Word: regions
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...dangerously destabilizing. Second, America's strategic position, widely assumed to be imperiled by the disastrous ending of its involvement in the Viet Nam War, was unexpectedly enhanced. Finally, the new relationship between China, the United States and Japan dealt a diplomatic setback to the Soviet Union throughout the region...
...beat. In chronicling another election in Sri Lanka, Desmond spent days trying to make contact with violent Sinhalese rebels, whose campaign of murder frightened many voters away from the polls. Now back in New Delhi, Desmond will continue to keep TIME's eye on the disordered corners of his region, but hopes to spend more time close to his base. That will bring no shortage of hot news though. India is scheduled to hold its national elections by December...
Near the top of the list has been the size of Nicaragua's armed forces. The U.S. contends that the Sandinistas' 70,000-member standing army is much bigger than necessary for legitimate defense and that it looms as a threat to other countries in the region. Ortega claimed he has already cut back his troops by 10,000 and reduced the state security police by 6,000. Nicaragua has also slashed one-third of its security budget, from $180 million this year to $127 million in 1990. If Washington feels further reductions are necessary, added Ortega, "we're ready...
...head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the most prominent proponents of the greenhouse theory, was not at all swayed by the new study. "Even in a warming world," he says, "you'd still expect on a statistical basis to see local variation -- one region cooler than the average, another hotter. If you look at an area as small as the U.S., then natural variability is very large. But % it's the global average that is important." While other climate experts are slower to make concrete predictions, Hansen's studies of global temperatures suggest that...
There are difficulties for foreigners used to greater wealth exists in the countryside. Beyond the farmlands--which grow corn, bananas, beans and sugar cane amid green, rolling hills in Kakamega--lies a region that is severely undeveloped...