Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene: a road-racing course for sports cars set in wooded, rolling terrain an hour north of Atlanta. Noise, crowds, confusion, the racketing whine of unmuffled racing engines as drivers repeatedly blip their throttles in anticipation of the start. For a week now the Sports Car Club of America has been running its national championships here on the twisting 2½-mile Road Atlanta track. Paul has been here a week, and Joanne arrived a couple of days ago to join him. "We have a deal," he says. "I trade her a couple of ballets for a couple of races...
...clouds dominate the landscape throughout most of the unicorn's journey. Gorgeous natural occurrences make some scenes--rain falls onto rushing rapids, or an ancient castle totters over the edge of a tremendous precipice. The occassional glimpses, though, don't compensate for the monotomy of the rest of the terrain...
...Amara. There, beginning on Nov. 1, an Iranian force of about 20,000, mostly fanatical Islamic Guard units and including some basij, or groups of teen-age zealots, staged a new offensive. Attacking at night to neutralize Iraq's overwhelming air superiority, and sticking to the high, steep terrain that favors Iranian manpower over Iraqi firepower, they claim to have captured 210 sq. mi. of territory, killing 6,100 Iraqi defenders and taking 3,400 prisoners. The attackers penetrated three to six miles into Iraq, seizing positions within shelling range of a strategically important highway linking Baghdad...
...natural gas pipeline the Soviets are building from Siberia to Western Europe threatened to spoil Shultz's dinner with French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. "Obviously they were not going to sort it out over pate," said one U.S. official. So Shultz shifted the discussions to the broader terrain of East-West economic relations and sounded out Cheysson on what Western strategy ought to be. Said a Shultz aide: "He is taking it to a deeper level than a shouting match among allies. Cheysson was very responsive...
Camp David is truly beautiful, with the cottages and paths snuggled on top and down one side of a small mountain, sheltered by a thick growth of stately oak, poplar, ash, locust, hickory and maple trees. A security fence encompasses about 125 acres of rocky terrain, and the close proximity of the living quarters engenders an atmosphere of both isolation and intimacy, conducive to easing tension and encouraging informality...