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<br />university, but it wasn't until two
<br />v : later that a friend managed to
<br />L ; it from France," he said.
<br />wur wcm umsnea in.
<br />November began to attract small
<br />groups of friends for readings.
<br />age of 13, naked his position and his
<br />family's well-being by denouncing
<br />corruption among seniorparty offi
<br />cials, an act that got him thrown out
<br />: received an ominous visit from "two .. Cana,
<br />'-young men in good suits," a sr ign a few
<br />in impoverished Albania that t
<br />callers were linked with thy state se- "All I
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<br />Iy sustain two more 18-hole golf
<br />courses —'it has just one, ' if the
<br />city only had the land, Edina's Brae-
<br />mar Golf Course is stretched to ca-
<br />"We've been talking about'a munidi-
<br />pal golf course!. (it's) got to be. 25
<br />years now, ". said Robert DeGhetto,
<br />the ciry's former mayor and a current
<br />r "'
<br />news
<br />pactty and wants to expand; hun-
<br />dreds of golfers sometimes stand in
<br />Ctty ouncil member, .The city is
<br />trying to build a golf course near the
<br />lines three deep just to use the driv-
<br />Hennepin County Home School, sl-
<br />ing range. Inver Grove Heights will
<br />though DeGhetto concedes that the
<br />ASIA sl
<br />open its own 27-hole course next
<br />latest attempt also may fail. A 1989
<br />year. Minnetonka has again been
<br />survey of 403 Minnetonka residents
<br />Two more bodies were recovered
<br />thinking about building. Ramsey
<br />found that 50 percent supported a
<br />from the oil barge that sank in a h
<br />County wants to build three subur-
<br />municipal golf course and that nearly'
<br />typhoon off Hong Kong Thursday; h
<br />ban golf facilities, including a golf
<br />40 percent were opposed, making it .
<br />they were divers who became
<br />training center. Coon Rapids expand-"
<br />."the most controversial of the recre-
<br />trapped in the vessel's diving bell - o
<br />ed its Bunker Hills Golf Course a
<br />ational projects" tested.
<br />during the accident, which killed at
<br />year ago, adding a nine -hole course.
<br />Mayor Tim Bergstedt said he thinks
<br />least 15 people. Two planes and 10 -
<br />police patrol boats continued search -
<br />The municipal golf course mania is
<br />the support for a golf course is there:
<br />ing Fong Kong's coastal waters for
<br />almost a perfect marriage. Outlying
<br />"I
<br />seven other crewmen who are miss -
<br />suburbs have the land and a popula-
<br />tion whose demographics produce
<br />don't think prestige figures into it
<br />at all .:. I don't think people think of
<br />ing and feared dead.
<br />golfers by the thousands. Minnesota
<br />Minnetonka as a second-class suburb
<br />I
<br />has the highest percentage of resi-
<br />because we don't have an 18-hole
<br />Seii. John Kerry told a top Com-
<br />dents who play golf in the United
<br />golf course," the mayor said. "I don't
<br />munist official from Vietnam that , , a
<br />States.
<br />_
<br />think we'd be doing it to keep up,`.
<br />lifting the U.S. economic embargo
<br />with Edina.'
<br />could help settle the issue of missing,
<br />And only golf courses — as opposed
<br />servicemen, Hanoi's official radio d
<br />to swimming pools and softball dia-
<br />Inver Grove Heights officials decided,
<br />reported. The broadcast, monitored a
<br />monds — offer a suburb the, dual
<br />to go ahead when a consultant's '
<br />in Bangkok; Thailand, said Kerry, _ ^ ` : ,
<br />prospect of being self-supporting and
<br />study promised a total of $6 million
<br />D-Mass.; met with Communist Par -
<br />making a major contribution to a
<br />in net income after debt service over `
<br />ty General Secretary Do Muoi in e
<br />city's green space.
<br />20 years. The course, according to
<br />Hanoi on Saturday. Kerry heads a -
<br />the study, will.' have a. positive net
<br />new Senate MIA investigation pan- bi
<br />"I see absolutely no letup whatso-
<br />income of $69,000 as early as 1996.
<br />el. ..
<br />ever," said Rick Sitek, who manages
<br />The $6 million golf. course will have
<br />"exec
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<br />the Dwan Golf Course, Blooming-
<br />ton's city -owned facility. "We are
<br />an 18-hole course; a dine -hole
<br />utive" golf course,; a 40atation drive
<br />Workers trekked through the
<br />generally booked solid, 7 to 7, seven
<br />ing range and a clubhouse.
<br />jungle in eastern India, bearing the ' II
<br />days a week seven days in advance."
<br />charred bodies of most of the 69 st
<br />But some city officials, despite the
<br />passengers from a jetliner that a
<br />With 2,000 patrons and only 90 tee
<br />glowing projections, are nervous.
