Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same could be said about present-day Atlantic City, which is, above all, Trump's town, with a Trump Plaza, Trump Castle, Trump Princess and billboards all around the city trumpeting the message YOU'RE LOOKING VERY TRUMP TODAY. When his Aladdin-style Taj Mahal is completed next spring, Trump will control 31% of the city's gaming capacity, 39% of the first-class hotel rooms, 40% of the convention space, 35% of the parking spaces and almost half a mile of frontage along the five-mile Boardwalk. "I'll tell you, it's Big Business," he says, peering down...
Trump, who owns a sizable chunk of the city, conveniently popped up on her first visit. Painton had booked a flight aboard the Trump Air helicopter service, only to discover the tycoon himself was a passenger. Trump pointed out the town's attractions and even gave her a ride from the airport in his limousine. On other visits, Painton traveled less grandly aboard the buses that carry many of the millions of gamblers who constitute Atlantic City's primary source of income...
...diplomatic ballet, however, was a mere sideshow to the drama of the border crossings. When the order came from Budapest at midnight last Sunday, Hungarian border guards blocking the 600-yard crossing at Hegyeshalom to the Austrian town of Nickelsdorf smiled and began to wave the refugees through. Across they came, on foot and bicycles, in German Wartburgs and Czech Skodas. Some drivers paused to put black tape over the first D and the R on their DDR vehicle-identification stickers, leaving a single D for Deutschland. "What a Monday!" cried an Austrian radio newscaster. "Boris Becker wins...
COVER: When casino gambling came to Atlantic City, residents rejoiced. Now a town known for fleecing suckers looks like the victim...
...largest antiapartheid demonstration in 29 years, more than 20,000 people, mostly black and mixed race, marched without incident in the southern city of Cape Town. Said De Klerk: "The door to a new South Africa is open...