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First, though, Dhuvaafaru will be given a revetment-reinforced beach bordered by trees and shrubs, and key areas near the center will be raised with landfill. On top of these artificial high points, public buildings--such as a school, a clinic, a mosque--will add a further vertical dimension, creating what government officials refer to as a "safe island," or at least a safer one. "Certainly we will leave the Maldives if we have to," says Amjad Abdulla, deputy director of strategic policy in the Ministry of Environment and Construction, "but we'd like to stay...
...trucks labeled LIVE MAINE LOBSTERS. All three members of the cockpit crew were killed. The pilot, Captain Ted Connors, 57, had flown for Delta for 31 years. One passenger survived because she made a lucky decision. Assigned a front seat before takeoff from Fort Lauderdale, Annie Edwards, of Pompano Beach, Fla., shifted to a rear seat beside a friend, Juanita Williams. Both survived. They were among a group of women going to Dallas to attend a convention of Delta Sigma Theta, a sorority. Other passengers were heading for Los Angeles, the flight's last stop. Friends checking the arrivals list...
...attempts to control black political dissent [WORLD, July 29] are doomed to failure. Ultimately the young black militants will be driven into the arms of the Communists, who will provide these angry and frustrated revolutionaries with guerrilla training and weapons. Then the bloodbath will really start. James Snowden Long Beach, Calif...
...distinctive gray-and-black dinghy floating in the harbor near the wreck of the trawler. The dinghy, they found, was of a type not sold in New Zealand, though it is commonly used by the French navy. Oxygen tanks used by divers that were washed up on a nearby beach also bore French registration marks. "Why didn't they leave behind a Basque beret, a loaf of bread and a bottle of Beaujolais?" one DGSE spokesman asked...
Mydans was released in time to cover the fighting in Italy and France, then accompanied General Douglas MacArthur's campaign in the Philippines, where he took one of the war's best-known shots: Mac Arthur sloshing onto the beach at Luzon. For a home front with fresh memories of the war's bleak beginnings, it was more than a picture; it was an encapsulation of every hope. Forty years later, we see not just the redoubtable general but also the canny military showman who knows that victory is the ultimate photo opportunity...