Word: peninsulas
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Massive infusions of Russian capital, raw materials and technology are pushing Bulgaria into the industrial age. A major reason for Bulgaria's windfall lies in its geographic position. The only trustworthy Soviet satellite in the Balkan Peninsula, Bulgaria is bordered by relatively independent Rumania, maverick Yugoslavia, and two NATO member states, Greece and Turkey. Expanding Soviet interest in the nearby Middle East and Mediterranean has given this 43,000-sq. mi. enclave new strategic importance. Although the Kremlin is so confident of Bulgarian loyalty that no Russian troops are stationed there, the Soviets have deployed "Frog" and "Skud" ground...
...into its translunar trajectory, he pointed his camera back toward home and caught a stunning view of the earth, with the side visible to the astronauts completely illuminated. In crystal-clear detail it shows almost the entire coastline of Africa and the offshore island republic of Malagasy, the Arabian peninsula and an unusually thick cover of swirling clouds over Antarctica and the surrounding region at the bottom of the world...
...SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL by Hans Handler. Photographs by Erich Lessing. 272 pages. McGraw-Hill. $29.95. In 1580 the Habsburgs began importing strong, intelligent and graceful horses from the Iberian Peninsula to the town of Lippiza. Hans Handler traces the history of the Spanish Riding School, where the Lippizaner horses have always been trained, down through the centuries to its present site in Vienna. Erich Lessing's photographs are no substitute for watching the massed horses moving to the strains of Mozart, but this book is a monument to the disciplined beauty that classical horsemanship can achieve...
...North Korea's Premier Kim II Sung has, but it throws a serious snag into prospects for reunification. The two governments have been holding preliminary negotiations since May, but Park did not change the present constitutional article defining South Korea's territory as the whole Korean Peninsula and its adjacent islands-thus encompassing North Korea as well. Last week Pyongyang announced that North Korea's constitution was also being revised "to legally solidify socialist achievements...
...however, the entire system is expected to be operative. The first stretch links Oakland, in the East Bay area, with Fremont in the south. The next will reach north to Richmond. Other arms will extend east to Concord and west under the Bay into San Francisco and down the peninsula to Daly City. The X-shaped system will touch every urban population concentration in the three counties, linking up an estimated 2.5 million people...