Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michigan's thinly settled Upper Peninsula, the storms were ferocious. Schools, businesses and most roads were shut down, and mail delivery stopped, as snowdrifts up to 14 ft. high froze solid. Buffeted by 50-m.p.h. winds, giant Mackinac Bridge was closed for only the third time in its history. Actually, last week's new snow was hardly noticeable atop the 3 ft. that had fallen since Dec. 30. With temperatures as low as -17°, naturally, Hell (pop. 20) was frozen over...
...handsome Arabian horses, a chestnut and a gray, are the Montanas' nearest neighbors and two of their closest friends. When the football year is out (fearing injury, Joe won't ride in season), Cass and Joe can be seen galloping through the buckbrush up and down the peninsula hills, sometimes clear to the ocean six miles off on the horizon. Joe has a great fondness for animals. The two obstreperous dachshunds, Broadway (a tribute to Namath) and Bosley (after Charlie's Angels' major domo) reside underfoot. Says Cass: "Joe will just sit here and get lost...
Though almost everything else about Middle East diplomacy appears to be in flux, one lodestar remains fixed: April 26, the day on which Israel, under terms of the Camp David accords, is scheduled to return the final third of the Sinai Peninsula to Egyptian control. The Israeli withdrawal is vital to the Camp David peace process, to the Egyptian government of President Hosni Mubarak and to the maintenance of peace in the Middle East...
...days they will undergo health examinations. Then they will be placed in the Jubilee Reception Center, where all refugees must be processed before going off to any of four camps: Argyle 3 and 4, or Kai Tak East and North. Like the Jubilee center, all are located on Kowloon Peninsula. In the camps the children will go to school, kill time, and wait for a sign from France, England or America...
...European Community, of which he currently is president, Carrington reportedly expressed some reservations about the Fahd plan. But he also was said to have agreed that nothing more can be expected from the Camp David process after Israel's scheduled withdrawal from the last portion of the Sinai Peninsula next April, and that the Palestinians must be brought into negotiations with Israel. Haig at week's end protested those remarks to the British government. The Secretary of State said he had urged Lord Carrington to "cool...