Word: soils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hyperbole as he opened the first valve on the Isle of Grain. Benn held aloft a souvenir bottle of the crude and announced to an assembly that included U.S. Ambassador Elliot Richardson: "This is much more significant and historic than the moon shot, which only brought back soil and rock...
...same sort of bristly independence. The Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram angrily charged that during Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin's visit to Libya two weeks ago, Gaddafi agreed to take $4 billion in Soviet arms in return for allowing the Russians to establish military facilities and technicians on Libyan soil. Libya speedily denied such reports, but diplomats in Cairo were not impressed. Even if the dimensions of Soviet aid were not yet clear, Egyptian observers said, the fact remained that the Russians had moved into Libya on a major scale and from there will be in a strong position, through...
...other at one or two year intervals since Nkrumah's fall have done nothing. "He built what roads, hospitals, and schools there are, and the government is letting them fall apart. Ghana is being fed by the long-range planting projects Nkrumah started--almost anything will grow in this soil--but nobody is innovating any more...
...Thais have been stunned by the fall of the non-Communist governments in Cambodia and South Viet Nam and the current turbulence in Laos. Thailand sent soldiers to fight in South Viet Nam, and 25,000 U.S. servicemen and 350 American military aircraft are still based on Thai soil. But the Thais, who share 1,000 miles of common border with Laos and Cambodia, have suddenly found themselves surrounded by hostile forces. Accordingly, they are moving swiftly toward a neutralist stance in keeping with the new realities of power in Southeast Asia...
...huge cylinders (1,100 yds. long and 220 yds. in diameter) would support 10,000 people; they would contain an atmosphere like earth's, water, farm land and a variety of flora and fauna. The cylinders would rotate slowly, thus simulating gravity and holding people, buildings and soil "down" on the inner surfaces. For power, the space colonizers would rely on ever-present sunlight, captured by large external mirrors that could be controlled to create the effect of night and day and even of seasonal change...