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International-UN-NGOs
U.N. Looking for Cheap Temporary Space
2005-10-13
Hmmm, howzabout Timbuktu?
EFL

UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations is looking at everything in its search for cheap temporary space -- islands, cruise ships, and even large tents. And Brooklyn is definitely still in the running.

U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Louis Frederick Reuter IV, who took charge of the U.N.'s renovation and relocation four weeks ago, said the world body is scrambling to find temporary headquarters following the New York State legislature's refusal to give the go-ahead for a new building.

"We're looking at everything," Reuter said, adding that Brooklyn hadn't been ruled out. "We'll go anywhere if we can afford it. We're looking at boats, barges, islands, tents. We're looking at nonprofit space. We're looking at cheap space."

I hear the Department of Sanitation has a few surplus garbage scows...

Heh, should have given them the carrier America and then blown it up...
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