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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beirut seemed to erupt in gunfire as the first elements of the P.L.O. contingent left the Fakhani district, site of the organization's headquarters, aboard Lebanese army trucks. For nearly three hours, hundreds of Palestinian soldiers throughout the city fired rifles, machine guns, rockets and antiaircraft guns into the air in a grand salute to their departing comrades. Watching the spectacle were 350 French peace-keeping troops who had arrived shortly after dawn that morning to assist in the evacuation...
Bald Mountain Lookout. Located above the timberline atop a 6,000-ft. peak in eastern Oregon, this five-acre site was once an observation point for rangers trying to spot forest fires. It is too small to interest developers, but its remoteness and breathtaking views will charm fugitives from city life. Land in the area is going for $300 to $500 per acre...
...facing the ocean, a former noncommissioned officers' club and a recreation hall with a lounge, bowling alley and small indoor track. A local group known as Howard Mountain Associates wants to turn the facility into a housing development for senior citizens. Washington County commissioners are interested in using the site for a prison. Whoever buys it will have to come up with a good deal of cash, since the property is valuable, especially by the standards of this economically depressed county. Undeveloped land in the area is currently bringing $300 to $500 per acre...
Last May, Denes with the help of about 60 paid and volunteer assistants, and financed by a $10,000 grant from the Public Art Fund, a private foundation that aids civic art projects, began hauling rocks off the site, which is a landfill intended for a development of offices and apartments called Battery Park City. They laid down 700 cu. yds. of topsoil in a 2-in. layer and hand dug 285 furrows. Then they sowed 6 bu. of hard, red spring wheat donated by the North Dakota Wheat Commission. While office workers watched skeptically from nearby towers or paid...
...field, wrapped chains around a grove of trees, and near by buried a time capsule containing 40 existential questions. Samples: "Which do you think will prove ultimately more important to mankind-science or love?" "Do you believe mankind will become extinct one day?" In similar performances at a private site in 1968 and at Artpark in 1977, she buried samples of her haiku and other writings...