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ABOUT 15,000 VOTERS IN CANADA'S SPARSELY SETtled Northwest Territories made it to the polls last week and narrowly approved a plan to split the vast region in two. Once a chain of legal steps is completed, the new 772,000-sq.-mi. territory, to be called Nunavut, will become a national home for the Eskimo -- or Inuit -- of the country's eastern Arctic. It will encompass a huge area of mainland and islands stretching from Manitoba almost to the North Pole that is thought to be rich in oil and minerals...
RATTLED BY TWO SUBSTANTIAL EARTHQUAKES AND their rumbling aftershocks the previous weekend, Californians had reason to relax a little by last Wednesday. The ground had stopped shaking. And then, at midafternoon, came the seismic news: a Superior Court jury in Simi Valley, a bedroom community northwest of Los Angeles, had acquitted on all but one count -- and deadlocked on that -- the four white L.A. policemen on trial for beating and otherwise mistreating black motorist Rodney King...
...view of many legal experts in California, the outcome may have been decided as soon as the trial venue was moved to the dry hills of Simi Valley, an overwhelmingly white, middle-class community of 100,000, 35 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. In July a state appeals court accepted defense arguments that the barrage of publicity and political fallout surrounding the case would make it impossible for a fair trial to be held in Los Angeles County. The move was surprising, though not without precedent. In a typical year, about 10 felony trials are moved in California...
...Slavs were held in check only by strongman Josip Broz Tito's centralized communist system. By the time of his death in 1980, the country was already unraveling. Political power had decentralized, the relatively prosperous economy was faltering, and old tensions began to rise. The richer republics of the northwest, Slovenia and Croatia, felt their development was hampered by the poorer republics of Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. Serbia was hated by the rest for dominating the government and the army; in turn it saw preserving unity at all costs as a mission, given weight by fears that Serbs...
...American Northeast, the Asian gypsy moth has decimated millions of acres in Siberia and China. Among the reasons: the Asian moths can cover 20 miles before laying their eggs. (Females of the European variety do not fly.) If the Asian gypsy moth becomes entrenched in the Pacific Northwest, the Forest Service estimates that the toll on the timber industry could run upwards of $35 billion over the next 40 years. By contrast, Washington's spray program -- which is scheduled to run about six weeks and cover 116,500 acres -- will cost $8.9 million. British Columbia has already started spraying...