Word: roof
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...anti-Communist rioters' anger was sparked in part by the government's failure to remove the hated Communist red star from the roof of the party building, but the flames were stoked by the government's inability to cope with a depressed economy and the prospects of winter shortages. Admitted Socialist leader Alexander Lilov: "Radical reforms should have absolute priority before all other questions...
...textile mill. "The stonework is marvelous," she says. "It was obviously ! meant to be a real showpiece." Built in 1849 in Cannelton, Ind., alongside the Ohio River, the brooding, fortress-like structure with twin turrets and heavily bracketed cornice was abandoned in the 1950s. Now the roof is a wreck, and starlings nest inside...
Pitts outlines the next steps to her guides from Historic Cannelton, Inc. "It needs a roof, and you'll have to repair and remove those later excretions," she says, referring to an unsightly brick addition. "You have to shake the tree a bit. You just have to get as tenacious as the devil and generate publicity that this isn't a dead whale, that it's a useful community building...
...cities in a dozen sites around the country. The canvas tents are often furnished with little more than mattresses and sleeping bags, and toilet facilities are haphazard. The squatters' resentment is increasing along with their number. Last week near Tel Aviv, 70 of the homeless barricaded themselves on a roof, hurled gasoline bombs at the street and threatened mass suicide until Minister of Housing Ariel Sharon promised to listen to their demands and pay a visit to their tent city...
Washington's refusal to deal with Hanoi since 1975, when the last helicopter lifted off the roof of the Saigon embassy, was designed to isolate the country when it was bent on expanding its sway over its Southeast Asian neighbors. But when Vietnam withdrew the bulk of its army of occupation from Cambodia last September, it removed the last major barrier to recognition. As Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who was once national coordinator of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, noted last week, "A month after Tiananmen Square, we talked to the leaders of China; we talked to Pinochet...