Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this Southern squall is a 242-sq.-mi. area at the tip of the Florida peninsula known as the East Everglades. Like Everglades National Park, just to the west, it is still unspoiled, filled with palmettos and sawgrass, marshes and wildlife. And that is the problem. Eager to escape Florida's crowded, condo-filled coast, the homesteaders have picked one of the state's most ecologically fragile regions, essential to the environmental well-being of all of South Florida...
Much of the peninsula was once a great natural sponge of swamps, marshes and flood land that trapped and filtered fresh water. But to clear the way for development, as well as to control floods, these wetlands have been largely drained away. This has not only threatened the quality of surface water but also cut off its flow into underlying aquifers, the porous rock formations that serve as subterranean reservoirs...
...Egyptians, one worrisome prospect concerns the final Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula, which is scheduled to take place next April. At that time, the agreement also calls for the removal of some 5,000 Israeli settlers who have moved into agricultural communes near the Mediterranean and into tourist centers along the Red Sea coast on the southern tip of the Sinai. Two of the parties to which Begin would be beholden in a coalition are in favor of keeping the settlers there. If a government crisis developed over the issue, the Israeli withdrawal might be delayed, thereby causing problems...
...Jackson inmates once more began looting and burning. They destroyed some of the prefabricated dormitory units that had been put into service to relieve overcrowding in cells. Just as that uprising began to subside, 200 convicts in the maximum-security prison at Marquette, on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, started another sympathy riot. They set their vocational school on fire, as well as a garment factory and store. Fourteen inmates and eight guards were injured before gun squads could restore order. Total damage in all three prisons was estimated at roughly $10 million...
...been glaringly inconsistent. For example, Armco steel was barred in March 1980 from joining a Japanese steel firm in constructing a $350 million cold-rolling mill in Novolipetsk. But Caterpillar was granted approval late last year to supply pipelaying equipment used in building the 3,000-mile Yamal Peninsula natural gas pipeline. A semiconductor chip that U.S. companies cannot sell to the Soviets has been licensed for production in Brazil, which is not bound by the embargo. The microchip, in fact, is a component in a popular computer game that is for sale in Western European toy stores. Says Samuel...