Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violence now threatens to spread beyond Nicaragua's borders, into the hills of neighboring Costa Rica where Somoza's planes and artillery have been hitting alleged rebel bases. Costa Rica, which until this year relied primarily on a small civilian defense force, has reportedly begun purchasing weapons from abroad. The possibility exists that Venezuala (who cut off Nicaragua's oil shipments during the fighting in the fall) and the pro-Somoza governments of Guatemala and El Salvador could become involved in the conflict...
Cradled between the Sierra Nevada on the east and the Diablo Range on the west, California's San Joaquin Valley is a farmer's paradise spread across an earthly 8.5 million acres. Its fertile soil yields tomatoes, sugar beets, grapes, hay, cotton and, usually, heavenly revenues (1977 total: $4.76 billion). Yet most of the valley gets less than 10 in. of rainfall a year; farmers import nearly 60% of their water. Now the water that has helped create the paradise is threatening to ruin...
...aircraft spread disease...
Rondle's theory grew out of a chance conversation with a pilot friend, who asked if the venting of dirty water from handbasins in aircraft lavatories during flight (a common airline practice) could spread disease-causing bacteria. Intrigued, Rondle decided to investigate. He picked cholera as a potential airborne culprit because public health agencies keep close tabs on the disease. Thus when he traced regular aircraft routes between Calcutta, where cholera is endemic, and Western Europe, he found that the unexplained cholera cases had invariably occurred along or near these pathways...
Rondle concedes that his bacterial "bombs" are still only theoretical, yet he feels that they bear watching. Says he: "If cholera can be spread even only occasionally by effluent from aircraft, then close investigation should be made of the possibility of other bacteria and viruses being spread in a similar...