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World War II began last week at 5:20 a. m. (Polish time) Friday, September 1, when a German bombing plane dropped a projectile on Puck, fishing village and air base in the armpit of the Hel Peninsula. At 5:45 a. m. the German training ship Schleswig-Holstein lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs 1939: Roosevelt Learns of the Outbreak of WWII | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

For their part, the Soviets at one point assembled a dozen fishing and naval auxiliary vessels and apparently tried a concerted sweep of the ocean floor in the search area, using some kind of trawling gear. They were not observed to bring up anything. Nonetheless, the Soviets told Japan that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Race for the Black Box | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the Administration could be heartened by the results of some investigative reporting in Nicaragua. Newsmen visiting an island near a small fishing village on the northwestern Zamora coast, just 40 miles from the Salvadoran border, uncovered the remains of what appears to have been a depot for smuggling arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Lucky Catch | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

The wind and temperature shifts, transmitted through the atmosphere and interconnected oceans, disrupted global weather; some scientists believe that is contributing to the unseasonably hot summer east of the Rocky Mountains. Storm centers moved to new paths in mid-Pacific, causing unusual storms in Hawaii and the worst recorded hurricane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Adios, Maybe, to El Ni | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

Meteorologists still do not understand why El Niño arrives in cycles, causing extreme heatings of ocean temperatures every four or five years. The El Niño of 1972, though less severe than the present one, nevertheless crippled the South American fishing industry. Although few of these episodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Adios, Maybe, to El Ni | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

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