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...complex of shops and restaurants where warehouses once stood, Underground Atlanta was meant to be a symbol of the city's new vibrancy when it opened in 1969. Instead, it became a study in urban failure: thieves and rowdy teenagers patrolled abandoned storefronts as shoppers fled to the suburbs. The place was shuttered...
...Atlanta is trying again. Nearly 5,000 boosters braved a thunderstorm last week to celebrate the reopening of Underground after a 2 1/2-year renovation that cost $142 million, including $85 million in city-backed bonds. The complex, decorated in turn-of-the-century style, will eventually boast 140 stores, restaurants and nightclubs -- as well as dozens of security guards meant to reassure the suburbanites and tourists who are essential to the downtown's revitalization. Critics charge that the city's money could be better spent elsewhere. Protesters disrupted Mayor Andrew Young's opening address by chanting "Atlanta keeps the homeless...
...staggered through the election branded an overprivileged airhead. As candidates or incumbents, Vice Presidents often attract some derision. For the young golf addict, it was a nearly lethal dose. "I came to the office adding a bit of luster to that ridicule," he muses. Allies advised him to go underground, to avoid risks. But with escalating speculation that Bush would dump him in 1992, Quayle and his advisers decided that inactivity was the biggest risk of all. "We had to move before the clay hardened," says his chief of staff, William Kristol...
...last week: "There is not a single institution that has not been besmirched in these past weeks." The threat of civil war has not entirely vanished -- if only as a psychological rather than an actual battle. The students' calls for democracy had unparalleled national support, which may have gone underground but will not go away. Perhaps 300,000 troops are still encamped around the capital. The Communist Party leadership is distrusted by large numbers of its own people. The men at the top have been condemned by the outside world as the enemies of the people...
What finally pushed the Jaruzelski government to the bargaining table was the same thing that sparked the popular uprisings of 1956, 1970 and 1981: economics. Although the regime could drive Solidarity underground, it could not make the country's hopelessly inefficient factories produce more or put food on empty grocery shelves. For more than seven years, Jaruzelski tried to carry out economic reforms while refusing to negotiate with Solidarity or democratize the political structure. The results were dismal: industrial production fell steadily, while the foreign debt climbed to $39.2 billion and inflation crept toward 100%. When public discontent erupted...