Word: lande
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...around Sarajevo last Wednesday night--thus meeting a NATO deadline and staving off renewed air strikes--the Croats and Muslims had recaptured nearly 1,500 sq. mi. of disputed real estate and whittled the portion of Bosnia controlled by the Serbs from about 65% to just under 50%. That land grab initially provoked fears that a possible peace agreement was in danger of being wrecked. But by week's end, the Croat-Muslim federation had put the brakes on its offensive, and suddenly the Clinton Administration appeared tantalizingly close to a diplomatic triumph that could redeem its reputation both...
Masahide Ota, Okinawa's Governor, flew to Tokyo to lodge a protest with U.S. Ambassador Walter Mondale and the Japanese government. Ota and most other Okinawans want the island's 40 American facilities, which occupy 20% of its land, to be moved elsewhere. Now that the Russian threat to Japan has receded, many Okinawans have lost patience with daily live-fire exercises, roaring F-15 jets and rowdy American service members. Polls show that as many as 80% of the islanders want the bases either closed or greatly reduced in size. "The people," says Ota, "are fed up with...
...Lamar's plane today got diverted and was forced to land in Boston at Logan. So I had to race to Logan to pick him up then I had to quickly reschedule two radio appearances, meetings with the mayor and the police chief," Mayberry said...
PUCC would win a majority of the council's seats it all of its candidates earned election to the council. Its leaders said they're hoping to land more than 30 members on the council, which would give it a solid voting bloc to pursue its agenda...
Thank you for your chilling depiction of environmental disaster in Siberia. As a student in Magadan, Siberia, I witnessed leaky oil refineries, toxic-waste dumps at the headwaters of rivers, scrapyards of twisted metal and swaths of clear-cut land: grim testimony to the failure of the Soviet system to care for Siberia's fragile ecosystem. Industrial society seems to lead inexorably to devastation of the earth's northern lands. On America's own arctic frontier, the U.S. Congress stands poised to allow oil exploration of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, something a soon-to-be-released Interior...