Word: miles
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Gaddafi may now find it difficult to hold onto his northern slice of Chad. The expectation is that the retreating troops will make the arduous 500-mile desert trek north to a Libyan base in the Aozou Strip, a 50-mile-wide, mineral-rich area that has been in dispute since World War II. If Habre decides not to push his fight with Gaddafi into the Aozou Strip, Libyans may push Gaddafi to leave the rest of Chad to Habre. But predictions involving the erratic Gaddafi are always risky. Last week, for instance, he threatened to join the Warsaw Pact...
...middle-class tragedy played as sprightly farce. B.B.'s virgin Caddy, with one-sixteenth of a mile on it, collides with Tilley's car. B.B. steals Tilley's restless wife (Barbara Hershey). Tilley defenestrates his wife's clothes and assaults the intruding B.B. with eggs and tomatoes. Barry Levinson, who worked this territory with a younger ensemble in Diner, has the nice idea of making a movie about what people actually do. He also has the ingenuity to give surprising twists to the taffy of his plot. And like a best pal, he knows how to listen, to find obsessions...
...sybaritic stretch. Fort Lauderdale, for example, has tried to discourage collegiate revelers by building a beachfront wall and tightly enforcing drinking laws. Some venturesome students are taking advantage of the strong dollar or bargain excursions by flying to resorts in Mexico and the Caribbean, but the sand-covered, 34-mile-long sliver of South Padre Island has proved to be an inexpensive and enticing alternative to Florida...
Activities directors from the various hotels crammed each day with a Club Med melange of crab races, scuba, and belly-flop and tanning contests. "Some of it's a little crazy," said Hilton Director Bill Parousis, smiling as he oversaw a two-mile-long line of students attempting to fashion the world's largest sand castle. "But it's keeping them out of trouble." One sign of the times: the fear of AIDS injected a note of caution to the usual sex-charged atmosphere of spring break. Comic Jay Leno drew cheers by noting that it was "National Condom Week...
Tensions between the two NATO allies abated, at least temporarily, when the Sismik 1 began seismic tests in Turkish waters. A spokesman in Ankara said that "as long as Greece stays within the six-mile territorial waters limit in its oil research, we will do the same." Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou pronounced his outlook on the squabble as one of "restrained optimism...