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...which empties into the Tasman Sea, is being rerouted to flow through the Snowy Mountains into farmland watering systems. The Soviets are working on a similar project involving the Ob and the Yenisei, which flow north out of Siberia to the Kara Sea. By diverting part of these waters southward, the Soviets will feed them into an irrigation system that could keep marginal wheatlands productive...
Radcliffe's top four players, Julia Moore, Sarah Mleczko, Jenny Stone, and Eve Caligor, made the southward trek and bettered last year's performance by three places...
...Freeze was back. Minneapolis shivered in a low of -8°, Chicago -13°, Atlanta -18°, Miami Beach 54°. Worse yet, another blizzard howled across the Midwest, and even colder blasts of arctic air-carrying temperatures as frigid as 40° below normal -were expected to dive southward during the weekend across much of the U.S. east of the Rockies...
Many exasperated humorists still find that the primary also-rans offered them richer fare than the winners. Ronald Reagan captured the Texas primary, concluded Mark Russell, because he promised to extend the state's borders southward to Panama and install an exact-change lane in the canal. (Reagan's Panama hat is now worn by California Senatorial Candidate S.I. Hayakawa, who insists: "We should keep the canal. We stole it fair and square.") Chevy Chase on NBC's Saturday Night rather sickly reported that George Wallace, "aiming to set the record straight" about his physical qualifications...
...revolution in April 1974. The military coup against the Caetano government in Lisbon led the following year to the granting of independence to Mozambique and Angola ? something the old regime vowed would never happen. Before 1975, Mozambique and Angola were Portuguese colonies that served as bulwarks against the southward march of African nationalism; after 1975, their Marxist governments became directly involved in the black struggle to overthrow the remaining white minority regimes. In time, Mozambique cut Rhodesia off from its best rail routes to the sea, forcing it to rely exclusively on South Africa for its trade...