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...southeastward sprawl along California's Highway 111 has nearly doubled the valley's population, from 88,000 to 170,000, since 1970. In recent years the number of new houses, condominiums and hotels in the strip has grown as much as 60% a year. The value of building permits in the community of Palm Desert leaped 495% in 1985. Indian Wells, which had 800 residents when it was incorporated in 1967, now has 1,900 with an average annual income of $74,000, making it one of the nation's wealthiest communities. Some 8,000 residences are now abuilding...
...with high readings mostly in the 60s across central New England and 70 to 75 across southern New England. Tonight: Partly to mostly cloudy. Temperatures will remain on the mild side with lows mostly 40 to 50. Tomorrow: Partly sunny skies but there is the chance of showers developing southeastward through northern New England during the day, possibly into the western hills of southern New England by evening. High temperatures...
Driven by winds and currents, enough of these icebergs could drift southeastward into Prince William Sound and the waterways now used by supertankers ferrying oil south to virtually halt traffic. Explains Coast Guard Captain Ronald Kollmeyer: "When you have literally thousands of icebergs in the shipping lanes, you can't drive an 800-to 900-ft. tanker through that sort of gauntlet." Last August, the glacier's calving increased enough to force closing of the Valdez lanes to night traffic for nearly a week...
Stretching 500 miles southeastward from the delta of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to a narrow strait that doglegs around the tiny tip of Oman, the Persian Gulf may be the world's most valuable and vulnerable waterway. At such desert-edge ports as Ras Tanura, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Dhahran and Kharg Island, scores of supertankers congregate like wallowing whales to suck up crude oil. Daily they plow through the gulfs warm waters and out through the Strait of Hormuz carrying some 20 million bbl. of oil-almost half of the non-Communist world's consumption...
...least some of them. The withdrawal from Laos was in fact divided into three fairly distinct parts, and Washington still maintained that it would not be completed until mid-April. According to the Pentagon, several thousand of the 20,000 South Vietnamese who went into Laos were sweeping southeastward toward home, hilltop hopping by helicopter and disrupting enemy supply routes. Some 10,000 more ARVN troops, whose armored column had been stalled for five weeks on Route 9, 15 miles inside Laos, began a slow creep back toward the border...