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...even Ornstein confesses that something odd happens when all of this ambition and money come together in the 257-sq.-mi. Beltway cooker. Being the focus of national news creates an unwarranted sense of self-importance. Economic security diminishes sympathy and understanding. The concerns of Pittsburgh and Bakersfield and a thousand other places grow more and more remote...
...Spain's chagrin, the British have possessed the Mediterranean fortress since 1704, when British Admiral Sir George Rooke seized the 2.25-sq.-mi. peninsula during the War of Spanish Succession. Gibraltar's residents (now 31,183) have rebuffed repeated Spanish attempts to reclaim the territory. In 1969, Spanish Dictator General Francisco Franco cut land, sea and telephone links with the colony. His intention: literally to starve Gibraltar's inhabitants into agreeing to a reunion with Spain. But the Gibraltarians, determined to remain under British rule, turned to nearby Morocco for supplies...
...sibyls, and the narrative of the Old Testament. The last four years are reserved for The Last Judgment. In all, it will have taken the Vatican's small team of restorers (headed by the chief of its painting- restoration laboratory, Gianluigi Colalucci) longer to clean the 13,000 sq. ft. of fresco than it took Michelangelo to paint...
Those tactics appear to be part of a government strategy to force an end to Africa's longest-running war. For 23 years, Eritrean guerrillas have been battling governments in Addis Ababa. The prize is control of their 45,400-sq.- mi. homeland, a former Italian colony absorbed by Ethiopia in 1962 during the rule of the late Emperor Haile Selassie. In the mid-1970s, the insurgents were joined in the struggle by Tigrean guerrillas demanding greater autonomy for their 25,400-sq.-mi. province. The insurgencies have intensified in the years since the 1974 coup against Haile Selassie that...
Saturn Corp. will begin life with about $150 million in capital, but it is expected to spend $5 billion during the next three to five years. About $3.5 billion of that, said Smith, will go toward building a vast factory of & approximately 4 million sq. ft. at a site not yet determined by GM's planners. The plant could be built in a little more than two years, with cars rolling off the assembly line and into showrooms by the fall of 1987. Says an impatient Smith: "I don't like to wait long for anything." The effort could create...