Word: resorts
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...Americans think the eruption of Mount St. Helens ended the U.S. volcano threat, they may be in for another shock. California's scenic Mammoth Lakes ski resort area, a few miles east of Yosemite National Park, has been jolted by a series of moderately strong earthquakes since 1978. At first seismologists of the U.S. Geological Survey thought the only risk was more quakes. Now they suspect that there may be a danger in the area of a volcanic eruption...
Delegates at the NUR's annual conference in Plymouth, a coastal resort in southwest England, voted 47-30 to suspend the strike after thousands of their 117,500 members defied the strike call and kept some trains running...
...merchant genius of the Phoenicians seemed to linger over the land that Lebanon inherited from them. Beirut, a bright, amiable amalgam of beach resort and international bank and world-class shopping mall and neon whorehouse, was invariably called the Paris of the Middle East. It may have been more like Monte Carlo, crossed with Miami Beach and Zurich. The Lebanese were cultured and vividly commercial. They stood precisely at the intersection of Western and Middle Eastern culture, and took a handsome profit by mediating between the two. They have the highest literacy rate and the only real parliamentary democracy...
...nuclear war is winnable? "This notion has no place in our strategy," insisted Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger last week at the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Said he: "We see nuclear weapons only as a way of discouraging the Soviets from thinking that they could ever resort to them. That is exactly why we must have a capability for a protracted response-to demonstrate that our strategic forces could survive Soviet strikes over an extended period...
...think, creates considerable anxiety. I think you can get about 85 percent of the benefits that a no-first use pledge would bring about...while avoiding some of those intense political costs of creating uncertainty in Europe by a declaration that nuclear weapons are a weapon of last resort....You would have a no-first-nuclear use so long as there has been a withdrawal of conventional troops...