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...exports of 1.6 million bbl. a day. If indeed Iraq had destroyed the terminal, it would have been a turning point in the five-year-old gulf war. By late last week, however, oil-industry experts concluded that although Iraqi jets had managed to penetrate the heavily defended southeastern, landward side of the complex known as "T terminal," the strike would not seriously disrupt the oil exports on which Iran's economy relies. Correspondent John Borrell recently spent nine days in Iran and came away with, among other impressions, the belief that Iran, under the rule...
Southern California can be seen as a huge fire trap. If it were a building, it would fail inspection. Every year for five months virtually no rain falls. And every year from mid-September to November the weather system overhead jerks into reverse -- instead of blowing from the Pacific landward, it blows westward, from Utah to the sea. The winds superheat in the Mojave Desert. Then, in hundreds of canyons leading coastward from the mountains, they can accelerate up to 75 m.p.h. If California is lucky, the Santa Anas, as they are called, merely annoy, ushering in what author Joan...
...wave after wave rolls landward from the ocean, breaks and fades away sighing down the shingle of the beach, so the generations of men follow one another, sometimes quietly, sometimes after a storm, with noisy turbulence," the conservative president said...
Literary Material. It was on Más-a-Tierra (Landward), largest (58 square miles) of the Juan Fernández Islands, that a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk was put ashore in 1704 after a row with his captain. There he lived in rugged solitude for four years. When he got back to England, Selkirk published a personal journal of his adventures, and from his account Daniel Defoe wrote The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe...
...fought the battles, Salerno was hell. At some points the Germans let the first forces come smoothly ashore and cluster on the white beaches, then blanketed them with artillery fire from the near hills. At others, naval landing craft bore the troops landward in the face of continuous fire. Everywhere the men of the Fifth Army had to establish themselves on the beaches, make their first moves inland amid shells, bombs, confusion, fear...