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Thomas Jefferson was just about as intrigued by the unexplored vastness between him and the Pacific Ocean as he was by forming a government for the new republic. When he came to the White House the way west was fixed in his imagination. He called the area "terra incognita" and finally sent Lewis and Clark to take a look. Jefferson understood that its hugeness, its richness, was to be the basis of American greatness. It still is, and that is the same force that touched Carter...
...Krakatoa, a volcanic island in Indonesia, blew apart in modern history's most devastating eruption. The bang could be heard 3,000 miles away. The eruption left a hole in the ocean floor more than 1,100 ft. deep and 6½ miles wide; islands 50 miles away were showered with fiery boulders weighing as much as 70 Ibs. The explosion caused 130-ft. tidal waves that swept over hundreds of villages on nearby islands, including Java and Sumatra, and drowned...
Muskie also stressed to the Europeans an argument that has become increasingly pointed since the invasion of Afghanistan: that they must carry a heavier defense burden in order to free some U.S. military resources for duty in the now strategically critical Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. U.S. officials had been pressing the Europeans on this for several months, and last week the allies agreed on a two-stage program to accelerate NATO's already ambitious two-year-old Long Term Defense Program. As a first stage, the alliance plans to acquire more conventional battlefield weapons within the next year...
...they were guarded. Over the months, the militants had decreased their numbers and vigilance. Also, the U.S. had launched two secret military satellites in late November, completing the Air Force's positioning of six command and communications satellites around the world, including one over the Indian Ocean. The system could send almost instantaneous messages between the Pentagon and rescue commanders in the field. It might even have helped covert agents get information out of Tehran...
...books and scores of legislative reports, not to mention innumerable recapitulations by local, state, national and international investigative groups. The tale of Attica's prisoner mutiny and massacre nine years ago, though tragic because of its cost of 43 lives, was only a spit in the dark ocean of the prison chronicle...