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South Korea sees itself as militarily strong, but facing an extreme hazard. Every Korean leader seems to have a map in his mind and a geographic lecture on his lips: the country is the tip of a small peninsula at the edge of the Asian continent. It faces not only the intransigent opposition of North Korea on its only border, but beyond that the land mass of both China and Soviet Russia. At its back and sides, South Koreans repeatedly point out, there is only...
Nonetheless, every politician capable of reading a map knew that the redistricting would inevitably be bloody. Given the thankless task of drawing new electoral districts. Majority Whip George Keverian realized that he could not possibly please all 194 fellow Democrats in the house, at least 53 of whom were bound to lose their jobs in the November 1978 election. For example, two liberal Boston representatives, who are longtime friends, will be pitted against each other in Boston's new Back Bay-Beacon Hill district: Elaine Noble, 33, the first avowed lesbian in a state assembly, and Barney Frank...
...Sunday-style continental meal, he assigned to Ann B. Spence, assistant dean of the College, the lonely task of picking out the four Houses. Spence drew "spheres of proximity" around four groups of three Houses, forming clusters of Houses like defense positions on a military map, with radii small enough so that no student would have to trudge more than an "acceptable" distance to breakfast. Spence in turn presented her "spheres of proximity" to Frank J. Weissbecker, director of Food Services, who picked a House form each group, with the twin goals of saving money and "minimizing the re-location...
...campus, in the Soviets' latest enterprise, is the Horn of Africa, the stretch of real estate that is strategically placed along the Red Sea routes vital to Arab oil trade (see map). There the Soviets are simultaneously cultivating a new interest-Ethiopia-while trying to remain on good terms with an old friend -Somalia. Since the two African countries dislike one another intensely, the Soviet effort is delicate work...
...they are regarded to be at least 33.75 billion bbl.-and the figure is climbing. Proven oil reserves in Mexico and the waters off its coast have been revised from 7 billion bbl. to about 11 billion bbl. Still, the established fields remain the citadels of proven resources (see map): the Middle East (with 368 billion bbl.), followed by the Soviet Union (78 billion bbl.), Africa (61 billion bbl.) and the U.S. (31 billion bbl.). The CIA'S forecast of shortages assumed that the Soviet Union, now an oil exporter, and its client states in Eastern Europe would become...