Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1960s, the close-knit New York City real estate community took notice of the new kids in town when the Tisches built the Summit Hotel, two apartment buildings and several motels. They acquired other hotels across the U.S., including the Mark Hopkins in San Francisco and the Ambassador hotels in Chicago...
...Egyptian territory seized by the Israelis in 1967 would eventually be recovered, but when the Israelis withdrew from the rest of the Sinai in April 1982 under the terms of the 1979 peace treaty, they held on to Taba. The coastal strip, five miles southwest of the Israeli town of Eilat, already boasted a Tahitian-style resort village, complete with topless beach, which had been built by a businessman with a 98-year lease from the Israeli government. Seven months later, in November 1982, another entrepreneur completed a 326-room, $20 million hotel at Taba. The builder, Eli Papouchado, knew...
...million lawsuit three years ago, is declining comment on what his publicist dismisses as "regurgitated material." Instead, he was back doing it his way last week, at the opening of the renovated Chicago Theater, where he got an ovation for his finger-snapping rendition of My Kind of Town. Says Kelley of her subject: "He's the most fascinating man on earth...
...township on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Calling King "a symbol of what my people continue sacrificing for," she added, "We draw a great deal of inspiration from her strength and courage." For King, who was in South Africa for the installation of Desmond Tutu as Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the highly charged meeting was one of the less controversial moments of a week that drew her into the vortex of the country's complex racial politics. King had originally planned to see both State President P.W. Botha and Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the moderate leader of South Africa's six million...
...pistol; his thick hands are clasped around the stock and barrel of a Hungarian-made AKM assault rifle, private serial number 000. Suddenly, the stillness is broken by the shouts of 1,000 of Garang's guerrillas passing on their way to battle at nearby Kapoeta, a southern Sudanese town 140 miles east of the city of Juba. First they chant, "Garang, Garang, Garang." Then they break into song...