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...problem began last April, when U.S. officials asked the Canadians for permission to test unarmed cruise missiles at the Primrose Lake test range in northeastern Alberta. The Pentagon argued that the region's vast stretches of snow-covered wasteland made it similar to Siberia and thus a suitable proving ground for the missile's sophisticated terrain-reading equipment. Trudeau tentatively agreed to the proposal. But the news was leaked to a Canadian reporter in Washington, and it ended up on the front page of newspapers across Canada. In the uproar that followed, Trudeau hastily denied any binding commitment...
...hostile wasteland of flat sands and marching dunes, where the temperatures have soared to 122° F, and the rain falls only once in 30 to 50 years. But for thousands of years, there have been tales that the Sahara's arid surface concealed a "large river without water." Last week a team of scientists from the U.S. and Egypt announced that they had definitive evidence that long ago a region of the vast desert in southern Egypt and northern Sudan was a lacy network of major water ways. The proof: radar images of the Sahara taken...
Television has this strange habit of doing its best in the off-hours. To culture critics denouncing TV's wasteland, the explanation is simple: whatever is aimed at mass audiences is inevitably broader, shallower and shoddier...
Perhaps the only oasis in the world economic wasteland is the far-eastern rim of Asia. By selling high-quality products at low prices, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong have garnered prodigious growth and captured hefty shares of the world markets for autos, steel, shipbuilding, electronics and clothing. Nonetheless, sluggish growth in the West has started to cut into the demand for Asian exports. Moreover, tightening trade restrictions pose a threat to Asian economies. Japan, for example, had to curb its car exports to the U.S. and several European countries, after having been threatened with quotas...
...weeks. Instead, the Defense Minister, General Jose Guillermo Garcia, decided to commit crack regiments to chase after guerrillas in Morazan. "It was a stupid, macho decision," said a Western ambassador in San Salvador. "They have to clean out the vital areas of the country before going up into that wasteland...