Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvest 1977 has been a time of paradox for American farmers: a season of too much and too little. In the Northwest and parts of the Midwest and central California, many grain growers were staggering under the effects of the worst drought in decades (see map page 18). Yet in most of the rich cornfields of the Central U.S. and the sweeping grain belt of the Great Plains, the rain came when it was needed. The land responded generously-and now Jimmy Carter's Administration is grappling with the problem of what to do with the immense bounty...
...drilling might start as soon as year's end. The decision presumably will also encourage oil companies to bid on leases scheduled for sale early next year on two other geologically promising areas of the outer continental shelf: Georges Bank off Massachusetts and the Southeast Georgia Embayment (see map...
...military to escape from the coal mines of his youth. Equating discipline with love, the father trains his young son to become an artillery gunner; when he takes William to visit his mother's grave, he carts along a compass so that they can make a field map of the cemetery. This utilitarian education takes: William wins a scholarship to the Military College of Science, receives a wartime-accelerated commission in the artillery, and behaves with bravery before and during the British retreat to Dunkirk...
Since the Six-Day War, Israel has established 90 settlements in the occupied territories, including nine communities on the outskirts of Jerusalem, 36 on the West Bank (see map), 25 on the Golan Heights and 20 in Sinai and the Gaza
...battles began along the sandy Libyan-Egyptian border, 390 miles west of Cairo. In his telecast, Sadat insisted that Gaddafi-"that very strange person"-had ordered his forces to make border raids near Sallum (see map). In one such incursion, the Egyptian President said, the Libyans had taken 14 prisoners. "He felt proud of himself," Sadat said, "but he was playing with fire." The Libyans answered that it was the Egyptians who had been raiding across the border. Whatever the rights and wrongs, the Egyptians apparently reinforced their border forces last week and waited to strike, in order to teach...