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Given the initial communications void, there was no way of knowing how many casualties had occurred in Mexico's rural areas. But scattered damage was reported from the coastal states of Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco and Michoacan. These were close to the epicenter, which geologists located offshore near the border between Michoacan and Guerrero, some 200 miles southwest of Mexico City. Fortunately, the affected states are sparsely populated, and their rocky underpinnings provided some resistance to the tremors. Still, at least 150 people were reported killed in Jalisco and 30 in Michoacan, where two hotels were leveled at the resort...
...many years ago, downtown St. Louis was, like most old American downtowns, a void, dreary and disheartening, a place where respectable people worked, bums lived and almost nobody strolled. Given that lifelessness, the city's attempt to create a heroic modern monument to itself in 1965, Eero Saarinen's arch beside the Mississippi, came to seem like self-mockery: a pure, gorgeous steel span rising from a dying downtown and a forgotten riverfront, a giant logo erected as a wishful substitute for authentic urban reconstruction...
This week's appointment of L. Fred Jewett '57 as dean of the College will leave a void at the top of the Harvard Admissions Office that could take up to a year to fill, officials said this week...
Washington stood firm in its opposition to Botha's policies. Warren Clark, the alternate U.S. representative to the U.N. Security Council, declared that the U.S. "rejects the establishment of the so-called interim government in Namibia as null and void. These institutions created by Pretoria have no standing." The U.S., however, along with Britain, abstained on a Security Council-passed resolution calling on member states to "consider . . . taking appropriate voluntary measures" against South Africa over its action in Namibia...
When their guards were up, the experts in Indianapolis tended to talk in the void jargon of management science: proactive modes, assessment of capabilities, lethal-type substances impacting on the environment, mass- casualty situations. Of course, those in the catastrophe business have a better excuse than most for their tendency toward euphemism. "I have found," said the Rev. Fred Page, a Presbyterian minister from Ruston, La., "that using the word morgue with someone who has just lost a loved one may not be best...