Word: coast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More of an asset are 11,000 ethnic Chinese who made their way from Vietnamese fishing villages and islands to the Chinese coast in their own fishing boats. In Beihai, on the Tonkin Gulf, 7,000 refugees are fishing in the boats that brought them, selling part of their catch to the government. Three thousand others are living in a makeshift camp comprising huts furnished with wooden slat beds, mosquito netting, a small table and, sometimes, a kerosene lamp. Conditions are crowded, but no more so than in the refugee camps of Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong. "The people here...
...Great Wall of China attracted record crowds during a coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. On a "mission of mercy" to Chad, est Founder Werner Erhard urged natives to "take responsibility for your own starvation" and was promptly eaten. Alarmed at declining election turnouts, the Administration offered free toasters to anyone who voted. Congress made 1984 the Year of the Total Recall when it ordered the return of everything manufactured...
...with Pontiac and San Francisco, court-ordered busing came to these neighboring cities on Florida's Gulf Coast in 1971. But despite a good deal of hot opposition at first, the Florida programs gamed acceptance and produced results. There were two main reasons for success. The busing plan in both cases was countywide - stretching beyond Tampa to include all the schools of Hillsborough County, and beyond St. Petersburg to all Pinellas County. That made white flight to schools beyond the district limits more difficult. Even more important, the population of both counties was not overly large, about...
...obstructing justice in the Watergate investigations. The second party featured one of Nixon's favorite teams along with 300 other guests who had in various ways been helpful at La Casa. Not the least was Garcia of San Clemente, who was Nixon's plumber on the West Coast...
...hard to find. In the Midwest or the desert, in banana republics or along the Florida gold coast, Fabian's mobile VanHome is seldom without its lady for the evening. Adolescents, sophisticates, even transsexuals are all given equal time. Yet the warning sign on Fabian's van says more about its owner than about the alarm system: SELF-REACTOR: AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY. In this picaresque, passion is reserved for the playing field. Despite his experiments with sex and drugs, Fabian truly gets high on Fabian. With characteristic insouciance, the author describes his hero's liaisons: "He found...