Word: mi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...region's political map seems almost giddily drawn to avoid grappling with any such problems. Community boundaries dart haphazardly: they were often drawn by developers who wanted to run their towns as well as build them. The 2,042-sq.-mi. area of Dade County, for example, is now governed by 27 separate and often rival municipal governments. Dade County attempted to draw some order out of its political chaos in 1959 by combining such common services as transportation and sewer systems. But the 27 towns still raise their own taxes, pass their own zoning ordinances and run their...
...decade. Smuggling dope into the region is about as difficult as buying a souvenir in Miami Beach. "They land it in everything but a bathtub," marvels Patrolman Doug Morris of the Dade County public safety marine patrol, whose dozen men and six boats help patrol the 550 sq. mi. of county waterways. "Hell...
...antiquated gray submarine was towed part of the way down the channel it had navigated on its own ten days before. Finally it cast off. Then, joining the flotilla of naval vessels hovering anxiously beyond the twelve-nautical-mi. limit, Soviet "Whiskey"-class submarine No. 137 headed for its home base at Baltiysk, near the port of Kaliningrad. So ended, peacefully enough, the diplomatic uproar that began when Sweden discovered the sub on a reef in a restricted military zone only nine miles from Karlskrona, an ultrasensitive naval base on the Baltic Sea. The incursion of the sub, said Prime...
...million worth of military equipment to a jittery President Gaafar Nimeiri. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in Pakistan, where she urged more Western weapons sales to protect that country from a possible attack by Soviet forces occupying Afghanistan. Then she flew in one of Pakistan's Soviet Mi-8 helicopters to the Khyber Pass, where she talked to an Afghan border guard sporting, of course...
...members of the Islamic Guards quickly went after the protesters. But the Guards were trapped by leftist Mujahedin-e Khalq guerrillas who had positioned themselves on rooftops along the streets. The government conceded that 36 Islamic Guards were killed in the ensuing battle, which raged over a 6-sq.-mi. area for more than seven hours...