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...most noticeable project dominates the heart of the district, along the southwestern and western walls of the Yard. To the tune of $72 million, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is extending the Red Line of the subway system past Harvard (previously the end of the line) to Alewife. Along the way, the MBTA is re-land-scaping the Central area of the Square, widening sidewalks, setting up modern art displays, and planting trees where no green life existed before. But until the expected completion date of late 1984, denizens must continue to battle heavily congested traffic, limited pedestrian space...
...problems caused by drought. Hoping to mollify the politically volatile inhabitants of urban slums, authorities in Zambia and Zaire have held prices for farm produce artificially low and thus exacerbated rural poverty. Zimbabwe's Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, withheld assistance from those parts of the drought-stricken southwestern province of Matabeleland where rebel factions were most active. Ethiopia continues to spend more than 30% of its budget on arms and less than 5% on importing food...
...Pope traveled the next day to Wroclaw, an industrial city in southwestern Poland that has also been the scene of heated clashes between riot police and Solidarity demonstrators. Security officials were afraid that an unguarded word from John Paul would spark renewed street violence. On the eve of the visit, convoys of blue and gray military and police vehicles patrolled the city. Helicopters hovered ominously above as pilgrims made their way in the early-morning light to the city's race track for an open-air Mass...
...this southwestern Appalachian mining town of 3,500, nine out of ten adult residents are out of work, making it one of the hardest-hit areas in the hardest-hit state in the country. Mining industry layoffs have pushed unemployment in West Virginia to 21%, up eight percentage points in the past year and the highest rate for any state in the nation...
...political justifications that reach the public ear. What is less understandable, however, is why officials would acknowledge former sins only to compound that error by refusing to make amends for their evil ways--as the Supreme Court did last week with its decision involving the water rights of several Southwestern Indian tribes...