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...flight was fairly routine until we reached supersonic speed. It then became a new and exhilarating sensation-like having the carpet of the world map magically moved away from you. Just 20 min. after Venice, the heel of the Italian boot had been reached. Moments later, Greece flashed by on the left, and soon Crete and Cyprus were behind us, too. The yellow-brown dusk of the desert began to descend as Captain Norman Todd of British Airways throttled back and glided toward Bahrain, a 231-sq.-mi. island of oil rigs, a refinery and an aluminum smelter...
Extra funds will also be spent on electrical cabinets for the map collection room, Martin said...
Although some slow progress has been made by UNITA forces toward Teixeira de Sousa and Henrique de Carvalho (see map page 17), the military sit uation on the ground remained relative ly unchanged last week. Despite Soviet military aid and the help of 7,500 Cu bans, the M.P.L.A. holds only about a quarter of the country. But State De partment officials concede that Neto's leftist government has a big lead over the other two factions not only in fire power but in organization and experi ence. Assessing the three groups, one U.S. diplomat observes: "The M.P.L.A...
During the year that she studied the school, Schafft asked one class to draw maps of the community, showing their homes, the school, and where their friends lived. Not a single black drew a white child on his map, and only one white drew a black. Concluded Schafft: "For this entire group of children, Greentrees is either black or white...
...underdeveloped countries; and 2) as the source of potential air and naval bases from which Soviet influence could be extended into the Indian and Atlantic oceans. Even if Russia's client rebels lose the civil war in Angola, Moscow still has several toeholds on the continent (see map...