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Athanson and his fellow Hartfordites were thankful that no one was hurt in the accident. But they were shaken, since the civic center was the symbol of the city's downtown renewal, and the 12,500-seat coliseum was the cynosure of the complex. Home of the World Hockey Association's New England Whalers, the arena was also the site of other sporting events, concerts and conventions. As a result of the roofs collapse, more than 300 scheduled events will have to be canceled; in the 1½ to two years that may be needed to rebuild...
...Congress's cow-and-calf emblem on the ballot-a crucial issue in a nation with 64% illiteracy. Now, in a plague-on-both-your-houses mood, a significant number of Congress Party regulars may cast their votes for Janata's man-with-a-plow emblem-a symbol for millions of the Desai government's restoration of civil rights in India...
...Foreign investment in the U.S. Cheaper dollars have led European investors, particularly West Germans, to buy American properties at bargain rates. Says Zurich Real Estate Broker Richard Ufer: "Ten years ago every German millionaire wanted to own a jet. Now the status symbol is a farm in America." But as the dollar's value sinks, some foreign investors are having second thoughts; profits on their U.S. investments are earned in dollars that are worth a declining number of marks and Swiss francs. The possibility is growing that foreign investors will pull much of their capital...
...open criticism of White House policy. But could Carter afford to dump the legendary and controversial Burns when his second four-year term as chairman of what has been called the nation's "Supreme Court of money" expires Jan. 31? At 73, Burns had become a rock-like symbol of resistance to inflation at home and a champion of a strong dollar abroad. He was trusted and admired by U.S. businessmen and foreign finance ministers, precisely the two groups most skeptical of Carter's own savvy as an economic manager...
DIED. Alberto Gainza Paz, 78, editor and publisher of Argentina's great 108-year-old La Prensa, who became an international symbol of a free press by defying Dictator Juan Perón; of cancer; in Buenos Aires. Forced into exile when Perón took over his paper in 1951, Gainza Paz resumed control in 1956 after the dictator's overthrow. Almost 20 years later La Prensa broke a story about the alleged misuse of a $700,000 check that contributed to the downfall of Perón's successor, his widow Isabel...