Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...merely setting up a land bank, he says, won't make the city's housing shortage go away...
...Free land is important but it won't make units affordable," says Stockard, explaining that the city needs a variety of state and federal subsidies to keep the price of housing down...
Gorbachev has decided to throw the issues out for public debate, arguing that "the people must make their choice." There seems little doubt, however, that Shatalin's radical 500-day program, with some modifications, will prevail. The most telling vote came last week in the parliament of the Russian Republic, led by Yeltsin, where deputies approved the basic outlines of the Shatalin package by a lopsided count of 213 to 2. They also issued an appeal to other parliaments across the nation to follow their lead in approving the plan as quickly as possible. Yeltsin added a proviso: "The adoption...
Ostrovsky's most sensational claim is that in 1983 Mossad received specific intelligence, down to the make of a Mercedes truck outfitted to carry bombs, that Shi'ite extremists in Beirut were planning a major terrorist attack. Though the U.S. forces then stationed in Lebanon were an obvious target possibility, Mossad officials only warned the U.S. in the most general terms. The attack was carried out at Marine Corps headquarters and resulted in 241 American deaths. Writes Ostrovsky: "The problem was that if we had leaked information and it was traced back, our informant would have been killed. The next...
...that elections scheduled for Nov. 4 would be postponed until perhaps December because of a lack of funds. The news threatened to unravel the caretaker administration of President Ertha Pascal Trouillot, whose six-month-old transition government has already been tarnished by charges of corruption and incompetence. "She cannot make good on her pledge to hold genuine elections, so her administration has lost its reason to exist," observed Gerard Pierre-Charles, a left-wing political analyst. "We are sliding inexorably toward the temptation of a military coup...