Word: 32nd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Especially inventive are Nabokov's condensed metaphors, like those in the poetry of imagists such as Ezra Pound. Eerie images flash through the half-aware mind. In the midst of a frenzy of frustrated desire, the protagonist fleetingly notes that the morning's newspaper is dated the 32nd. When the sleepy little girl is led into the hotel, she watches a "doubling cat" through her blurred vision...
...Well, not quite, but after a successful trial run, gaggles of geese will soon begin guard duty at American military installations in West Germany. Eventually, 900 of the squawking waterfowl, in platoons of six to 40, will take up posts at 30 sites run by the U.S. Army's 32nd Air Defense Command. The idea is not as ludicrous as it may seem. With their acute sense of hearing, geese when startled sound the alarm by hissing, honking loudly and flapping their wings. Indeed, the ancient Romans used geese as guards. The web-footed sentinels are said to have saved...
...personnel, who were known to be present at Surt. But the U.S. had quietly informed Moscow of its intentions in advance. Says one Navy source, referring to the placement of Gaddafi's "line of death": "We told the Soviets explicitly what we intended to do, including transiting below the 32nd parallel. They didn't have to read between the lines." When the attacks were launched, the Soviets apparently were not around. "Maybe they were taking a coffee break," said one official wryly. The Soviets had one communication ship anchored at Surt and kept it lit up like a country carnival...
...sent Navy jet fighters across the line (slightly north of the 32nd parallel, some 130 miles off the Libyan coast) in 1981, and shot down two Libyan planes after one attacked them. Two months ago the Navy sent two carriers steaming toward the gulf, but did not actually penetrate the disputed waters. This time, Navy officials insisted, a direct challenge to Gaddafi is "inevitable." As President Reagan told TIME last week, "Some ships and planes will cross that line," and "anytime our men are fired upon, we fire back." And now the Navy is better prepared for whatever might follow...
...gulf "to defend Libya's territorial waters." On Friday four Libyan MiG fighters headed toward the U.S. carriers, which were then about 300 miles offshore and well north of the point that Gaddafi calls "the line of death" and has staked out as his sea boundary (midway between the 32nd and 33rd parallels, 130 miles from the Libyan coast). When Navy jets were directed toward the Libyan aircraft, the Libyan pilots quickly turned back. "It looks like a cat-and-mouse game," observed a Western diplomat in Cairo...