Word: mi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late November 1989, American intelligence reported that the Soviet freighter Vladimir Ilyich, bound for Nicaragua, had loaded a cargo of four Mi- 17 Hip helicopters at Port Leningrad. The 38 Hips previously shipped to the Sandinistas had been used to devastating effect in the war against the contra rebels. It now looked as if Managua would get more. In neighboring El Salvador, meanwhile, Marxist guerrillas had launched their strongest offensive in years, managing to trap twelve American Green Berets in a luxury hotel. President Bush responded by dispatching a contingent of Delta Force commandos. U.S. intervention seemed a distinct possibility...
Expo planners envision a vast, ultramodern "workshop of ideas" spread out over the entire 7,090-sq.-mi. Veneto region. The "ideas network" would be centered in the 80-acre Arsenale, the old shipbuilding yards of the Venetian navy. Along the edge of the lagoon, from the polluted petrochemical shores of Marghera to Marco Polo airport, a "Riviera of culture and technology" would be tied together by an aboveground metro. Planners promise that the construction would create 5,000 jobs, as well as a sophisticated electronics- and-communicati ons system to serve the city in the next century...
...Fish and Wildlife Service that Malathion-base spray could put the 3-in.-long nocturnal rodent at risk (and the state in violation of the Federal Endangered Species Act), officials agreed to avoid aerial spraying of the area where the kangaroo rat is found, a 5-sq.-mi. region of Riverside County 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles. While they bear no malice toward the rats, anti-sprayers are astounded by the decision. The government, said Adelaide Nimitz, president of Families Opposed to Chemical Urban Spraying, would rather "protect the rats and spray people...
...hundreds of species of fish. But by the mid-1980s, fishermen, shell collectors, tourists, construction and pollution were endangering the reef's fragile ecosystem. Today, thanks to a two-year-long campaign headed by Janet Patricia Gibson, 37, a Belizean botanist and zoologist, 13 sq. km (5 sq. mi.) of the reef have been set aside as the Hol Chan (Mayan for little channel) Marine Reserve...
Bill Kastner of the U.S. Geological Survey office in Denver monitors the monstrous Ogallala Aquifer, that famous underground sponge that reaches from South Dakota to the high plains of Texas, touches eight states and embraces 174,000 sq. mi. In some places the water level has fallen 200 ft., leaving the balance between use and recharge from rainfall in precarious condition. Given a little hot dry weather and good farm prices that encourage increased grain planting, the irrigation pumps will begin to whir, in all likelihood sucking up more water than will be replaced...