Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...natural defenses. Soon hundreds of new cases were being reported annually. The panic that had swept Europe during its epidemics centuries earlier was repeated in Hawaii. In 1865, King Kamehameha V ordered all lepers confined to the most desolate part of his realm, the volcanic, 14-sq.-mi. peninsula of Kalaupapa jutting northward from the coast of Molokai. The first 35 patients were landed in January 1866, with no more food and clothing than they could carry on their backs...
Watson slacked off the torrid pace when he took a bogey on number nine, a hole that belongs on a picture postcard. The drive is played from a desolate peninsula that overlooks the weatherbeaten ruins of a castle...
...northern Norwegian sea. The exercise included an unusually strong display of air capability. The 40 or so ships and 30 submarines involved in the operation were only part of the Murmansk-based Soviet Northern Fleet, which includes 51 major surface vessels and 180 subs. On the Kola Peninsula, the Soviets regularly carry out increasingly sophisticated amphibious exercises. The silhouettes of Soviet nuclear submarines have been spotted gliding quietly in many of Norway's fjords...
...maintaining 3,400 Russians on Spitsbergen (v. 1,000 Norwegians), most of whom are military men disguised as civilians. Under the treaty, their presence on the island is perfectly legal, so long as they obey Norwegian laws. One of their assignments: to discourage Norwegian interest in the Kola Peninsula's military installations...
South Korea sees itself as militarily strong, but facing an extreme hazard. Every Korean leader seems to have a map in his mind and a geographic lecture on his lips: the country is the tip of a small peninsula at the edge of the Asian continent. It faces not only the intransigent opposition of North Korea on its only border, but beyond that the land mass of both China and Soviet Russia. At its back and sides, South Koreans repeatedly point out, there is only...