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...many ways it is. Angkor Wat, a Hindu shrine dedicated to the god Vishnu, is one of hundreds of stone structures built a thousand years ago over a 200- sq.-mi. area. Although largely abandoned for five centuries, more than 270 of the temples have survived intact. But little is known about the society that created one of the architectural wonders of the world...
...real problem, Navy insiders grumbled, was bad judgment at the top. Said an officer: "Initially there was no high priority for this assignment. We were told to look for the ship, no more." Meanwhile the vessels and aircraft best equipped for spotting the freighter in the 800,000- sq.-mi. area, the aircraft carrier America battle group, were carrying out exercises hundreds of miles away...
...assault represents an alarming escalation in the hostilities that are rapidly pushing Christian Armenia and Muslim Azerbaijan toward all-out war. Over the past four years the two republics have pressed their territorial claims to Nagorno-Karabakh, a 1,700-sq.-mi. piece of turf located within Azerbaijan's boundaries but home mainly to Armenians. Until the breakup of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan held the upper hand, owing to military support from units of the now disintegrating Seventh Army. The embattled Armenians enjoyed sympathy from many of Moscow's liberals and democrats, who disliked the collusion between Azerbaijan and Kremlin...
...Iraq have come tantalizingly close to something like their centuries-old dream: a state of their own. Sheltering behind a security guarantee from the U.S.-led coalition, cut off from the south by a military blockade, the long-suffering Kurds have taken control of a 15,000-sq.-mi. slice of the country...
...absence of a center of action -- Albertville, nominal host of the Games, is a Bovaryville with a population smaller than that of Rockefeller Center in New York City -- tended to diffuse the sense of panic and excitement, as did the cold reality of 10 sites scattered across 620 sq. mi. of mountainside. These genuinely did seem the small-town Games, the Games of one-lane roads and gyms turned into press centers. True, the main street of Albertville had become a huge window display for such arcana as smiling M&M's on skis, a version of the Olympic mascot...