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...Democratic student effort to run candidatesand participate in local caucuses was the first ofits kind in recent memory, participants said...
Students spent time wooing local Democraticleaders and preparing speeches to appeal to partyactivists before the caucuses...
Ever since Chicago declared a ten-story building the world's first "skyscraper" in the 1880s, local developers have competed to see how high they could go. Since 1974, the Sears Tower (on the left in the model) has * ranked as the world's tallest building at 1,454 ft., but that title is about to be challenged by a planned $500 million tower only three blocks away from the current champ. Code-named Skyneedle, the 125-story building would soar to a height of nearly 2,000 ft. Rivals have criticized the proposal by developers Lee Miglin and Paul...
What the carefully coded words mean, in effect, is a system of separate but equal parliaments, neighborhoods and schools, a form of private rather than government segregation. At the local level, the group-rights concept would permit whites to live much as they do now. At the national level, it would require a cumbersome system of multiple lawmaking bodies ruling on narrow issues, with some sort of mechanism to settle issues of common interest that would allow the minority white community to retain a disproportionate share of power. Whites may be willing to go further than before toward accommodating black...
...task was not helped by the fact that the local authorities have been taking sides, supplying both Azerbaijanis and Armenians with weapons like pistols and Kalashnikov assault rifles. "The police say the weapons were stolen from them, but actually they handed the guns over," says Kupreyev. "There are more than enough supplies from Iran too. There have been reports that as many as 40,000 people crossed into Iran in a mass exodus ((on New Year's Eve)). The information is unconfirmed, but there certainly must be some truth in the reports that many people left ((towns all along...