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Meanwhile, Caltech seismologists warn that the Pacific Rim is only beginning its long overdue rock and roll: the Kobe catastrophe may be a 3-D preview of the Los Angeles 2000.
The world was brought to the verge of nuclear catastrophe because of a missile gap that did not exist, Turkish missiles that were not supposed to be there, and an invasion that was not coming.
An op-ed in the same paper said that whereas Thatcher's legacy has proved "positive" for the Labor Party, for the Tories it has been "little short of catastrophe."
The books use the politically verboten term Palestinian , as well as the Arab word for the 1948 war--the Naqba , or catastrophe.
It lasted until 1848, and it is estimated that more than one million people died and as many emigrated to escape the ravages of the catastrophe.