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...California at Davis, revealed a key piece of new evidence. On the shore of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, the scientists had tentatively identified an ancient rock formation known as the Grenville Belt, which runs from northern Canada along the eastern seaboard and then dips out of sight in southwestern Texas. This geologic connection, combined with some data from the magnetic orientation of ancient rocks, suggests that Antarctica, as well as Australia, was shoved up against the western coast of North America late in the Precambrian period (from 1 billion to 570 million years ago) as part of the original...
...eight-day lapse between the Army and Penn games allows the Crimson to make its annual trip to Arizona. Aside from enjoying the sunny Southwestern weather, Harvard will scrimmage several club teams during its week-long stay...
Later on G day, another Saudi force crossed into southwestern Kuwait, paralleling an Egyptian-led thrust. The 38,500 Egyptians, second in number only to Saudi Arabia's 40,000 among the allies, ran into Saddam's dreaded oil- filled fire trenches, according to Schwarzkopf; though the trenches were not aflame, it was a position the general called "not a fun place to be." Behind Egypt's two-division tank and paratroop contingents was the 19,000-man Syrian 9th Armored Division, with its 270 Soviet-made T-62 tanks. The two- pronged Arab attack took out Iraqi defenders...
...embattled President could also claim some success in easing tensions in the southwestern republic of Moldavia. Russian and Turkic minorities have tried to set up independent states there in opposition to a republican government that is dominated by the Romanian-speaking majority. In Kishinev, Moldavia's capital, the parliament bowed to an ultimatum from Gorbachev and agreed to reconsider laws promoting rights for ethnic Moldavians; in return, the parliament was assured that local secessionists would halt their efforts to splinter the republic...
...another swarm of intruders has crashed through America's porous Southwestern border: so-called killer bees. Last week the Department of Agriculture spotted the first incursion on U.S. soil of Africanized bees, originally imported to Brazil from Africa in 1957 for a breeding experiment. All the bees were trapped east of Hidalgo in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and promptly destroyed...