Word: towns
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...countries, double that of the late '70s. And at the party congress, Alia called for further increases in foreign trade. A key step in this direction came earlier this year when the Albanian stretch of a 40-mile rail link, for freight trains only, was opened between the town of Shkoder and the Yugoslav city of Titograd. The Albanians have also made deals with West European firms to obtain factory and telecommunications equipment, as well as diesel trucks...
...elected civilian President in more than half a century, and his platform promised an end to a bloody civil war that was then nearly five years old. The new President boldly proposed peace talks with the Marxist rebels, then met their leaders at a church in La Palma, a town in guerrilla-held territory. Buoyed by generous aid from the U.S., Duarte vowed to revitalize the country's moribund economy. Today, however, an end to both the simmering war and the deepening economic crisis seems a distant possibility...
...chairman of Lawrence University's psychology department, the president of a local construction company, the CEO of a large paper company, the executive director of the county's Outagamie Museum, the city's director of planning and development and about 200 of their friends, neighbors and out- of-town guests...
...night clerk at the Waverly Hotel taught him his first rope trick. Gus Zuehlke, today the chairman of Valley Bancorporation, remembers listening to his father spin tales about young Ehrich's daring escapes from the Fox River, which meanders its way right through the heart of town. "My father used to help him," asserts Zuehlke, and who's to say whether or not such stories are true...
...highly respected executive, Besse was beginning to improve loss-riddled Renault's fortunes. He had had little involvement in politics and avoided the public spotlight, preferring instead to spend his free time tending the roses at his country home southwest of Paris. The businessman was just steps from his town house in Paris' Montparnasse district last Monday night when two women emerged from the shadows. "It's good, let's go!" one of them shouted. As horrified | passersby looked on, she fired three shots from a 9-mm pistol at Besse. "Get lost," barked the second woman, waving...