Word: soils
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...Begin's pledge to the Knesset, delivered three days later, "to bring our sons home from Lebanon." It also drove home a harder truth to the Israeli public: one year after the Israeli invasion that was launched with the intention of transforming Lebanon into a friendly neighbor whose soil would never again be used as a base for attacks against Israel, Israeli forces in Lebanon have become bogged down in an increasingly violent war of nerves. Three days after the Chouf ambush, an Israeli convoy was fired upon from a passing car, this time on a main street...
According to Bruce Kaliser, chief hazard geologist for the Utah department of natural resources, the soil on mountains in the area is supersaturated because of an abnormally high winter snowpack's melting under suddenly warm spring weather. Torrential rains have further loosened the soil, which has been tumbling down into the canyons, creating an earth dam. As water builds up behind the dams, it is only a matter of time before the unstable materials start to give way and a mud slide is born...
...addition, the contras have been stepping up the frequency and ferocity of their raids in recent weeks. There is fear of more attacks as the counterrevolutionaries try to establish permanent bases on Nicaraguan soil. "That is a terrible prospect," says the Sandinistas' Ramirez. "Already this year we have had 500 military and civilian casualties in the fighting with the contras. In the U.S. the proportional loss would be about 50,000 people...
...prestige in the area. The Soviets, however, have returned to the area with surprising speed. They replaced most of the Syrian equipment destroyed last year, and supplied the Syrian armed forces with sophisticated new weaponry. There are now 4,000 to 6,000 Soviet technicians and advisers on Syrian soil, representing an increase of some 2,000 since the war. Also, for the first time, Moscow has installed its advanced SA-5 surface-to-air missiles outside the Soviet Union. The two batteries of SA-5s, located near the Syrian towns of Dumar and Shimshar and manned by So viet...
Principled pacifism has never found fertile soil in the U.S. It remains a minority belief. In its place has grown a new pacifism, also rejecting the use of force, but on other, more American grounds. The grounds are pragmatic; the appeal is to prudence; and the theory is that force is to be abjured because, ultimately, it is futile. The new pacifism is not the practice of a crackpot cult. It represents a strongly felt, but almost invisible current of contemporary American thought. Invisible, because its most serious manifestation is not the antinuclear movement, which is neither particularly...