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...embarrassment as well as consternation. As it happened, the announced merger came only a day after Libyan officials revealed that they had signed a long-term contract with Elf Aquitaine, France's state-con trolled oil company, for exploration rights covering about 6,000 sq. mi. of Libya's oil fields. It was obviously a strange thing for France to do: strike an oil deal with hostile Libya at the very time that it was encroaching on friendly Chad...
...other community schools now operate in Los Angeles, all founded since 1978, when busing was first required in the 710-sq.-mi. school district, and the average busing distance turned out to be 40 miles a day. The new schools are for the most part makeshift: no frills, no gyms, no scholarships. The Palisades Village School has no library and no cafeteria: students use the public library and eat bag lunches in the park. Teachers scrimp too, earning from $9,000 to $13,500 a year, compared with the $10,000 to $25,000 offered by the public schools...
...expensive I don't even dream about it." Though the Ursus factory provides vacation centers for its workers along the Baltic Sea or in Poland's lake district, the Karasiewiczes prefer to spend their 3½ weeks of vacation tending a 3,200-sq.-ft. plot of land, ten minutes away from their apartment, which they received free as factory workers. Says Krzysztof: "We can plant vegetables and flowers, and there is a small hut on the land where we can rest...
Central to the contradictions of the region's future is the fact that the Mountain States, unlike most of the U.S., have a huge absentee landlord: the Federal Government. Of the eight states, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, which occupy 863,524 sq. mi., an area considerably bigger than all of Western Europe, Washington owns about 80% of the resources and nearly one-half of the land. These landholdings range from 30% of Montana to 87% of Nevada. The Government is not only the largest landowner but the largest employer and the overall regulator...
...tragedy began with a single vicious convulsion that rocked Italy from the tip of the southern Mezzogiorno to the Alps. At first the destruction seemed manageable, but then, slowly, the awful magnitude of the catastrophe began to emerge. Scores of communities had been leveled across 10,000 sq. mi. of the rugged southern countryside. Whole villages were obliterated. Uncounted thousands were buried in the wreckage of their homes, churches and cafes. Delayed by impassable roads, bad weather and bureaucratic ineptitude, rescue workers took 48 hours or more to reach the most isolated hamlets. Finally the digging-out gathered momentum, unearthing...