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...close of World War II, but Japan still claims them. This newly strengthened Soviet outpost includes Mi-24 assault helicopters, among the most sophisticated antitank gunships in the world and therefore an obvious threat to the Japanese armored units stationed just across the Nemuro Strait on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido...
Gingerich said, however, at least one claim about Stonehenge is justified: 'the whole monument is lined up in the direction of the sun during the summer solstice." He added that Stonehenge's designers probably aligned the stones purposely to record the northernmost path...
Tanzanian armed forces have reached the northernmost corners of Uganda, and the fighting by remnants of Idi Amin's army is over. But in the capital city of Kampala, the new government of President Yusufu Lule is hard pressed to maintain even a resemblance of stability. Squabbling within the government, a hastily assembled coalition of often opposing tribal and ideological groups, is so heated that the new regime is barely able to address itself to the crucial problems of reconstruction...
...sides grew increasingly Delphian, as if the combatants were joined in a conspiracy of silence. Despite the official statements-which invariably included grossly exaggerated accounts of dead and wounded-Western analysts believed that up to 150,000 Chinese regular soldiers, arrayed across all of Viet Nam's six northernmost provinces, had captured or laid siege to eleven districts and at least 20 towns. The Chinese claimed to have destroyed six missile sites and a number of communications centers. The estimated 70,000 Vietnamese troops committed thus far, still mostly regional frontier forces and local militia rather than elite regular...
Esteli, 90 miles from the capital city of Managua, is the northernmost city held by the rebels since the uprising began on September...