Word: sandspit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the sailing ships Porpoise and Cato foundered off eastern Australia one night in August 1803, Explorer Matthew Flinders led the 94 survivors to safety on a nearby sandspit, then sailed and rowed a small cutter 729 miles to Sydney for help. While Flinders is an Australian national hero-the first man to circumnavigate the continent-the theory persisted that his navigating was off when he recorded the wreckage at latitude 22° 11' south, longitude 155° 13' east. But that spot is precisely where an Australian underwater photographer named Ben Cropp last week, 162 years later...
Kuwait, that Connecticut-sized sandspit at the head of the Persian Gulf, controls one-quarter of the world's petroleum, collects $600 million in oil royalties annually and boasts a greater per capita income for its 468,000 people-$3,000 a year-than the U.S. Yet Kuwait's very prosperity has brought it some economic problems. The country is so saturated with imported autos, refrigerators, TV sets and other durable goods that sales have slumped for its 17,000 shopkeepers. Making this situation worse, a flood of job-seeking immigrants from other, poorer Arab lands has raised...
...port, which is already in operation, will end Yemen's dependence on its hated British-owned neighbor, Aden. It was dredged out of a sandspit near the fly-infested city of Hodeida by 300 Russian technicians, plus uncounted Yemeni laborers. Not to be outdone, the Chinese Communists are building a modern highway from Hodeida to the ancient walled city of Sana (altitude: 7,260 ft.), Yemen's oldest capital. Every day, some 2.000 Red Chinese toil shoulder to shoulder with 3,000 of their Yemeni brothers, all the while singing the great ballads of the Chinese proletariat...