On Manhattan's East Side one day last week, a 2,000-lb. steel ball swung from a towering caterpillar crane, smashed into the base of a brick wall. Bricks and girders came thundering to earth in a billowing cloud of pink dust. The building under demolition was one of the last five remaining on the site of U.N.'s future headquarters.
But, though the 17-acre area was being rapidly leveled, U.N. still did not know just how soon it would be able to build the tall stone plinths of its permanent home. A bill to lend U.N. $65 million had finally been approved...
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