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BARCELONA BRIEFS
B^^^^ARCELONA Spain. June 24: Thirteen new sports are nas. Thousands of new offices and hotel rooms. A renovated airport and dlrs 2 billion of road work.
The Summer Olympics have meant an explosion of construction tn the Barcelona area. And that translates into a lot of trash, reports AP.
Barcelona officials calculate that the amount of garbage produced in the city went up by 35 percent between 1985 and 1990. Most of the Olympic related construction began during that period.
The city survey gives other indications of how the Olympics have transformed Barcelona.
It shows the number of international passengers at Barcelona's airport increased by 90 percent during those five years, and the number of international telephone calls made from Barcelona in that period went up by 169 percent.
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PRAYING TOGETHER: The Abraham Center, which will provide Catholic. Protestant. Jewish. Buddhist and Islamic services for athletes during the Summer Games, has been inaugurated in the Olympic village.
The ecumenical center will include a worship area with a capacity of about 250 people, as well as offices and meeting rooms.
The center is named after Abraham, the biblical patriarch recognized as a central figure tn Christianity. Judaish and
Resembling the shape of a fish, the center's design ts intended be of an ecumenical nature that appeals to people of various religions. It does not have transept, dome or columns, but does have a belfry.
After the Olympics. U will become a parish church.
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SPREADING THE WEALTH: Though most of the eco nomte benefits of the Olympics will be in Barcelona, surrounding communities also are using the Games to spur investment.
Officials tn SUges. a beach town about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Barcelona, said private Investors have pumped more than dlrs 100 million Into hotel construction and renovation there in the last flue years.
Badalona. a northern suburb of Barcelona, has a new dlrs 26 million arena that wil host the men's basketball compe tllion during the Games. Badalona also will host the Olympic (taxing tournament, as well as a 900-apartment media village.
The media village Is next to a shopping mall and ts connected to Barcelona by a new highway. The entire area was empty until the Olympic development.
Two years ago this part of town was called the Badalona desert." said Enric Mayolas. director of the media village. 'There was nothing here.'
Even the ancient Greco-Roman port of EmpuHes. 120 kms (75 miles) north of Barcelona. is using the Olympics as an excuse for sprucing up.
Empuries, where the Olympic torch arrived June 13 from Greece to begin its 43-day relay around Spain, has tn vested dlrs 8 million In tourist Improvements at the archae <*«**»»■