Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early signs hardly seemed propitious. As representatives of Lebanon's fractious factions prepared to discuss the freshly announced cease-fire last week, the meeting was suddenly scrubbed because the delegates could not agree on where to gather. After a day of delicate negotiating, a neutral site for the newly formed "security committee" was chosen: a deserted bank building in the hamlet of Al Mahattah, halfway between the Druze town of Shuweifat and the Christian village of Kfar Shima, about three miles south of Beirut. Around 11 a.m. they began pulling up in their Land Rovers. Gathering in the same...
...carrying the 4:30 meal (corned beef, pork, eggs, cheese, bread and tea) for the prison's inmates, many of them convicted terrorists of the Irish Republican Army. Passing through two security gates, the van pulled up in front of No. 7 H-block of the prison, site of dramatic I.R.A. hunger strikes two years ago. There the routine came to a violent stop. Prisoners armed with smuggled guns and homemade knives had already overpowered their guards; now they commandeered the vehicle. Thirty-eight men, who had been waiting for the van for more than an hour, piled inside...
...SITE: Cornell's Scoellkopf Field in Ithaca...
...removed, the 65-ft by 54-ft, sign will be taken to another site in Allston, developers said yesterday. The building below it will be torn down to make room for the hotel...
...Beacon Company of Boston now has the opportunity to buy the land on which the sign stands, said Monique Doyle, a company spokesman. The realty firm would work with the Coca-Cola company to remove the sign and transplant it to the new site...