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...vacant, except for the carcasses of two scorched jets on the runway. To the left stands Shuweifat, where Ahmed is on patrol. The vantage point is Israeli headquarters, a secondary school beside a music conservatory. Armored vehicles rest in the parking lot. It is here that one must arrange for an escort to the south, to Tyre. The trip is scheduled for Sunday. The Israeli officer is helpful. He laments the war. "The world has not been fair to the Palestinians." He tells of a Palestinian mother, the wife of a P.L.O. officer, who escaped West Beirut with her baby...
...between the desire to start a home of their own and to continue to live in the neighborhood, usually remain in the family lodging until a vacancy develops. "people aren't moving unless it's a necessity," says the Gore St resident, "and you can count [the number of vacant houses] on your hand...
...academic turned industrialist who has held three Cabinet-level portfolios, Shultz would undoubtedly have been a prime candidate for any major post that fell vacant in the Reagan Administration. "I met no one in public life for whom I developed greater respect and affection," wrote former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Years of Upheaval. "If I could choose one American to whom I would entrust the nation's fate in a crisis, it would be George Shultz." Soft-spoken and unassuming, Shultz provokes that kind of reaction from most of those who have worked with him. "He does...
Despite assurances by HRE officials during the negotiations that a sufficient number of units would be vacant by summer to accommodate the relocation, tenants said yesterday that only five units in Harvard-ownedbuildings are being shown to be group. Some tenants expressed skepticism that more apartments are not vacant and complained that HRE has not providedthem with a more complete list of available units...
...good month for tourists in Miami. It is hot, 90° or thereabouts; it is usually the rainiest month of the year; it is the beginning of the hurricane watch; and it is graduation time for a whole new generation of mosquitoes. As a result, hotels have vacant rooms, restaurants have empty tables, and taxi drivers roam the streets looking for a beckoning hand. What is needed, obviously, is something to make people flock to the area despite the weather. Out of such logic was born the New World Festival of the Arts, Miami's attempt to attract tourists...