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...mile-long island, which lies just 105 miles southeast of Nice, is little more than scenery. The snow-topped mountainous spine of Corsica is traversed only by a Toonerville-style railroad, the Micheline, which looks out on ruined citadels, deserted villages and scarred forests. Once rich in timber (pine, chestnut, cork trees), Corsica has been hard-hit by forest fires. Population has drained from 300,000 in the 1870s to 170,000 today. Ajaccio, the capital, is a cluster of quaint but quaking buildings, though a scattering of new apartments is rising beyond the old perimeter...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC. 5-6:30 p.m.). World Roller Skating championships in Madrid and the World Timber Carnival in Albany...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). World Roller Skating championships in Madrid and the World Championship Timber Carnival in Albany...
DAVE JAMES Director of Public Affairs Simpson Timber Co. Seattle...
...paddled to safety girdled by an inner tube. Telephone service and power distribution blacked out. Scores of boats, from big freighters to cabin cruisers, ran aground or broke up. As the floods receded, they left a soggy jumble of ruined cars, fallen trees and utility lines, splintered glass and timber. Sobbed one homeless house wife: "Everything is gone. I don't even have a pair of shoes...