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...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...
Like most people in Charlesville, a tiny (pop. 77) fishing community in southwestern Nova Scotia, Janice Hines is usually up shortly after sunrise. One morning last week, however, she rose at 3, awakened prematurely by her dog's barking. As she looked out the window, she saw an amazing sight. There, on the road in front of her house, were dozens of men, many of them bearded and wearing turbans. As she watched in astonishment, they began chanting, "Hello, hello. Refugees!" Recalls Hines: "They were well dressed. They had suitcases, attache cases and plastic tote bags. They looked almost like...
...AIDS-stricken American tourist, stranded in southwestern China for a month, was evacuated last week by a U.S. Air Force plane. The flight ended an impasse caused by the refusal of commercial airlines to take the patient home. Brent Anderson, 38, was flown from the city of Kunming to Clark Air Base in the Philippines aboard a specially equipped Air Force C-9 Nightingale and then on to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton...
Much of the turmoil, especially among the students, was a prelude to the anniversary this week of a 1980 uprising in Kwangju. Seven years ago, after martial law was suddenly imposed throughout South Korea, rioters in the southwestern city of 700,000 took to the streets, overran ill-prepared police and seized virtually all public buildings. In response, the government mobilized a division of front-line army troops and ordered a military attack against the rebelling civilians. The result was a bloodbath that left nearly 200 people dead. Ever since, the Kwangju massacre has been associated with a group...