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...yawning cavity where foundation and structure had parted. On many city streets, rows of boxlike shops have plunged several feet below crumbling sidewalks. Deep cracks creep along concrete walls of office buildings and townhouses. Floods strike if it rains more than one inch an hour. In early September a three-hour cloudburst covered most of the city with a foot of water...
...more mysterious diplomatic mission involved Mitterrand's lawyer and close personal friend, Roland Dumas, who flew to Tripoli for a three-hour meeting with Gaddafi. When word of Dumas's trip appeared in the press, French officials claimed that it was a "private" journey. There were unconfirmed reports that Dumas had warned Gaddafi that France would use force if the Libyans decided to advance on N'Djamena, and advised Gaddafi that he would do better to accommodate himself to the French presence than to risk bringing the U.S. and the Soviet Union into the conflict...
...lyrics for the Bing Crosby movie The Country Girl, Ira Gershwin did not do badly. Last week, when he died at 86, he had a "new" Broadway hit on Broadway (My One and Only, featuring 17 Gershwin songs) and a "new" movie about to be released (the restored, three-hour version of A Star Is Born, the 1954 Judy Garland vehicle he wrote with Harold Arlen). The words he set to music are still sung regularly in nightclubs and shower stalls around the world. With his brother, he helped shape modern popular music. He set toes tapping, the movies singing...
...nation's 9,224, are old and inadequate. St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo is jammed daily by more than 1,500 outpatients, who crowd the hallways for hours. Three ophthalmologists work simultaneously in the one examining room, while waiting patients stand by and watch. There is a stock Japanese complaint about visiting a hospital: "A three-hour wait for a three-minute exam...
...largest banks, which have loaned Brazil at least $12.7 billion, to review the deteriorating situation. The moneymen at the meeting agreed that the South American country will probably need loans worth at least an additional $2.5 billion to make it through 1983. Said one banker after the three-hour session: "Brazil's financial problems are reaching the point of crisis...