Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radio Foochow charged that opponents of the Cultural Revolution in that coastal city were also launching countermarches and bankrolling batches of workers on trips to Peking, ostensibly to "report conditions" but actually "to sabotage production and communication." As a result, complained the Red Guards, "the water is stirred and has become murky, and the main orientation of the struggle is changed, so that in the confusion the dreadful conse quences of this will be blamed on the revolutionary leftists"-meaning the loyal Maoists themselves...
grim, bloody and unremitting war. For the men in the field, the 48 hours of Christmas lull was hardly worth writing home about. Infantrymen and Marines kept up patrols on the ground; Navy and Coast Guard boats maintained the watch on coastal and river traffic; pilots of jets, observation planes and helicopters flew reconnaissance missions north and south of the DMZ separating the two Viet Nams. The Allies counted 122 shooting contacts with the enemy. Most of them were minor, but on Christmas Eve, one bout between Marines in Quang Nam and the Viet Cong lasted for several hours...
...ears in projects," Demirel says excitedly. "There is plenty of copper, lead and zinc in eastern Anatolia. There is some oil. There are magnificent stands of hardwood and softwood timber. Tobacco is already thriving around Izmir. There is great potential for livestock. Our Mediterranean coastal beaches could bring us $100 million a year from tourism...
Seat of Empire. In its heyday, when Hearst was in residence, San Simeon's guards kept the curious miles at bay. Entrance then was by invitation only. Today, motorists are arriving from Los Angeles and San Francisco along winding, coastal Route 1 at the rate of 435,000 a year, and the crowds are growing. On Sunday, the waiting time for visitors can stretch out to three hours-but then Hearst used to keep his editors waiting for days before they were ushered into "the Chiefs" presence...
...mountain passes (one of which, the Santa Ana canyon, gave the wind its name), where it picks up speed before roaring out into the Los Angeles basin at velocities as high as 100 m.p.h. The remainder flows over the mountains and down the western slopes. Descending toward low-lying coastal areas, the air is compressed and heated-five degrees for every 1,000 ft. of descent. As a result, the Santa Anas often bring 100° temperatures with them-though temperatures in the Great Basin where they started may have been only in the 70s or 80s at the time...