Prince Charles champions architecture reform in Britain
The Prince of Wales attacks modern architecture as ugly and mediocrity driven by 50s and 60s theories. He defends traditionalist views in A Vision of Britain, arguing for buildings that blend with the landscape and respect history. Critics call his rhetoric elitist while noting his praise for Canaletto and London’s architectural legacy.
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Prince of Wales
Britain
National Gallery
Prince Charles
Royal Institute of British Architects
Doubleday
British Library
Charles
National Theatre
London
Birmingham
Christopher Wren
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Wren
Antonio
Canaletto
Venice
Paris
Seine
Notre Dame
San Marco
Manhattan
New Republic
Herbert Mushchamp
Prince
Mushchamp
America
England
Washington
Frederick Hart
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Arts Quarterly
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Time for Soviets to change
Time for Soviets to change as the Malta summit yields cooperation while Moscow backs Marxist insurgents in El Salvador Cuba and Nicaragua supply the FMLN with weapons and billions in aid The piece urges President Bush to press Gorbachev to curb this intervention and notes Moscow’s fading influence as the USSR faces economic and political strain.
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Malta
Moscow
Central America
George Bush
Mikhail Gorbachev
U.S
Gorbachev
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front
Bush
Cuba
Nicaragua
Latin America
el Salvador
U.S.S.R
Kremlin
FMLN
Fidel Castro
Daniel Ortega
Europe
Soviet Union
Brezhnev
Havana
Managua
Caribbean
CIA
United States
Off budget promises grow to five trillion dollars
GAO reports Washington's soft obligations loan guarantees and insurance have swollen tenfold since 1965 to 5 trillion, a figure that dwarfs annual deficits and risks future taxpayer losses. Losses on direct loans rose to 21.2 billion in 1988, while loan guarantees defaulted 138 percent since 1983, prompting calls to curb risk and consider stricter funding or direct aid.
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General Accounting Office
GAO
Washington
Congress
Treasury
Deer hunting notes and wild bear tale in Pennsylvania
A column explores deer hunting statistics in Illinois and Pennsylvania, noting 42 000 deer taken statewide during a three day shotgun season and 7 294 deer involved in Illinois automobile crashes. It highlights Pennsylvania bears, with 233 killed by cars and 2 217 harvested by hunters, amid a wild countryside north of Interstate 80.
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Lee County
Ogle County
Illinois Department of Conservation
Illinois Department of Transportation
Illinois
James J. Kilpatrick
Telegraph
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Montana
Canadian
Pennsylvania Game and Wildife Division
Maine
Washington
Dixon JA seeks academic credit for program in schools
Decades of local note describe Dixon Junior Achievement pushing for school credit with Robert E. Manson of Commonwealth Edison and other officials urging the Dixon School Board to grant JA academic credit while neighboring Quad Cities districts already offer it. Also recalled are a 1964 forecast about naming cold spells and a 1939 county road project plan to absorb WPA labor and build roads.
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Dixon Junior Achievement
Robert E. Manson
Commonwealth Edison
Dixon School Board
Quad Cities
Dixon
U.S. Weather Bureau
Northern Illinois Gas Co
Ni-Gas
Lee County Board of Supervisors
Fred Leake
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C. A. Maronich
Ken Brown
Brian Olmsted
Louise Brass
Clark Kelly
Chip Marshall
Jim Nelson
Ed Bushman
Laura Butler
Deana Hoimeelmaan
Elizabeth Lovett
Mark Robins
Diane Shehorn
Linda Ross
Kathy Grossman
Rhonda Klayenga
Jane Monroe
Bernadine Willstead
Tracey L
Montgomery
Cathy Harshman
Edwin E. Smith Jr
Systemer
Rina Aebly
Scott Brown
LeeAnn
Stephanie Heather
Thomas Mckee
Gunars Kulikovskis
Richard Devine
Robert * Dogue
Rosemary Flowers
Robert Gorman
John Jacobs
Dick Kibble
Joe Leadman
Angela Bester
Robert Fenwick
Bruce Belman
Matt Brady
Dave Johnson
Jo Anne Mills
Carol Hemminger
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Carole Houck
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