Word: coralled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospect of a military invasion of the Republic of Maldives would seem to be almost as remote as the Indian Ocean archipelago itself. A collection of some 1,200 coral islands that together make up only 115 sq. mi. of land, the country lies several hundred miles southwest of India and Sri Lanka. Its 195,000 citizens, most of them Sunni Muslims, earn their living largely from fishing and tourism. Possession of guns is outlawed, except for the fewer than 2,000 lightly armed members of the National Security Service, and violence is virtually unknown. Yet last week the capital...
...high tide they sit barely 2 ft. above the Pacific -- when the ocean is calm -- and are no larger than a pair of king-size beds. Yet the two coral promontories, known as Okinotorishima (Offshore Bird Islands), 1,300 miles southwest of Tokyo, are the southernmost points of Japanese sovereignty. Under international law, they provide the country with an exclusive, fish-rich | economic zone of 163,000 sq. mi., an area larger than Japan itself -- as long as they remain above water...
...Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Fla., described Gilbert as "a great hurricane" that is "in the top 10 percent [historically] as far as intensity, size and destructive potential...
...Republic National Bank of Miami, the loan seemed sound: an $800,000 mortgage on a Coral Gables, Fla., home worth $1.2 million. But the U.S. ! Attorney seized the house in March because it was owned by Thule Holding Corp., a Panamanian company controlled by Indalecio Iglesias, a convicted drug trafficker...
...attempts should not be made. Hence the interest of "Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors," a show of some 180 works that has been on view jointly at the University of Miami's Lowe Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center in Coral Gables, Fla. Curated by Jane Livingston and John Beardsley, the exhibit has already been seen in Houston and Washington; after Miami, through September 1989, it will travel to Santa Fe, Los Angeles and New York City. It is by far the most detailed and serious effort ever made to survey...