Word: mi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...associated with the publication are collecting medical supplies, uniforms and the like but insists they do not deal in arms. The magazine has, however, recruited specialists to teach the contras about weaponry and maintenance. One of its teams has been advising the rebels on how to counter Soviet-built Mi-24 Hind helicopter gunships that the Sandinistas are expected to deploy soon...
...large comet might have similar consequences. Los Alamos Weapons Experts Stirling Colgate and Albert Petschek computed that a comet six miles in diameter hitting the earth would have an effect 100,000 to 1 million times as great as a large nuclear explosion, and would blow a 100-sq.-mi. hole in the atmosphere...
...every 16 bbl. of aircraft fuel used by Allied forces in World War II, Exxon's Lago refinery, once the largest in the world, will shut down this week. The closing marks the end of an era in the world oil industry and spells trouble for the 70-sq.-mi. Caribbean island. The refinery has provided Aruba with more than half its annual income for better than two generations. Writes the Curacao-based Antillen Review: "The chilling truth, that a total economic collapse might well be the country's fate within two years, has at last dawned upon a wide...
...isolation that allowed the counterrevolution to utilize them," the evacuation could bring about an escalation of the war. Once the farmers are safely out of the way, the Nicaraguan military will have created a free-fire zone in which it can use some of the dozen or so Mi-24 "Hind" helicopters it has received from the Soviet Union. The gunships, equipped with rockets and fast-firing guns, wield devastating firepower. Said Orlando Osario, a refugee evacuated with his family to the town of Jinotega, some 100 miles north of Managua: "I figured it was better to get out alive...
Since 1978, however, China has been waging an equally fierce campaign to save its unique wildlife. Some 260 new nature reserves, covering 60,000 sq. mi., have been established. The government is taking a strong-arm approach to conservation: two fishermen were jailed recently for killing three endangered river dolphins, and two factory workers were fined for shooting one of China's twelve known ibis. Says Archibald, "I'm so impressed by what the Chinese have done. Before 1979 they didn't even know where the birds were...