Word: mi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With his cavalry riding crop, peppery General of Division José Hernández Toledo, 55, taps at a map of the near-unpenetrable 35,000-sq.-mi. area that his troops intend to cover during the next four months. He outlines their objective in bluntest terms: "I will stay here until I have completed the mission my President gave me-rid the mountains of this curse." Adds an aide: "You had better advise New York that Mexican Brown is going to be in short supply from...
...146th member-an act of faith in the Neto government that may be slightly premature. The M.P.L.A. forces and the Cuban troops that helped them to win the civil war after the Portuguese pulled out in 1975 have uncontested control over only about half of the 481,000-sq.-mi. country...
Like angry ants in a vast sandpile, the combatants in a little-known African war of liberation are carrying out search-and-destroy missions in the desolate 100,000-sq.-mi. area once known as the Spanish Sahara. On one side are an estimated 30,000 troops from Morocco and Mauritania, which claimed the land that Spain surrendered sovereignty over last year under strong United Nations pressure. Opposing are the 5,000 guerrillas of the Frente Polisario (for Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro, the two provinces involved). Polisario is fighting to gain...
...Interior Secretary. He was the only man ever considered for the job, said Carter. A flamboyant, maverick Democrat, Andrus has built his political career on the bedrock of espousing conservation causes−a subject that much interests Carter. Andrus gained his experience in a mountainous, 83,550-sq.-mi. state, where nearly two-thirds of the land is under federal control and hence subject to intensive pressures from those who want to exploit its natural resources...
...Democratic machine and concentrated on opposing mining interests who wanted to despoil the White Cloud Peaks−a federal recreation area−n search of molybdenum. After his election, he continued to pound at his preservation theme, winning a long and bitter fight to protect a 2,000-sq.-mi. "primitive area" from lumbering interests. Going against the wishes of local power companies, he opposed construction of a giant coal-fired electrical generator not far from the state capital of Boise. He also demanded that Atomic Energy Commission monitoring of radioactive wastes in the state be double-checked, and pushed...