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...office towers of the business district to the wretched squatter camps near Aberdeen, the consuming topic of conversation nowadays is what exactly will happen to Hong Kong before July 1, 1997. That is the date when more than 90% of Hong Kong's land area, the 373-sq.-mi. New Territories, will revert to China under the terms of the 99-year lease that imperial Britain wrested from the tottering Qing Dynasty in 1898. Although earlier treaties gave Britain the remaining 34 sq. mi. in perpetuity, that area depends on the New Territories for food and water and cannot...
...Israel. Sadat was incensed. They began arguing about who had conquered whom, and I had to intercede to say that neither was claiming that the other represented a defeated nation. Sadat accused Begin of being interested primarily in the retention of occupied land. Begin retorted that 24,000 sq. mi. of territory were involved, that he was offering to return more than 90% of it to Egypt now, and merely postponing the sovereignty question on the other 2,340 sq. mi.?a figure that, I assumed at the time, was the area of the West Bank and Gaza...
...Senate seats go, the ones in Montana come fairly cheap. Despite its huge size (147,138 sq. mi.), the state has only 413,000 registered voters, and a candidate's campaign can be financed for well under a million dollars. Yet money looms as the big issue in Republican Challenger Larry Williams' attempt to unseat Democratic Incumbent John Melcher...
...without even bothering to hire away another company's employees. They simply use the prospect of a job to pump information from eager applicants during interviews. That technique has long been in wide use among the 1,300 or so high-tech firms packed together in 250-sq.-mi. Silicon Valley. William H. Bell, a convicted spy who sold military secrets to a Polish agent, described the approach to a congressional committee in May. Said he: "Within the avionics industry, it is a common practice for all companies to obtain secrets of their competitors by the same techniques that...
...occasion was the opening of nearly 3,000 sq. mi. of the Oklahoma Territory to settlement. For decades, the U.S. Government had been content to use the land, which it had acquired in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, as a resettlement ground for displaced Indians. But after the Civil War, the white settlers began demanding parts of the territory. Cattlemen wanted to drive their herds to market along the Chisholm and Shawnee trails; America's new immigrants wanted land for farms. Ignoring Government restrictions, settlers known as boomers began to squat on lands in the territory...