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...Libyans and the rebels push southward, as they appear ready to do, and if the French avoid direct involvement in the conflict, Habré's government will surely fall. On the other hand, if Gaddafi should decide to keep his troops in northern Chad, the country could face de facto partition. That might be a relatively painless solution to the present crisis, but it would set a dangerous precedent for an unstable continent where the rule has long been to honor the boundaries inherited from colonial times. -By William E. Smith. Reported by John Borrell/N'Djamena and Thomas...
...effort to divert the magma, Italy's minister of civil protection summoned a team of volcanologists. The strategy: to redirect the lava from its southward path into a wide hollow, away from inhabited areas. The specialists hoped that spreading the lava would speed its cooling, and thus slow the momentum of the flow. The diversion required the removal of a 25-ft. section in a 328-ft.-long natural wall of old lava, and was to be accomplished by precision blasting...
...NCAA tournament which starts Saturday is made up of 16 teams selected from colleges across the country. Harvard was picked for the northeast region bid after beating Yale, the second ranked team, last month Eight members of Harvard's team will make the southward journey...
...storm started in the Gulf of Alaska and lumbered southward toward California, gaining force and intensity. By the time it punched into the coast of the nation's most populous state at midweek, it carried driving rains, 15-ft. waves and 50-m.p.h. winds. The raging surf and rain washed away beaches and chunks of highways, sent mud cascading down hillsides and shattered piers and houses. During one eleven-hour stretch, Los Angeles got two inches of rain. "We usually don't get two inches of rain in a month," said National Weather Service Specialist Frankie Shaw...
...they would raise river levels a section at a time, until the water no longer reached the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean. The builders would also erect colossal dikes across the mouths of the rivers, creating great fresh-water bays. The first northern water should begin flowing southward into the Volga through a network of canals and reservoirs by the late 1980s...