhood. There are too many liquor stores in our community...