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With far less controversy than on the MX, the House Ways and Means Committee rushed through a five-year $27.5 billion program to rebuild the nation's transportation facilities. Although eventual approval seems likely, disputes are arising over how the funds should be distributed, whether the work can begin soon enough to be effective and whether the 5?-per-gal. gasoline tax increase that would finance it is equitable to lower-income citizens. The House bill, backed by the President and leaders of both parties, also would increase taxes on tires and fees paid by truckers, a proposal that...
Demoralized, the P.L.O. tries to rebuild as a political force...
...earth with a pick. She is trying to build a house. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has just given her a small plot of land, $500 in Lebanese currency, a canvas tent and ten bags of cement. She will need more than that to rebuild her family's life. Six months ago, the Ein el Hilweh refugee camp in which she lived was the home of nearly 25,000 people, a mixture of comfortable houses and rickety slums near Sidon on Lebanon's southern coast. The fierce battle fought there during the Israeli invasion reduced...
...addition, Wolff pointed out that a majority of the department's 10 senior faculty members reach the retirement age within five years. "We really have to rebuild our faculty now," Wolff said...
...siege has also created a chance to rebuild the old city center, which was reduced to rubble during the 1975-76 civil war. By cleaning up this section, Hariri hopes to bring life back to a no man's land that most people in Beirut did not dare visit for seven years. According to the governor of Beirut, Mitri Nammar, work on restoring the heart of the city will begin as soon as officials are satisfied that all land mines have been removed from the area. The estimated cost: as high as $3 billion. "The destruction has opened...