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...players are willing to work, Lockerpromises that Harvard will return to the nationalcollegiate scene soon, a place it occupied for anumber of years in the mid-1980s...
...players are willing to work, Lockerpromises that Harvard will return to the nationalcollegiate scene soon, a place it occupied for anumber of years in the mid-1980s...
...hydrocarbons had largely degraded just four months after the war was over. Even more startling: parts of the gulf were actually cleaner after the war than before. Oysters caught off the coast of Bahrain, about halfway down the gulf, had lower levels of petroleum contamination than in the mid-1980s. Offshore sediments showed the same pattern. The probable explanation: sharply reduced tanker traffic more than made up for the effects of the war-related spills...
...earthquake of magnitude 5.8 or higher.* Since then there have been seven, including the Landers quake, which weighed in at an impressive 7.5. Moreover, this surge in seismicity appears to be occurring on a worrisome schedule. Excavations of old lake-bed sediments by Caltech paleoseismologist Kerry Sieh in the mid-1980s indicate that large earthquakes have roared through this section of the San Andreas at not quite 300-year intervals. The last such quake took place circa 1680. "It's just a gut feeling," ventures Sieh, who is 41 years old, "but I think I'll witness a great earthquake...
...particularly keen in the Middle East, especially when Israel and Arab states were involved. When American arms destined for Iran and Iraq passed through Israel, for example, B.C.C.I. was frequently the broker and financier. One such transfer involved Iraq's acquisition of Silkworm missiles from China in the mid-1980s. Fahd, worried that Iran was winning its war with Iraq, sought missiles for Saddam Hussein's regime, but was rebuffed by the U.S. and France. B.C.C.I. stepped in and brokered a deal with China as a supplier of the rockets and Israel as a provider of the high-technology guidance...