Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ravaged, with New Mexico losing some 80,000 acres to flames and Arizona nearly 88,000. The conflagration that raced through northern New Mexico's Carson National Forest in early May particularly startled and unnerved experts. Says Mary Zabinski, fire-information officer with the U.S. Forest Service's southwestern region: "We have kiddingly called the Carson the asbestos forest because it is always so wet and at such a high elevation that it never burns. With the Carson burning, and so early, that told us this was going to be a rough summer...
...stakes this May 29 were manifest, nothing less than a referendum on Arab-Israeli peace and the course that could change the region's political, cultural and economic character, perhaps forever. At issue was not peace vs. security: all Israelis crave both, and each candidate vowed he could deliver both, if by vastly different means. For voters the choices resolved themselves into something deeply psychological: hope vs. fear, opportunity vs. peril, a plunge into a risky future or an overhasty abandoning of the familiar, go-it-alone past. Was it wise to put faith in the dream of Nobel Peace...
...ascendance was grim news to most Arabs. "We in the Middle East are in trouble," said Nawaf Salam, a law lecturer at the American University of Beirut. "Only Peres was willing to offer something the Arabs could accept. With him, Israel had a real possibility of reconciliation with the region. Now all this is in doubt." Said Bassma Kodmani Darwish, Middle East specialist at the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales in Paris: "It will be difficult to convince public opinion anywhere that there is a need to make peace...
Several officers will be assigned to a geographic region of campus, where they will work in teams with security guards stationed at their usual posts...
...Harvard (19-9, 9-0 EITA) was ranked in the top twenty again and was the second seed heading into the Region I NCAA qualifying tournament to be held at Harvard's Beren Tennis Center...