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...Rwanda, a nation in east central Africa, has an area of only 10,000 sq. mi.-and seems to be too small for both elephants and men. Its population, now 4 million, has been increasing rapidly, creating a desperate demand for farm land. As starving tribesmen cultivated new forest acreage, less and less land was left for the local herds of elephants. Result: hungry pachyderms have been raiding the peasants' shambas, often devastating the small subsistence plots in the process -and further reducing the food supply. Rwanda's President, General Juvénal Habyalimana, therefore ordered that...
...water table lowers, the clay covering over the caverns becomes more compact and weaker; sometimes it collapses completely, creating gaping craters known as sinkholes. In one Birmingham industrial park, more than 200 such collapses have occurred in recent years, turning a half-sq.-mi. area into a facsimile of the lunar landscape. No end to the problem appears to be at hand. As the New York Academy's journal, The Sciences, points out, "With man's seemingly unquenchable thirst for Earth's fluids, the land will continue to sink...
Near Los Angeles, a 20-sq.-mi. depression has formed around the Wilmington oilfield after 35 years of exploitation. At the center of the great bowl lies the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, where a 29-ft. decline in the land level has forced the Navy, oil companies and others to build flood-control dikes. Besides twisting railroad tracks, crushing oil-well casings and undermining buildings, the slumping of the ground has also triggered small earthquakes. To jack up the sunken terrain, the city of Long Beach has been forcing water back into the ground...
TUESDAY. At 2:25 a.m., Scowcroft awakened the President to tell him that the Cambodians were towing the Mayaguez toward the mainland. By morning, however, Ford learned that the Cambodians had anchored at Koh Tang, a 3-mi. by 2-mi. jungle islet about 34 miles off the port of Kompong Som (also known as Sihanoukville). That was encouraging news to Ford; rescue would be more difficult if the crew had been taken to the mainland...
...though, was anything but arrogant about his sleek bay colt, Foolish Pleasure. And for good reason: 13 years ago Jolley, then an untested young trainer, came to Churchill Downs with popular favorite Ridan, only to see his horse fade in the stretch and finish third in the 1¼-mi. test for three-year-olds. This year a similar disappointment seemed possible, since Foolish Pleasure was nursing the soles of his front hoofs, which had been torn as he lost the Florida Derby in late March. Right up to Derby day, Jolley and his assistants applied healing turpentine to Foolish...