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...land where once fertile fields lie desolate and deathly still. They could be in two different worlds-and, in a sense, they are. Even the countryside outside Berlin is divided into East and West by a vicious, impenetrable hedge of rusty barbed wire and concrete. As itsnakes southward toward the partitioned city, it becomes the Wall...
...been dead has now become a live border." India tried to buy Red China off by championing its admission to the United Nations, opposed all U.N. attempts to condemn the Chinese for their conquest of Tibet. The feeble Indian good-neighbor policy only encouraged the Chinese to look southward with greater interest. "Tibet is the palm of the hand, and the Chinese have it," says one Indian. "Now they want the five fingers without which the palm is useless." The five fingers (see color map) are Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and the North East Frontier Agency. To the Chinese...
...deer season lasts for eight days; in the first four, Wisconsin counted four hunters dead of gunshot wounds, six of heart attacks. At season's end, the hunters and their red shirts disappear abruptly from Hurley's streets, vanishing southward into workaday anonymity. The girls drift away, and Hurley reverts to its somnolent tween-season existence as an iron-mining town...
...over several years, covering a broad zone around the Northern Hemisphere. If the fireball touched the ground, its local fallout would seriously contaminate a cigar-shaped region many hundreds of miles downwind. U.S. weathermen calculated that the north winds blowing just after the Soviet test would carry local fallout southward into Soviet Russia down to the latitude of Leningrad...
...Even if the blast gave no local fallout, it surely created some fission products that stayed below the stratosphere to drift with the winds of the lower atmosphere until rain or snow brought them down. By studying their charts, U.S. meteorologists figured that this cloud of tropospheric fallout moved southward into Russia, then swung eastward to cross Siberia. At week's end, it was heading across to the U.S. (see map) near Oregon and Idaho where rain was expected to wash some of its radioactive debris to earth...