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...launched at the Soviet Union in a nuclear war. Some scientists contend that the design of the third stage places too much rocket fuel too close to the warheads. Conceivably the fuel could ignite and detonate chemical explosives in the warhead while the missile was being handled in port, producing a potentially heavy leakage of cancer-causing plutonium dust near Trident bases in Washington State and Georgia. Other experts furiously dispute these findings, which will be examined by a panel of three scientists appointed by Congress with Pentagon acquiescence...
...late November 1989, American intelligence reported that the Soviet freighter Vladimir Ilyich, bound for Nicaragua, had loaded a cargo of four Mi- 17 Hip helicopters at Port Leningrad. The 38 Hips previously shipped to the Sandinistas had been used to devastating effect in the war against the contra rebels. It now looked as if Managua would get more. In neighboring El Salvador, meanwhile, Marxist guerrillas had launched their strongest offensive in years, managing to trap twelve American Green Berets in a luxury hotel. President Bush responded by dispatching a contingent of Delta Force commandos. U.S. intervention seemed a distinct possibility...
...Peninsula, strategically placed at the mouth of the Red Sea, were reunited last week after more than 400 years. Once the Queen of Sheba's realm, Yemen has been divided since the 16th century, when first the Ottoman Turks and later the British colonized the southern territory around the port of Aden...
With a population of nearly 12 million, the new Republic of Yemen could become a regional power. Its assets include oil reserves estimated at up to 4 billion bbl. and a new commercial capital at Aden. The once busy port has lost Western business since it fell into pro-Soviet hands, but refueling at Aden could come back into favor: it would save ships 2 1/2 days of sailing...
...Fernando's student body; in the district they form 59% of the total, up from just a fifth in 1978. Of the school's 3,000 pupils, nearly half are enrolled in bilingual or English-as-a-second-language classes. "This is very much a port-of-entry school," says Bilingual-ESL Program coordinator Pat Reynosa. That means, says Reynosa, that in addition to having limited or nonexistent English, many of the students must cope with the pressures of grinding poverty (a median family income of $17,000; 18% on welfare) and the anomie common to refugees. And since Hispanics...