Word: central
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...surprise. But as mutinous troops arrested commander after commander, a strange civilian counterpart to the revolt began to take place in key state corporations. Top officials of the water, electricity and phone companies were told by their staffs that they were no longer in charge. The governor of the Central Bank, Onill Millet, was "fired" by his employees and thrown out of the building...
Dian Fossey was a figure of the latter sort. She went to Rwanda in east- central Africa as a child of the '60s, hoping to find a bit of adventure by observing an endangered subspecies, the mountain gorilla. In 1985 she was murdered, under mysterious circumstances, at the research station she had built up for nearly 20 lonely years. In that time, an agreeable young woman became a hard, half-mad case who nonetheless saved "her" gorillas from almost certain extinction...
...life to Sudan's impoverished inhabitants. But torrential thunderstorms this summer have turned the river into a killer. More than 8 inches of rain -- twice the average for an entire year -- fell on Sudan in 13 hours last month. Meanwhile, a seasonal surge of water was heading north from central Africa. The combination sent the river raging over its banks, killing nearly 100 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless. In Khartoum, the capital, sewage-contaminated floodwater swept through squatters' camps, destroying thousands of homes. Farther north, whole villages were submerged. In the famine-stricken south, roads and rail lines were...
...plenum also named KGB chief Viktor M. Chebrikov a secretary of the Central Committee to go along with his Politburo status...
Graham's district, the 28th Middlesex, includes the Riverside and Cambridgeport neighborhoods, Central Square, parts of MIT, Adams, Dunster, Leverett and Mather Houses, Peabody Terrace and the freshman Union dorms...