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...China can take over the "New Territories," an essentially agricultural area that makes up four-fifths of the 400-sq.-mi. colony, when a 99-year lease expires in 1997. That will reduce the colony to Kowloon and Hong Kong Island, the two centers of business and tourism that were ceded to Britain in perpetuity by China's emperors. Legalities aside, Red China could overrun Hong Kong in 24 hours whenever it wished. What permits business optimism is the belief that Peking finds the status quo alluring. Red China earns nearly half of its foreign exchange-upwards...
Huson Jackson of Sert, Jackson and Associates, said that his architectural firm is redrawing plans for the building. The new plans will exclude over 70,000 sq. ft. of floor space allocated for computing facilities...
...killing sea of oil off Southern California grew ever wider and more elusive. Though the eleven-day leak on Union Oil Company's offshore rig had been successfully plugged, its 800-sq.-mi. slick returned with each tide. And it was fed anew by a residual leak under Platform A that appeared last week...
There has been little restoration inside the Citadel, the 2¼-sq.-mi. complex of huge fortified walls, moats and gardens that shields the old Imperial City. The fighting was heaviest inside its walls, and so was the damage. TIME Correspondent David Greenway, who covered some of the grimmest fighting a year ago, returned recently to Hué. He recalls crouching in a house near the Citadel's east wall while waiting for an air strike. With him was a grimy U.S. Marine sergeant. Amid the noise of small arms and mortar rounds, the Marine muttered, "We sure...
Bulky Bundle. The man in Ontario Street in Chicago, that is. With the aid of half-a-dozen assistants, 10,000 sq. ft. of dark brown canvas and 4,000 ft. of manila rope, Christo has turned Chicago's chunky Museum of Contemporary Art into an imposing if somewhat minimal-looking bundle. It is part of a five-week-long display of his talents, with packaged furniture and pictures shown indoors...