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...which comes mostly from Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia, is often flown northward in light aircraft from Colombia to Caribbean coasts. After landing at a Caribbean island to "cool off," the cocaine is transported by boat or plane to Florida or flown to Canada from where it is smuggled southward into the U.S. It is the amateurs who try smuggling through Mexico and who increasingly are getting caught there...
...crops. Then the rain stopped, and for well over a month now, the sun has risen like a bright brass gong in a white sky. While days, then weeks passed without rain, the sun parched the soil and left corn stalks brittle, stunted and dead. From the Dakotas southward to Texas, from Kansas east to parts of Ohio, the most baleful weather in a generation is raising the specter of economic disaster for Midwest farmers and the businessmen who depend on them. The big drought is daily diminishing what had been estimated would be a bumper yield of corn, soybeans...
Telltale signs are everywhere -from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased...
...debilitating guerrilla war continues in the northern half of the country, and the irregulars of FRELIMO seep steadily southward into areas where most of the white population of 220,000 out of a total of 8 million is concentrated. Guerrillas attacked the railway to Rhodesia for the first time this year. Only two weeks ago, they ambushed traffic on the main road linking the second city of Beira (pop. 400,000) with the capital of Lourenço Marques (pop. 700,000), killing three truck drivers. Such events temper optimism with apprehension...
...years ago, scientists began noting that the high-altitude winds that ring the North Pole have shifted south, changing weather patterns throughout the world. Part of India's monsoon rains are now dropping uselessly into the ocean. In the past six years, the Sahara has expanded 100 miles southward in some places. Scientists are baffled by the phenomenon, but some suspect it may be caused by sun spots or increased carbon dioxide and dust in the atmosphere, or a combination of both...