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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rough bush country of east, central and southern Africa. Today there are fewer than 4,000, half of them in Zimbabwe. The Zambezi Valley, with more than 500 animals, now holds the world's last viable breeding herd. To defend them, the country has launched a controversial shoot-on-sight war against poachers, who are killing the rhinos at a rate of one a day. "We have an obligation to the rest of the world to save our rhinos," declares Willie K. Nduku, Zimbabwe's director of national parks. "We won't spare our ammunition...
Hard drugs are usually sold in more menacing surroundings. On the Zeedijk, a narrow enclosed street near the central railroad station where few residents walk after dark, peddlers sidle up to passersby, within sight of policemen patrolling in pairs. On Dam Straat, Amsterdam's other notorious drug row, a span over a placid canal dubbed the "pill bridge" served as the main bazaar for illicit prescription narcotics until police cracked down recently...
...sight-seeing bus tour through the Rocky Mountains west of Denver is one of the nation's summertime spectaculars. But the scenic trip was tragically cut short for 28 vacationers last week when a 6 1/2-ton boulder careered 710 ft. down a mountainside, smacking into the side of their...
...Japan, Pakistan and many other countries, lay at anchor last week in the Gulf of Oman, as did half a dozen U.S. warships. A menacing cluster of mines had brought the world's busiest oil traffic to a sudden and embarrassing halt. One after another, the explosives bobbed into sight. By week's end at least five had been spotted, and every tiny fishing boat that sailed by was carefully watched in case it tried to plant more of the dangerous devices...
...have rejected religion while preserving its forms. He even seems to have had an antirevelation in which scales did not fall from his eyes but covered them. Twenty years ago, Chatwin, then an art expert with Sotheby's in London, woke one morning and could not see. His sight returned later that day. No organic cause for this temporary blindness could be found. An examining physician concluded that the young connoisseur had been looking too closely at pictures and prescribed distant horizons...