<br />times available a day, Dwan is host
<br />to 60,000 rounds of golf a summer. A
<br />"I certainly, hope it is (profitable),"
<br />juniors program at Dwan, teaching said Mayor Rosemary Piekarski--
<br />children age 10 to 17 how to play,
<br />Krech, who was elected after the city
<br />jumped from 80 participants last year
<br />decided to build the course If golf
<br />to 160 this summer, and enrollment
<br />remains as popular as it is ... it
<br />will have to be limited next year.
<br />should make a fortune.
<br />A driving range that opened a month "(But) racquetball was an up and
<br />ago at Hyland Greens, two small
<br />coming thing, and there are a lot of
<br />city -owned par -three courses, is ex-
<br />(empty) racquetball courts '. she said.
<br />pected to generate at least $100,000 a
<br />year by itself. Although many sub- ..
<br />Warren' Krech a City Council mem-
<br />urbs pour surplus revenues from'
<br />back into '.fewreservations.
<br />ber,: voted for Inver Wood but had a
<br />?
<br />their golf courses the
<br />course, there are exceptions, which
<br />'
<br />point to how hearty the business can
<br />"Their weak point was they projected
<br />be for Total governments. In Edina,
<br />fullplay for the,course,"' Krech said
<br />the city's entire geese eradication
<br />of the consultant's study. "They pro
<br />budget — regardless of where the .
<br />jc . it would play at capacity after the
<br />geese are taken from — comes from
<br />second full year. I just didn't buy
<br />the city's golf course revenue. In
<br />that.".
<br />Bloomington, the city uses its golf
<br />'
<br />course revenue to make improve-
<br />At•Edina's Braemar.Golf Course, a
<br />ments to the pity's ice garden.
<br />$2 million -a -year operation that re-
<br />mains the envy of many cities, there
<br />And in Ramsey County, the
<br />are too many golfers and not enough
<br />$159,000 in net income from the
<br />'golf course. The Bnteniar; 18-hole
<br />ammed into a mountain Friday.. .
<br />The Indian Airlines jet crashed 27
<br />ndles'short of its destination of Imp -
<br />al. There were no survivors. There
<br />as been no official word on the
<br />cause, but government and airline
<br />fficiala privately blamed the pilot,
<br />Capt. S. Haider, for straying 10 to 12
<br />miles off course while coming in to
<br />land in turbulent weather.
<br />EUROPE
<br />taly completed the forced repa-
<br />triation of more than 3,000 Albani-
<br />a asylum -seekers, Reports said
<br />some were tricked into thinking they
<br />were being sent to other parts of
<br />taly. Nine flights to send back
<br />bout 500 Albanian army deserters,
<br />who_weie accompanied by Italian
<br />poliee;'were the last state of an oper-
<br />ion that.began with'a roundup of -
<br />fugees before daivnSaturday. Al- ..
<br />iEAST
<br />el has successfully tested a
<br />based missile designed to inter-
<br />eoemyrockets, according to Is-
<br />eaw
<br />county -owned Killer Golf Course m
<br />Maplewood last year went to the
<br />men s league, which tees off at 8.30
<br />every Thursday' morning, has as
<br />Save 20°Io On all 5P OrtsWeaf and
<br />county's general parks and recreation
<br />fund. Keller, built in 1929, is one of
<br />many golfers on list waiting to join
<br />a
<br />as it has members. "Neither the club
<br />.
<br />outerwearfrom Patagonia, Columbia,
<br />three countyowned.golfcourses.
<br />nor the course can accommodate
<br />and.Qulksilver.
<br />Ramsey County is now considering a
<br />them," said John Valliere, the course
<br />manager.
<br />�1
<br />plan to spend as much as $8.7 mil-
<br />lion on three new golf courses that
<br />q, plan to add nine holes to Braemer
<br />.
<br />Save 20% on all hiking boots
<br />would open in the mid- to late 1990s.
<br />One of the proposals, now targeted
<br />has drawn environmental opposition
<br />b-cause it would infringe on a wet -
<br />and Casual f 'otwearfrortl Timberland,
<br />for Island lake in Shoreview, would
<br />iand. Says a frustrated valliere: "I got
<br />Merrell, Vasque; and Nike. (Some brands
<br />be a golf teaching and training facility
<br />a driving range (alone) that's going to
<br />not available at Arden'.HIIls store)
<br />with a practice range, puiting and
<br />chipping greens and professional golf
<br />lessons.
<br />do a quarter of million dollars" of.
<br />business this year.
<br />Save 2007,6 on all luggage: Make
<br />"They pay their own freight, plus
<br />provide revenue that helps reduce
<br />the reliance on property taxes," said
<br />Greg Mack, the county's parks and
<br />recreation director. "There is a grow-
<br />ing demand for golf. We see it. We
<br />read about it"
<br />Inver Grove Heights reacted.quickly
<br />to the demand, and the Inver Wood
<br />Golf Course will open next June, just
<br />four years after being proposed. But
<br />other suburbs — Minnetonka is a
<br />good example — have spent decades
<br />trying to bring together the land, po-
<br />litical support and money needed to
<br />build a course.
<br />"The driving range," he said, "is
<br />nuts."
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<br />1960s, Minnetonka has talked about
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<br />have been stopped by referendum i s , s
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