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...sailors crisscrossing the northern reaches of the Sea of Japan last week had a name for the risky face-offs: "chicken of the sea." The seamen were aboard a seven-ship U.S. task force that was systematically sweeping a 350-sq.-mi. area of the cold, choppy international waters slightly more than twelve miles from the Soviet Union's Moneron Island and 100 miles northeast of Japan. Hard by the U.S. ships-and sometimes directly under their bows-was a fleet of as many as 40 Soviet vessels, including a missile cruiser, oceanographic ships, trawlers and specialized salvage ships...
Around the runways of Beirut's international airport, the low, sandbagged bunkers form ragged lines, cluttering a 2½-sq.-mi. stretch of barren, unprotected ground. On two sides the old airport fence topped with barbed wire divides the encampment from the predominantly Shi'ite shantytown of Hay es Sullum, where bombed-out buildings sometimes shelter Muslim fighters armed with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. In the surrounding hills that rise 3,000 ft. from the plain, Druze and Christian militias clash, igniting the night skies with tracer rounds and exploding shells...
...head of a "pro-Libyan lobby,"Habré said after the meeting that his relations with France were "clear and unambiguous."Habré, 41, a wiry man with fierce brown eyes, reserved his harshest words for Gaddafi, who in 1973 seized and annexed a 44,000-sq.-mi. stretch of northern Chad known as the Aozou Strip. SaidHabré: "Libya now occupies half of Chad. Gaddafi wants to annex Chad, and that is that...
...bidding for tracts in the 58,000-sq.-mi. area in the Yellow and South China seas has consumed 18 months and attracted 33 companies, including 16 from the U.S. In May a group headed by British Petroleum won the first contract. The Occidental-led group is expected to spend $120 million on exploration. If it is successful in discovering commercial quantities of crude, the production contract will run for 15 years; China will get up to 51% of the proceeds...
...North Sea field. But for technical and political reasons China cannot maintain production from its existing wells, much less develop these huge crude reserves by itself. Last year China signed a separate joint-development contract with Atlantic Richfield, which has already begun test drilling in a 3,500-sq.-mi. block off the coast of Viet...