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...country as Prime Minister with the support of his ethnic group, the Shona, who make up about 80% of the population. Nkomo headed the main opposition party, composed of the Ndebele people. He was accused by the government of being behind Ndebele freedom fighters in the area of southwestern Zimbabwe known as Matabeleland. Since 1982 the rebels and the Shonas have waged a war that has claimed thousands of lives...
...Pages has changed considerably since the 1984 breakup of AT&T. Consumers now choose from a virtual home library of competing Yellow Pages, including special editions for children, the elderly, doctors and boaters, and even multilingual versions in Spanish, Chinese and other languages. At the same time, firms like Southwestern Bell are going nationwide to challenge other phone companies for consumers. Says C. Richard Stigelman, a Swarthmore, Pa., telecommunications consultant: "Under divestiture, the directory business has started to become an industry...
...largest and most aggressive directory publishers is St. Louis- based Southwestern Bell. The company puts out 1,100 Yellow Pages editions in 48 states and has launched major invasions of the Manhattan, Baltimore, Washington and Chicago markets. In Manhattan, Southwestern Bell has taken on NYNEX, the giant holding company for the New York and New England telephone companies. Since last year, more than 1 million copies of Southwestern's New York Yellow Pages have been distributed. The 816-page book is a more compact alternative to the listings contained in two separate NYNEX Yellow Pages directories -- the consumer version...
...Southwestern Harvard Square is in for a new skyline...
Three of the projects in the southwestern sector of the Square area make up a cooperative effort among three private developers to extend the shopping district and provide more office space. But the largest step in this renovation of the area is Harvard's decision to lease the Harvard Motor House to the same developers who built the Charles Hotel...