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Across the U.S., the Arctic downdraft froze bodies of water large and small, sometimes with dire results. The Snake River in Idaho was stopped up by a ten-mile-long ice jam, threatening floods, and Louisiana's Red River froze up for the first time this century. Coast Guard cutters freed a dozen Lake Erie freighters stuck in 12-ft.-high windrows of ice, and on the frozen Mississippi River near Keokuk, Iowa, 30 towboats pushing about 430 grain barges are trapped until spring. In the shallow Gulf of Mexico bays from Galveston to Port Isabel, Texas, tens...
...engage in negotiations aimed at limiting the U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals. With the help of Henry Kissinger, Nixon also played his "China card" and traveled to Peking, putting Moscow on notice that the U.S. was prepared to deal with a country that shared a tense, 4,200-mile-long border with the Soviet Union...
...Marine lieutenant on duty near Beirut International Airport said later. "The sides of buildings were shaking, and we thought the windows would shatter. We went into Condition 1, which means full combat alert. Then we realized that what we had heard was the firing of those big babies a mile and a half from shore. We didn't hear them land, but we could imagine what it must have been like...
...vast sales floors of Harrods, London's fashionable department store, thousands of customers roamed through acres of lavish displays. Suddenly, at 1:20 p.m. Saturday, a car parked outside exploded with a thunderous roar that could be heard all the way to Buckingham Palace, one mile away. As debris flew like shrapnel, black smoke soared into the air. Said Harry Aspey, a British reporter who was slightly hurt by the blast just as he was leaving the store: "It was as if the world had come to an end. Glass came raining down from the sky, it seemed...
...Soviets it was the "deal of the century," but in the West it is better remembered as an unnecessary source of tension between the U.S. and Western Europe. The Reagan Administration vigorously opposed European plans to help build and finance an $18 billion, 2,759-mile pipeline designed to deliver up to 20 billion cubic meters a year of natural gas from Siberia to Western Europe. The U.S. not only barred American companies from working on the project, but it imposed economic sanctions (suspended five months later) against West European participants. But as the U.S. and its allies squabbled...