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Last month the San Joaquin River, flush with mountain runoff, broke through a levee near Vernalis in Northern California and washed out 10 sq. mi. of prime farmland. Farther upstream, in central California's Kings County, rains had already dunked 70,000 acres in floodwater; the runoff now threatens an additional 20,000 acres. "We're down here like a bathtub without a drain," fretted Farmer Don Gilkey, who had 4,000 of his 10,000 acres drowned...
...international airport being built with Cuban aid. The island's government has been headed by Prime Minister Maurice Bishop since the repressive regime of Sir Eric Gairy was overthrown in 1979. To assess the threat, TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter traveled to the 133-sq.-mi. island. His report...
...each city. One of the two everywhere will be a telephone company. A big winner will be American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which pioneered in development of the new technology. AT&T is already serving 2,000 mobile-phone customers with a network covering some 2,100 sq. mi. in a pilot project in Chicago, where regular cellular service will begin in November. The company has been granted licenses to build systems in six other cities: Boston, Buffalo, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Pittsburgh...
Didion's timing is not bad either. Salvador, first published in the New York Review of Books, goes hardback and national just as full attention is turning again to the nation of only 8,260 sq. mi. The book is Didion's report on two weeks spent in El Salvador during 1982. Saul Bellow's To Jerusalem and Back comes to mind. Didion listens to experts on la situatión, and one is reminded of Bellow's comment after a similar experience in the Middle East: "Such intelligent discussion hasn't always been wrong...
...last July, was apparently aimed at the Iraqi city of Al Amarah. Seizure of the town would enable Iran to intercept supply and troop movements between Baghdad, the capital, and the southern port city of Basra. By midweek, Tehran Radio was claiming that advancing forces had "liberated" 120 sq. mi. of Iranian territory from Iraqi forces since the attack began. An Iraqi military spokesman was contending that the attackers did not gain "one inch of Iraqi territory...