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Advocates of drilling on the refuge emphasize that the pumping operations would involve an area only the size of Delaware, while the entire preserve is nearly as large as Maine. And the crude could be carried cheaply in the 800- mile trans-Alaska pipeline, which has a good safety record. Environmentalists, however, see the drilling as a gross intrusion on one of the last untouched wilderness areas. Many Eskimos favor development because they would legally share in the income. But the Gwich'in Indians in Arctic Village (pop. 100) near the refuge bitterly oppose it. "This is a simple issue...
While some of the Western hostages anxiously await chartered jets out of Baghdad, more than 70,000 refugees are trapped in a 43-mile-wide swath of no- man's-land between Jordan and Iraq. Largely from India, the Philippines, Pakistan and Bangladesh, these refugees once worked in Kuwait at jobs the natives disdained: as drivers, waiters and maids. Though never wealthy, they earned good wages and had become accustomed to the air-conditioned placidity of their adopted country. Today they languish in three sprawling, filthy tent cities, called Shaalan One, Two and Three, erected in a sweltering moonscape infested...
Peace talks bogged down until Saddam last month began pulling troops out of Iranian territory and exchanging prisoners. The move apparently freed up hundreds of thousands of Iraqi troops along the two countries' 750-mile border for possible deployment in the Persian Gulf crisis...
Without warning, violent winds up to 300 m.p.h. twisted out of the northern Illinois sky last week, vented their fury in a 16-mile-long path, then vanished. Sister Mary Keenan, principal of St. Mary Immaculate Catholic Grade School in Plainfield, was swept away from a group of teachers seeking safety in the school and was killed. Nine residents of the town of Crest Hill died $ when they were sucked from their three-story apartment complex and hurled 40 ft. away into a cornfield. In the tornado's swath across Joliet and neighboring small towns, at least 27 people died...
First scientists must eliminate other sources of radiation that may trigger false signals in the gallium. (To shield the experiment from cosmic rays, the detectors are installed in an underground tunnel, beneath a mile of rock.) About the only thing harder than proving that solar neutrinos passed through the gallium-filled tanks is proving that they didn...