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Harvard's Jenny Stricker destroyed the field in the women's two-mile race on her way to a meet-record, 10:06.56, performance Stricker led from the start and lapped half the field...
...fact, the U.S. maneuvers were far from routine. The Navy did indeed seem intent on challenging Gaddafi's claim that the 300-mile-wide gulf belongs to Libya. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who devised the strategy and won White House support, had another purpose as well: to show Libya what it might confront if it promotes more terrorism. The U.S. contends that Gaddafi was at least partly responsible for the Christmas-week massacres at the Rome and Vienna airports. Beyond that, senior U.S. officials seemed eager to provoke Gaddafi into a military response. Said one Pentagon official: "If they...
...reels and strathspeys, and French military bands blared out God Save the Queen and the Marseillaise. But nothing embodied the spirit of Franco-British cooperation more than a joint announcement by President Francois Mitterrand and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that their governments had approved the construction of a 31-mile-long rail tunnel linking the two countries. For nearly two centuries, rulers, entrepreneurs and engineers have dreamed of spanning the English Channel...
...governments last October by competing groups. The winning proposal envisages two tubes, each 24 ft. in diameter, through which trains will shuttle passengers and vehicles between Cheriton and Frethun. A third tunnel, 15 ft. wide, is to provide ventilation and access for service personnel. The 31-mile- long main tubes (underwater length will be 23 miles) are to be dug through the chalk deposits 131 ft. below the Channel floor...
...fare: about $30 for a vehicle and driver) and single- deckers for trucks. France Manche officials claim that an entire train could be loaded in only ten minutes. The crossing will take 30 minutes, vs. 75 minutes for ferries and 35 minutes for Hovercraft now plying the shortest (21- mile) cross-Channel route, from Dover to Calais. If France's high-speed TGV (Train a Grande Vitesse) network is extended to the Channel coast, the Paris-London train journey will take 3 3/4 hours, half the average time of the current trip by rail and boat...