Word: landing
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Curiously, the Senator wrongly stated last week that the heavy SS-18 missiles are the chief threat to the American Minuteman force. The U.S. land-based missiles actually are most endangered by the Soviets' more accurate SS-19s, which are smaller missiles that have six warheads apiece (to the SS-18's ten). The Soviets have deployed 200 SS-19s and are expected eventually to have 500 of them...
...boat people, all that lies in the distant future. The most they can expect now is a sort of least common denominator of human life: a stretch of sand on which to beach a leaky boat, and the prospect, however remote, of a new life in an alien land...
Somoza was also losing on the diplomatic front. In Washington, the Organization of American States (OAS) rejected a U.S. proposal for an inter-American peace-keeping force to be dispatched to the strife-torn land. Nonetheless, in a 17-to-2 vote from which the military governments in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Chile and Uruguay abstained, the OAS approved a resolution calling for "the immediate and definitive replacement" of Somoza's regime. The resolution cleared the way for the rebel junta to gather more support from anti-Somoza forces both inside and outside the country...
...Park issued a joint communiqué that, for the first time, invited North Korea to a tripartite meeting. The invitation is designed to cancel out the propaganda advantage that Pyongyang had gained with its recent-and obviously hollow-overtures to Seoul on talks aimed at reunifying the long-divided land. The long-term objective of the proposal appears to be to stabilize the volatile military situation...
Idaho, however, with 26.65 millionaires per 1,000 population, has the highest per capita ratio of any state, largely because of the soaring price of land on its many large farms. Maine, a longtime retreat of the rich, is second with 7.72 millionaires per 1,000, while North Dakota, with its sprawling farms and ranches, is third with 6.9. The states with the lowest concentrations of seven-figure citizens: Arkansas, with .34 millionaires per 1,000, and Wyoming, where the ratio is just .19. Nonetheless, to reverse Scott Fitzgerald's famous dictum, just about everywhere the rich are becoming...