Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreements for access to military facilities in Kenya, Somalia and Oman; it also has close ties with Egypt and is building up its Indian Ocean fleet. That network is intended to counter the Soviet military presence in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and South Yemen. Now U.S. military planners may have to reckon with Moscow's closer Syrian connection as well...
...Iraq's aging Kirkuk production fields have been so badly damaged that repairs could take three to six months under the best of circumstances. Remarked one top energy expert in Brussels last week: "If Iran and Iraq kiss and make up tomorrow, the market would still have to reckon with a profound impact-a price increase no matter...
Fang is far more positive. By the 3rd century A.D., he notes, Chinese merchant seamen had reached the Indian Ocean and could reckon their sailing speeds and distances. "So it would have been quite possible for Chinese ships to cross the Pacific in the 5th century...
ALASKA AND ARCTIC CANADA. Geologists reckon that this may be one of the world's best bets. Mobil and Exxon are looking in "iceberg alley" off Canada's east coast, and a dozen companies have been aggressively exploring the Canadian Arctic, especially the Beaufort Sea, where significant oil and gas have been found. But in U.S. territory near the famous North Slope fields oil explorers have not sunk many wells because of court actions brought by Indians and environmentalists who are worried about, among other things, disturbing the migration of the bowhead whale...
...Socialists failed to reckon with anti-Ohira L.D.P. factions, led by former Prime Ministers Takeo Fukuda and Takeo Miki and former Defense Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. The rebels had been demanding that Ohira, 70, step down. Even so, they were not expected to seriously split the party. After the vote, Fukuda insisted that he had warned his faction members against such a move. "It was a big miscalculation," he said. Later, however, he refused to rule out the possibility that he might bolt and form a new conservative party...