Word: mapped
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Ozal calls for an atlas and opens it to a map of the region. "Look where we are and what is going on around us," he says. As he traces the boundary of his country's giant neighbor to the north, Ozal reaches with his other hand into his pocket and pulls out a string of jet-black worry beads...
...ominous silence after distress calls from Amelia Earhart's twin-engine Lockheed 10-E Electra in the Pacific in 1937 touched off one of aviation's greatest mysteries. Last week the FBI confirmed that a likely clue to her last landing site had been found. It was an aluminum map case recovered by a group of aircraft archaeologists on Nikumaroro, an atoll 420 miles southeast of Howland Island, her destination...
Such protests came to a head last week, when 60,000 farmers wearing broad- brimmed bush hats converged on Melbourne to dramatize their hardships. Coming from specks on the map like Yackandandah and Koo-wee-rup, they marched along leading sheepdogs or, in two cases, mounted on camels. AUSTRALIA FOR SHEEP, NOT POLITICAL GOATS proclaimed one placard. Rally leader Danny Johnson from Warracknabeal drew cheers when he shouted, "The heart has been ripped out of country Australia by high interest rates and excessive government taxes...
...sides? That's what Sweden's Parliament asked itself last week when it voted 287 to 40 to apply for membership in the European Community, departing from a national tradition of sitting on the geopolitical fence. "The collapse of the communist dictatorships in Eastern Europe has changed the military map," says Lotta Forsman, an E.C. expert at the Foreign Ministry, "and consequently the basis for Sweden's neutrality...
...Afrikaners who do not share De Klerk's vision of a multiracial society living in harmony, the idea of an all-white ministate is gaining in appeal. The Orange Workers published a detailed map proposing a territory roughly covering the former Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State. Earlier, Carel Boshoff, Verwoerd's brother-in-law, proposed setting up a homeland called Orandee in the desolate northern Cape Province...