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...military operation began with the muster of several thousand troops in Mexico City's Zocalo. About 600 motorcycle troopers, able to dodge debris on otherwise closed streets, fanned out for a quick survey of the extent of the catastrophe. The army also made available 500 trucks to transport rescue workers from one site to another. Patrolling troops warned residents against lighting matches or smoking in neighborhoods where gas lines had ruptured. Water and food supplies appeared adequate, although distribution was far from normal. Even so, many poor residents began filling plastic pails with water as a precaution against possible shortages...
...commercial service to send troops to the Falkland Islands in 1982, the Soviets moved in and in two years upped their share of the British cruise market from 10% to 42%. In France, about 80% of imported oil is carried by Soviet tankers, while French ships transport less than 1%. Even the Japanese have been hurt. Since 1981, the Soviets have snatched an estimated 10% of the cargo trade between Japan, Australia and New Zealand...
...Rumanian scholar Mircea Eliade made the distinction between a people's "profane time" and its "sacred time." In sacred time, he thought, deeds done in historical time partake of the permanence of myth. In his dying hours on Mount McGregor, Grant labored to transport the Civil War, and himself, into sacred time. The war arrived there intact. Grant, however, has remained in a dusk somewhere between myth and Galena...
...expulsion of 700,000 illegal immigrants from neighboring African states, jailed hundreds of political opponents and muzzled a once aggressive press. He also soured Nigeria's relations with its former colonial master, Britain, with a clumsy attempt in July 1984 to kidnap President Shagari's brother-in-law, former Transport Minister Umaru Dikko, and ship him from London to Lagos in a wooden crate...
...country's woes. In 1983 alone, according to Oil Minister Tam David-West, $1 billion in petroleum was secretly diverted from state oil terminals to foreign tankers, with Nigerian businessmen and politicians taking the profits. Some reports say $1 million a day was skimmed from the public treasury. Transport Minister Dikko reportedly amassed a $1 billion fortune, much of it outside the country...