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...foot of spectacular Tmolus mountain, birthplace of the wine god Bacchus. Sardis once served as the capital of the great Lydian Fmpire. Surrounded by the abundant agricultural and grazing land which was the heartland of Lydia. Sardis symbolized luxury, sophistication, and sumptuous wealth...
...have a military and security influence over the territory. The section of Israel between the pre- 1967 boundaries and the Mediterranean is only eight to 13 miles wide, and contains 67 percent of the country's population and 80 percent of its industry. The strategic vulnerability of this heartland until the Six Day War put Israel in a completely untenable position--Arab armored columns and artillery possessed the ability to cut Israel in half, to destroy its major residential and industrial centers, and to disrupt its lines of communication and transportation. This ability has grown immensely, in terms of military...
Among the surprise entries on the most-improved list are several states in the nation's recession-racked industrial heartland. West Virginia, still leading the U.S. in joblessness with an unemployment rate of 15.1%, faced a projected fiscal 1983 deficit of $81.4 million as recently as last January. But thanks to the unflagging efforts of Democratic Governor John D. Rockefeller IV to ram through a $90 million package of spending cuts, the state managed to end the year with a small surplus of $12.4 million...
...England states; Bell Atlantic of Philadelphia will serve New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia; BellSouth of Atlanta will have customers in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Kentucky, Louisi ana, Mississippi and Tennessee; Ameritech of Chicago will reach the heartland states of Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin; Southwestern Bell of St. Louis will join Arkansas, Kansas, Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma; U S West of Denver will cover the largest geographical area, 14 states in the Midwest, Rocky Mountains and Northwest; and Pacific Telesis of San Francisco will oversee California and Nevada...
...city tabloids of Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, 52, which cover their turf from Boston to Fleet Street, rarely stray from lurid roots: NUDE PRINCIPAL DEAD IN MOTEL (San Antonio Express); HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR (New York Post). Last week Murdoch took his headline high jinks to the U.S. heartland. He bought the troubled Chicago Sun-Times, the nation's eighth largest urban daily, for $90 million in cash...