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...Americas. The resulting pressure gap reduced the strength of the Pacific trade winds, which normally blow warm surface waters westward, away from the Americas. As air-pressure levels seesawed across the Pacific, the trade winds not only weakened but actually began to blow in reverse, and warm waters sloshed eastward toward the Americas. In some areas of the Pacific last December, the surface temperature rose by 7°, to 85°F. Last May the readings were more than 11°F above normal, the largest recorded increase in 100 years...
Having poked the eyes of Texas, the destructive Alicia now has a chance to do a good turn or two. Not only is she bringing rain to the dry fields of the Midwest, she is also edging the brutish high-pressure system eastward. That could cause a lot of raised temperatures this week on the East Coast, but it might salvage some of the harvest in the Midwest and allow Southern California and Nevada to dry out. For a nation coping with a most cantankerous and confounding summer, such a shift would be welcome indeed...
...Israeli military line will probably run eastward from the mouth of the Awali River, 17 miles south of Beirut, then fishhook north into the Bekaa Valley (see map). No withdrawal will take place on the eastern front, where Israeli troops face the Syrians. But by moving away from the Beirut suburbs and parts of the Chouf Mountains southeast of the city, the Israelis hope to avoid being trapped in any crossfire between the Lebanese Christian and Druze militias...
...work is now nearly finished, and the result is a 793-mile stretch of natural gas pipeline that extends eastward from Whitney Canyon, Wyo., to a terminal in Beatrice, Neb. There the pipeline will become a part of existing gas lines leading to the population and industrial centers of the East, delivering 350 million cu. ft. of fuel per day to customers by Oct. 15. Named Trailblazer, because it is the first major pipeline to transport gas from the Rocky Mountain Overthrust Belt in western Wyoming directly to the Midwest, the $1.4 billion, 36-in. line is the work...
...bury and hide our pipe with about the same care the Egyptians took in burying their pharaohs." Now the only thing the pipeline companies have to worry about is whether consumers can be counted on to buy up the prodigious amounts of fuel soon to be flowing silently eastward below ground. -By Guy D. Garcia. Reported by Lee Griggs/Omaha