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...full two weeks. Driving vans, they transported their equipment, including six torches, 27 oxyacetylene bottles and several heavy hydraulic jacks, to Nice's Palais des Expositions, roughly a mile from the Place Massena, the town center. There they dismantled crash barriers that blocked access to an underground roadway built for sewermen alongside the River Paillon, which runs below street level through the middle of town. Following the road to a point near the Place Massena, they connected with a sewerage line that led about 440 yds. to a point 30 ft. from the bank's strong room. Then...
Traffic will be banned from a stretch of Memorial Drive extending from Western Avenue to the Eliot Bridge tomorrow between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., as announced last month, converting the roadway and adjacent bank of the Charles into a pedestrian mall...
...Bullet pock marks on the outside and inside of houses along Sakhnin's main street, broken windows, battered cars and splotches of dried blood on the roadway grimly testify to the shootings of the previous day. But there was no way to verify the villagers' version of what triggered the tragedy. The government has stuck to its story that the villagers were attacked only after they had stoned the soldiers and blocked roadways with flaming tires. Probably the truth lies somewhere in between...
...Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) will ban all vehicular traffic from a 1.6-mile stretch of Memorial Drive on four consecutive Sundays starting April 18, converting the roadway and adjacent bank of the Charles River into an experimental "people's park...
...week's end the Cambodian government was reported ready to cut down the trees lining Phnom-Penh's Democracy Boulevard so that the wide roadway can be turned into an emergency landing strip for DC-3s in case the airport is closed down by Khmer Rouge rocket attacks. Such a desperate ploy might extend the war for a few days, or even a week or two, but not for long. This week the city braced itself for the fifth anniversary of the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk, a date the insurgents have previously celebrated with heavy attacks...