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Patent number 4,686,605 issued on August 11, 1987 to Bernard J. Eastlund and assigned to ARCO subsidiary ARCO Power Technologies Inc. claims that the device described therein can be made to “cause total disruption of communications over a very large portion of the Earth…disrupting not only land-based communications, but also airborne communications and sea communications (both surface and subsurface)…missile or aircraft destruction, deflection, or confusion…weather modification…by altering solar absorption…ozone, nitrogen, etc.

concentrations could be artificially increased”.

The patent references two articles from the New York Times about Tesla from December 8, 1915 and September 22, 1940.

Fiji experiences two military coups in 1987.

New Caledonia, one of the premier nickel producers in the world, also exports cobalt, chrome, iron, manganese, lead, copper, silver and gold, as well as a variety of agricultural products.

In 1987, voters elect not to become independent.

Kanak separatists boycott a 1987 New Caledonian referendum on independence that “ratifies” French rule.

The exiled Kanaky (their name for New Caledonia) resistance movement reeives support form the progressive goverment of the island nation of Vanuatu.

The CIA, characterizing Vanuatu as the victim of “Libyan subversion”, channels funds into destablizing Vanuatu’s government.

The Fijian electorate replaces the pro-US government with a progressive coalition in the 1987 elections.

CIA “coup experts”, including the head of the World Anti-Communist League, visit Fiji.

A CIA-backed coup deposes the popularly elected government within a month.

The new ruling junta purchases a number of US military helicopters.

The ALP, with Hawke still premier, continues to hold power after the 1987 elections.

Conservative and fundamentalist groups begin to wield significant influence over governments in Asia, Africa and the United States.

Conservative and fundamentalist groups influence governments in Asia, Africa and the United States.

The 1987 sale of Van Gogh’s Irises, to a Japanese collector for 53.9 million dollars, exemplifies the thorough internationalization of the art market.

Despite renewals of the official cease-fire, Afghan resistance to the Soviet presence continues, and the effects of the war are felt in neighboring countries: Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iran now number in the millions.

Morale in the Afghan military is low.

Men are drafted only to desert at the earliest opportunity, and the Afghan military drops from its 1978 strength of 105,000 to about 20,000-30,000 by 1987.

On July 20, 1987, Najibullah meets with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to discuss the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.

On November 30, a new constitution returns the name of the country to the Republic of Afghanistan and permits other political parties to participate in the government.

The flag retains the basic black-red-green horizontal tricolor motif, but the arms lose the image of the open Qu'ran and the five-pointed red star.

Najibullah is elected to the newly strengthened post of president.

He proposes another cease-fire, but the mujahideen refuse to deal with a "puppet government".

Active and potential conflict continues to be a constant factor in Pakistan's relations with India.

The dispute over the precise demarcation of the Line of Control in Kashmir heats up periodically and, over time, causes substantial casualties on both sides because of numerous small skirmishes and the extreme cold in the remote area.

In addition, in the 1986-87 winter, the Indian army conducts Operation Brass Tacks, maneuvers close to the Pakistan border, and Pakistan mobilizes its forces.

However, the dangerous situation is defused, and no hostilities take place.

India accuses Pakistan of aiding Sikh insurgents in India's state of Punjab.

Pakistan denies this accusation, but some observers think that Operation Brass Tacks might have been a means to strike at alleged bases in Pakistan's Punjab Province.

Zia skillfully handles the diplomacy during the period of tension.

In February 1987, Zia visits New Delhi a second time, having invited himself to see a cricket match between India and Pakistan.

Veiled threats by Turkey to resolve the Bulgarian Muslim issue by force cause alarm in Bulgaria in 1987.

The outburst of pro-Turkish and Bulgarian nationalist rhetoric that follows the fall of the BCP (Bulgarian Communist Party) regime, which has been willing to suppress ethnic unrest by force, raises ethnic tensions in a period when central government control over society has substantially decreased.

Within Yugoslavia, resentment of Serbia grows when Slobodan Milosevic begins stirring up Serbian nationalism in 1987.

Milosevic was born in Pozarevac, Yugoslavia, in 1941; both his father, who was an Orthodox priest, and his mother, a teacher, committed suicide.

Milosevic had joined the Communist Party when he was 18, received a law degree from the University of Belgrade in 1964, and during the 1960s and '70s had held a number of positions in local and national government.

He became head of the Belgrade Communist Party in 1984, and in 1987 becomes head of the League of Communists of Serbia.

His rally of protesting Serbs in Kosovo transforms him from a relatively obscure bureaucrat into a hero of Serbian nationalists.

Later this year he deposes the president of Serbia, Ivan Stambolic, who had been his mentor.

He immediately revokes the autonomy of the provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo.