Word: mi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such are the Falkland Islands, the rainswept archipelago about 300 miles east of the Strait of Magellan, which is perhaps the most bizarre scene for an armed conflict since the Orcs attacked J.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. The two main islands, East Falkland (2,550 sq. mi.) and West Falkland (1,750 sq. mi.), surrounded by a shoal of 200 islets, cover an area about the size of Connecticut.* The prevailing west winds are so fierce that the Falklands have no trees, and, rumors of offshore oil notwithstanding, there are virtually no natural resources except grass. There are also...
...this 33-sq.-mi. secondary ring of destruction, almost everyone is a casualty. Across the Detroit River in Windsor, Canadians strolling the promenade are severely burned and then pounded by fragments from Detroit's Renaissance Center, hurled across the river by 160-m.p.h. winds...
...disorder may be great. Hospitals are intact, with doctors on duty and painkillers in stock. But from all over the city, 600,000 injured are begging or simply seizing the tiny supply of medical aid. Hysteria spreads as drivers crowd all three major highways leading from the 150 sq. mi. of ruins...
...contingent of the roughly 2,600-member Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) that will police a 300-mile-long zone between Egypt and Israel starting April 25. On that date, Israel will fulfill a key provision of the Camp David peace agreements by returning the remaining 7,490 sq. mi. of the Sinai that it has occupied since 1967. Even as troubles flared in the West Bank, and as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak continued to dodge an invitation from Prime Minister Menachem Begin to visit Israel (with a mandatory stop in Jerusalem, which Mubarak wants to avoid), the formal peace...
...United Grain Co., Inc., accelerated its drive into the U.S. market in 1978, buying eight grain elevators in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Tennessee for $10.5 million from financially ailing Cook Industries. Mitsui beat out seven competitors by agreeing to the deal in just 48 hours. A year later Mi-tsui's archrival, Mitsubishi's Agrex Inc., boosted its own U.S. grain-trade investment by buying out Koppel Inc., the company's American partner, thereby becoming sole owner of a giant export elevator in Long Beach, Calif., along with elevators in Salina, Kans., and Enola, Neb. Other Japanese...