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...reversed by Carter's call for an annual 4.8% real increase in Pentagon spending over the next five years. More immediately, the U.S. could improve its military posture in the Middle East by obtaining bases there. Egypt and Israel have already offered use of their faculties; in the Indian Ocean region, Oman, Somalia and Kenya have indicated that they would be receptive to a U.S. request for bases. Currently, the only U.S. military installation in the Indian Ocean is an airstrip on the tiny island of Diego Garcia, about 1,000 miles off India's coast...
...Russian Empire has been conceived as a journey traversing what was the largest empire in modern history. Obolensky has charted the course from St. Petersburg and Moscow, across the Volga, the Urals and Siberia to the empire's frontier on the Pacific Ocean. The photographs then take the viewer back through Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Crimea to Russia's western borderlands at the Carpathian Mountains and the Baltic Sea. This approach permits Obolensky to include some of the exotic peoples and tribes that, like the Russians who colonized them, have long since lost much of their...
...ocean blue and sun gold" USIU "Soaring Gulls" peppered Harvard goalies Wade Lau and John Hynes with 97 shots, as Harvard never challenged USIU in their first encounter and then fell apart in the third period of the second. "California," summed up Dave Burke, "was disillusioning...
Home now for the deposed Shah is Contadora, an island a little more than a mile square lying 20 miles off Panama in the Pacific Ocean. Part of a necklace of 226 other islands called Las Perlas (The Pearls), Contadora earned its name -Spanish for counter-during the 16th century when it was used by the Spaniards as a place to count their catch from the surrounding pearl-rich waters. In the 1920s, a mysterious disease killed off the oyster beds, and for decades Contadora remained just another of the obscure-if beautiful-islands that speckle the Gulf of Panama...
...firm had done this, I'd fire him." Fickle and unprincipled, the authors claim, Burger is a jurist who can write, a very liberal opinion on race discrimination, just so that his critics cannot easily pigeonhole him as a conservative. He is certainly no leader. "On ocean liners," Justice Potter Stewart reportedly told clerks at one point, "they used to have two captains. One for show, to take the women to dinner. The other to pilot the ship safely. The chief is the show captain. All we need now is a real captain...