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...marina is part of Marathon, halfway between Key Largo and Key West. The town's charms are not readily apparent to a traveler, who usually sees only a six-mile treeless stretch of U.S. Highway 1, where bars and cheap shopping malls are chaotically assembled under the glaring sun, lined up with occasional fading signs offering time-share condo developments. It is hard to earn a living legally in the Florida Keys, and the local residents hold two firm contradictory beliefs: 1) zoning and planning are outrageous interferences with free enterprise, and 2) mentioning aloud the less than salubrious effects...
...gentrification of Boot Key Marina has begun. At the end of March the Pluhars sold it to a man named John Theurer. Rumor swept through Marathon that the selling price was over $2 million. Nobody knew much about the buyer. Up and down Highway 1, in the banks and the bars and the early-morning breakfast places, people were telling one another that he was part of the Theurer family that had made its money in truck- trailer manufacturing. "To be fair, no one knows what he is going to do with the marina," said a longtime resident, sitting...
...overland link between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, the Salang Highway is the primary resupply artery for the 115,000 Soviet troops battling mujahedin resistance fighters in Afghanistan. Three and a half years ago, hundreds of Soviet soldiers were said to have perished inside the highway's 1.7-mile-long tunnel through the Hindu Kush mountains, following a collision of vehicles in a military convoy. Last week Western diplomatic sources reported that the same area was the scene of a bloody new calamity for Soviet and Afghanistan government forces...
Before long the procession became a protest march, and the protest a confrontation. As up to 4,000 demonstrators strode along the highway between Langa and the white town of Uitenhage, their path was blocked by 19 policemen. Through a loudspeaker, the young lieutenant in charge of the patrol, Johannes Fourie, told the protesters to go home. They continued to push forward. A policeman fired a warning shot at the feet of the group's leaders. Still they advanced. With that, Fourie ordered the police to open fire on the marchers. At least 19 blacks were killed...
...Iranian offensive, which had been expected for months, was remarkably successful in its first two days. The assault troops crossed the marshes and set up positions on the banks of the Tigris; a few units even crossed the river on pontoon bridges to the vicinity of the highway between Baghdad and Basra, Iraq's second city. When the Iraqis eventually counterattacked with heavy concentrations of armor and artillery, the Iranians dug in and fought back. That they had put up a valiant struggle was demonstrated by the burned- out hulks of Iraqi tanks and armored personnel carriers littering the battlefield...