Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local faves opened for the Gurus, Dumptruck and the Turbines, whose contrast was a good reminder that there are some great and there are some terrible bands bouncing around this town. Where the Turbines put on a loud and boring batch of noise-rock sounding more like an amplified construction site than a musical ensemble, Dumptruck cruised through a complex and melodic set that, with a bit more stage polish, could have even upset the headline...
John McGivaren is a retired Navy pilot who found Freeport a quiet village when he moved here in 1977. Two years ago, with the pace quickening, Barbara campaigned against pell-mell development and won a seat on the town council. "We experienced a shock," she says. "Where Hathaway (shirts) is was Downs' grocery. That went out of business. Bass (shoes) used to be Freeport Variety, the paper store, and that's where you met your neighbor." Freeport has been gentrified, she says, by stores too pricey for her constituents. Yet, she confesses, "I'll tell you what...
...underscore Jerusalem's position one more time, Israeli jets streaked across eastern Lebanon on an anti-P.L.O. mission early last week. The fighters blasted P.L.O. targets that Israeli officials termed "terrorist bases" near the town of Bar Elias in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley. The bases apparently belonged to the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a dissident faction of the P.L.O. The raid came only a day before Hussein's meeting with Arafat...
Stofberg's victory, by a slim 367 votes out of 12,845 votes cast, was aided by the rival Conservative Party's agreement to stay out of the race. The Conservatives, who already hold 18 places in Parliament, came close to taking another seat themselves, losing in the town of Springs by only 749 votes. H.N.P. Leader Jaap Marais saw the elections as "a significant drift away from the National Party." The voting was made necessary by deaths and resignations in the all-white 178-seat House of Assembly, which dominates a tricameral Parliament that includes segregated chambers for coloreds...
...Marmottan Museum, a three-story town house in Paris' tony 16th arrondissement, shares the elegant Rue Louis-Boilly with embassies and mansions. The neighborhood's air of tranquillity was shattered one morning last week when five armed robbers invaded the museum, held some 40 tourists and eight guards at gunpoint, and made off with nine paintings valued at more than $10 million. Included in the haul was Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise, a 19th century masterpiece from which the Impressionist school takes its name...