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...smells of fresh pasteles (pastry) and café cubano waft from a hundred neighborhood coffee stands. Youngsters are everywhere, downing batidos (exotic fruit milkshakes) at open-air counters or putting away Grandes Macs at the McDonald's eatery on Flagler Street. This is Little Havana, a 5-sq.-mi. Cuban enclave in the middle of Miami...
...ANGELES. No one is sure what is happening in Los Angeles schools this fall, least of all the local board of education. After working on desegregation plans since 1963, the city was all set to begin a vast program for busing 60,000 students across the sprawling 710-sq.-mi. district. Two weeks ago, a court of appeals suddenly judged that the plan needed more work and scrapped it. Antibusing parents were elated, but then the state supreme court overruled the earlier decision. It now appears that the program, involving 800 additional buses, will go into effect this week...
Perhaps the most unusual network is Arizona's. Covering all 114,000 sq. mi. of the state, it relies on airplanes, helicopters and ambulances to ferry patients, some of them rural Indians, to perinatal centers. Nearly 1,200 women have been transported in the last 2½ years, and more than 60% of the babies born needed intensive care...
...thing about all this controversy. It's made a lot of people start to think a lot more seriously about us," So says J.J.J. Wilken, the town clerk and unofficial historian of the 374-sq.-mi. territory of Walvis Bay. Until international attention focused on independence for Namibia, few people had much reason to think at all about this spectacular but isolated deep-water port on the continent's barren southwestern coastline. Apart from the harbor and its railroad connections, Walvis Bay has little to recommend even to its inhabitants: 10,000 whites of mixed British, Dutch...
...sides worked out a compromise. By 1983 Britain will withdraw what has become an anachronistic and embarrassing colonial presence in the steamy 2,226-sq.-mi. sultanate of 190,000 people on the north coast of Borneo (see map). Meanwhile, British civil servants will continue to handle much of the sultanate's affairs, as they have since 1888, when the tiny backwater country, which a passing naval captain had chanced on 40 years earlier, formally became a British protectorate. In addition, London agreed to keep a battalion of tough Gurkha soldiers in Brunei (pronounced Brew-nigh) until the sultanate...