Word: williamsburg
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Michael T. Caughey Williamsburg...
Following the commitment made by leaders of seven industrialized nations at the Williamsburg summit last May to devote our full political energy to the search for peace, I undertook a personal initiative to seek ways to improve East-West relations. When the two largest military powers each have over 20,000 nuclear weapons, any one of which is many times more powerful than the bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, their relationship is of vital interest to all nations. I believe each individual leader must see the search for stability as a personal responsibility. It is far too important...
...second venture, the PAZ project, will soon start construction in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. It is a remodeling of a 1904 Y.M.C.A. building now owned by a Hasidic Jewish developer. The building will serve various commercial purposes, including housing a kosher restaurant, but it will also have a roof garden and spaces for religious festivities. As Wines designed it, PAZ (the name comes from the initials of the three principals in the development company) will resemble a ruined brick shell brought to life by a new glass enclosure. Two existing ornate portals will be replicated to provide four entrances...
...went down to Williamsburg with five healthy bodies and a lot of question marks," said Coach Don Usher...
...grudgingly agreed at the Williamsburg economic summit in May to consider more ambitious actions. Under prodding from French President François Mitterrand, Washington said it would help stabilize foreign-exchange markets whenever trading became unusually hectic. Some foreign officials, however, had doubted that the Reagan Administration would honor that agreement. Said French Finance Minister Jacques Delors early last week: "The Americans mock Europe and pursue their policies with insensitivity. They only do what's in their own interest...