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...rock over an area at least 190 km (120 miles) long and 50 km (30 miles) wide. Scientists believe this rift was created several hundred million years ago, when the North American plate began to split and molten rock from the interior welled toward the surface. Though the breakup halted-for reasons as inexplicable as the original movement-a weak area remains in the form of the rift...
Until West Germany gained ascendancy as Western Europe's main heroin market, that dubious distinction belonged to Amsterdam, which had dominated the trade following the breakup of the infamous "French Connection" in 1972. But unlike the highly organized drug networks that have operated in France, The Netherlands and the U.S., the West German drug trade is mainly in the hands of individual entrepreneurs selling the stuff on their own. This makes it all the more difficult to stem the tide. Arrest statistics indicate that a very high proportion of the smugglers are Turkish immigrants, who constitute about...
Many a man has been corrupted by fine feathered friends, but one of the issues in the breakup of Robert and Dorothea Curley's marriage must be unique. Dorothea, 38, filed for divorce in Chicago after 18 years of marriage, three children and, at last count, 35 ducks. During a support hearing, she complained that the ducks her husband kept as pets upset the neighbors with their noise and untidy habits...
...kill the thing " Soon, however, the signs of deterioration were clear. At a height of 69 miles over the ocean, some of Skylab's batteries registered a temperature of 100° F far above the normal 60° F. Then the radio signals faded, and finally stopped. Breakup had begun, and the projected "footprint" of Skylab's debris seemed to be safely in the Indian Ocean. Houston's perspiring controllers relaxed. The monitoring team gave Johnson Space Center Director Christopher Kraft a Skylab SPLAT DOWN (instead of splashdown) T shirt For a time, Skylab still refused...
...remained untarnished, the radiance of his image has dimmed in West Germany. It faded even further last week with the announcement that Brandt, 65, and his Norwegian-born second wife, Rut, 58, were "taking legal steps to dissolve their marriage by mutual consent." Straitlaced Germans were saddened by the breakup of Brandt's 30-year marriage, but not terribly surprised. Rut had stood at her husband's side through a host of personal and political crises, including several of his transient flings with other women. In an interview last week with the magazine Stern, she attributed the impending...