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...ocean, the beach and the seawall were covered in fog. He has gone to find those people from the beach, I thought, and panicked. The tide comes in in the evening with an incredible speed and Francois can barely walk along the slippery rocks down to the now-covered sand bars...
Most American cities still treat raw sewage with relatively primitive methods. Larger particles of waste are usually allowed to settle out of the polluted water, which is filtered through gravel and sand and then chlorinated before being piped to a nearby river or lake. Trouble is, such "purified" sewage is almost always contaminated with a rich brew of bacteria and viruses, to say nothing of stubborn industrial wastes that may serve as fertilizers and cause such rapid plant growth in the waters where they are dumped that all other forms of life are eventually choked...
...Ranh every six minutes; ships unloaded millions of tons of supplies there monthly; hundreds of thousands of soldiers flew into the base to be reassigned to the northern parts of South Vietnam. It was incredible to me then that three years before there had been nothing there but white sand and the startling blue water of the South China...
Last year I talked with a reporter who was in Cam Ranh about six months age. Sand drafts are covering the roads now, packs of wild dogs roam around the post and the 5000 beds of the 12th Evac Hospital are all empty. The street lights still turn on automatically every evening...
...what the hundreds of unsuspecting travelers heard was the sound of gunfire. The fusillade signaled the start of a guerrilla attack in Rome last week that turned into the bloodiest rampage in the surreal five-year history of Arab skyjack terrorism. Before it ended 30 hours later-in the sand beyond a runway of the airport in Kuwait-31 people had been killed in Rome and one more in Athens...