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...eruption blew down 150 sq. mi. of timber worth about $200 million, caused an estimated $222 million in damage to wheat, alfalfa and other crops as far east as Missoula, Mont., and buried 5,900 miles of roads under ash. Clearing them could cost another $200 million. The blast created a 20-mile log jam along the Columbia River that blocked shipping between Longview, Wash., and Astoria, Ore. Volcanic mud carried by the river choked the harbor of Portland. Officials estimated that the ports would lose $5 million a day until dredges could clear a new channel through the silt...
...been slow and sporadic. Accidents similar to that in New Jersey may speed up the process. Even as Elizabeth was cleaning up after its fire, a chemical plant in neighboring Bayonne released a toxic cloud of its own and forced officials there to evacuate, temporarily, an 8-sq. -mi. industrial area...
Since the Six-Day War of 1967, Israelis have bought, expropriated or taken over roughly 30% of the West Bank's 2,200 sq. mi., including some of the most fertile farm land in the Jordan Valley. In many instances, land has been seized in the name of defense. A $300 million housing project for 20,000 Israelis is currently being built on the mountaintop of Ma'ale Adumin, thereby completing the "encirclement" of Jerusalem that successive Israeli governments have claimed as a strategic priority since the 1967 war. In other cases, little effort is made to justify...
About the only time rebel spirits flag is when they hear the helicopters, for the Soviets' control of the air is total. During the day the Kunar valley echoes with the drone of Mi-8 utility choppers shuttling men and supplies from Chaghasaray up to Asmar or down to Jalalabad. The danger increases as dusk approaches. It is then, when a man's shadow is longest, that the armor-plated Mi-24 helicopter gunships come in low on their final patrols...
Every morning, as the weak spring sunshine breaks through the mists and low clouds swathing the jagged snowcapped mountains ringing Kabul, flocks of Soviet helicopters-Mi-24 "Flying Tank" gunships and Mi-8 troop and supply carriers-lift off from the airport and roar across the city on flight paths calculated to inspire fear and respect. Thus begins the daily ritual of checking and opening the highways through Kabul Gorge, Sarobi and Jalalabad to the Khyber Pass (the east); to Ghazni and Kandahar (the south); and to the Salang Pass and the Soviet frontier (the north). Other helicopter forces...