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...Aboard were 2,000 more Marines, who would be available for duty onshore if necessary. Those vessels, which include the nuclear-powered carrier Eisenhower, will be joined some time this week by the battleship New Jersey, whose 16-in. guns could flatten unfriendly artillery positions up to 23 miles inland...
Alicia, however, was not yet spent. By Thursday morning the storm had rolled 45 miles inland to Houston. Over the past ten years, the city's skyline has been transformed by glass-sheathed showpieces, like the S-shaped Allied Bank building. With rapid-fire pops, wind and flying debris punched out scores of windows in these architectural landmarks. "I stood upstairs in my office this morning and watched large sheets of plate glass coming down from 30 stories high," said Civil Defense Administrator Jonell Toole...
...feet into the air and bathing the area in an eerie orangish glow. Strong westerly winds blew a 75-mile-long cloud of choking smog toward shore, depositing thick black goo on houses and cars and coating newly shorn sheep with an oily film. Up to 25 miles inland, farmers reported an "oily rain" falling on their crops...
...border strife has left some 100,000 Chinese in the Guangxi region homeless and forced the government to open refugee camps further inland. Many villagers have not been able to return to their homes. Pingmeng's 20-bed hospital, which was abandoned after the 1979 war, still bears the scars of the fighting. Other buildings have been damaged by Vietnamese mortar rounds. On a single day last April, Chinese officials claim, 120 shells fired from across the border landed in Pingmeng. Townspeople reported that a month ago 13 rounds of Vietnamese rifle fire struck the town. Many fled...
...biggest client is Inland Storage Distribution Center, a subsidiary of Beatrice Foods. The company's underground storage space amounts to a staggering 23 million cu. ft., enough to keep the food to supply a meal to every man, woman and child in America, all within 26 miles of the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states. Inland President Warren Lewis whimsically calls the facility the "best little warehouse in Kansas...