Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Memorial Day weekend the invaders descended with a vengeance. Each day some 250 ATVs gathered on a stretch of the Black River near Centerville, a wide-open area of gravel bars and shallow water. The weekend warriors jousted at one another with their three- and four-wheel vehicles, running up and down the riverbed with abandon. As some ATV riders sat chugging beer on the bank, cohorts roared past at breakneck speeds, narrowly missing other vehicles. Music blasted from portable radios and car stereos, commingling with the whoops of riders and the growl of unmuffled engines. The air stank...
Rivers are not the only ecosystems involved in the no-holds-barred battle between ATV users and environmentalists. In California some 500,000 acres of public land are open to use by the increasingly popular off-road vehicles. The Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area east of San Diego, for example, draws tens of thousands of visitors. Environmentalists are enraged. Says Bob Hattoy, Southern California director of the Sierra Club: "They have ample room to play, but they feel they have the cowboy's right to ride the range wherever they want, whenever they want and how far they want...
...unprecedented: a flu virus, for example, killed more than 500 harbor seals along the coast of New England from Cape Cod, Mass., to Maine over a period of ten months beginning in December 1979. This time, researchers believe, the deadly virus may have originated in slaughterhouse refuse deposited in open dumps along Sweden's western coast. It may then have been transmitted by sea gulls to the seal breeding grounds offshore...
...other side of the harbor, near the 15th century Crusader castle that dominates the town, about 200 gulets -- motor-equipped sailboats built by local craftsmen -- take tourists out for a week or a month in the unspoiled waters off Turkey's Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. Halicarnas, an enormous open-air disco, pumps music and shoots lasers until dawn. Ertegun, who was born in Istanbul and came to the U.S. as a boy, now owns a sumptuous villa in Bodrum where he entertains such glitterati as Mick Jagger and Oscar de la Renta...
...only opposition party tolerated in Iran, former Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan is one of a handful of political figures allowed to voice mild criticism in public of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Bazargan has usually exercised the privilege with restraint. But last week Iranian exiles in Paris distributed copies of an open letter to Khomeini, said to have been written by Bazargan, in which the Ayatullah was accused of having created a "despotism worthy of the pharaohs...