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...position and angle of the building also posed a problem since many trees surround the new complex," Wolfman said. He added that cutting down the trees would have antagonized the residents of the neighborhood...
...back their Soviet T-54 and PT-76 Soviet tanks and ar mored personnel carriers, maintaining air control by means of captured U.S. F-5Es and A-37s, along with Soviet MiGs, the Vietnamese started a second-phase maneuver. They moved along rural routes into isolated areas seeking to surround and wipe out the pockets they had bypassed in the initial rush. Unable to bring ar tillery to bear on such swiftly moving foes, the Khmer offered only brief opposition and then faded back to secondary defenses...
...offices of the Ministry of Justice, the national police and the Jerusalem district court into the eastern sector of the city. Begin has even talked of moving the Premier's offices there. In addition, Israeli governments have built seven huge, utilitarian apartment complexes on the hills and ridges that surround East Jerusalem. Only Jews live in these housing projects. Their population, currently about 52,000, is expected to reach 120,000 by 1988. The Israeli economy has provided jobs for thousands of East Jerusalem's Arabs in the western part of the city, thereby creating a permanent economic link...
...screamed across the Yard two years ago, protesting the assignment of 150 unwilling freshmen to South House. And, not surprisingly the administration reacted to the dissatisfaction in a material way, deciding to allot a few more dollars of the budget to enchance the appeal of the six dorms that surround the Radcliffe Quadrangle. $435,000 of that money went to finance a new dining hall in Cabot Hall, begun in August 1977 and originally scheduled for completion last January...
Tribute is a rich play, not brilliant but solid. The characters who surround the protagonist--his sympathetic ex-wife, tolerant, devoted doctor, et al--are stock, but Slade fuses each of them with life. As a one-time writer of sit-coms (over 100, it is reported), he must have learned how to play around with stereotypes, searching for that one little crack of humanity in which to insert his fingers, opening the character up. Scottie's business partner, for example, is a huggable, Jewish, Lou Jacobi-type (warmly played by A. Larry Haines), the character who kids in plays...