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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hassan had been preparing his move even before the International Court of Justice ruled that Morocco had not proved its "ties of territorial sovereignty" over the 103,000-sq.-mi. land, which has, outside of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., perhaps 20% of the world's phosphates. All last week a fleet of nearly 8,000 trucks rumbled toward Tarfaya, Morocco's southernmost city, with cargoes that included 42,580 tons of water, food and fuel, along with blankets and tents. Overhead, army helicopters scattered back and forth watching for emergencies, as the never-ending column rolled through...
...Eden is, in fact, more like Dante's Inferno. Its surface temperature is a hellish 900° F. Its atmosphere, consisting largely of carbon dioxide, is at least 90 times as thick as the earth's, producing crushing surface pressures of 1,500 Ibs. per sq. in. Its clouds are laden with sulfuric acid. Yet a major mystery remains: Why has a planet so like the earth in size, mass and density evolved in such a dramatically different...
...disputes between nations. Last week the World Court came through with a decision that was so Solomonic in adjudicating territorial claims that four countries-Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria and Spain-may soon be at one another's throats.The area in dispute is the Spanish Sahara, a barren, 103,000-sq.-mi. piece of land on the coast of North Africa that has nothing to recommend it but 10 billion tons of phosphate underground...
...enterprising cox from the Niagara District Rowing Club decided her boot could make much better time if it simply hooked onto the MIT boat just a head of them, a power five, and bow and stern suddenly became one and the same, to the indignation of the Kendall Sq. crowd...
Five years ago, space in midtown buildings was renting for $9 to $14 per sq. ft.; today the cost is down...