Word: easterlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Force can barely find enough planes to accommodate all the members of Congress heading for distant parts of the world during the Easter recess. House Speaker Tip O'Neill is leading one group to Ireland; House Whip John Brademas is taking another to the Soviet Union. Members of the House Narcotics Committee are on their way to sunny Colombia. So many Congressmen are traveling to China that a quorum call might just succeed in Peking. The Easter recess, in fact, is turning out to be considerably more lively than the session, which so far has set a record unmatched...
...Somoza Debayle to his opponents in the Sandinista National Liberation Front, usually tries to go on vacation in Holy Week. The traditional holiday was shattered last week by a bloody eruption of the country's sputtering civil war. Discarding a truce they had announced for the week before Easter, 100 battle-hardened guerrillas took up positions in trenches and behind concrete barricades in the city of Esteli (pop. 25,000), where hundreds died in the bloodiest fighting of last September's Sandinista uprising. They were quickly joined by young protesters, who pledged to fight to the last...
...HIGH WILL the numbers of murders have to climb before Boston's black community can live in peace and safety? This Easter, Darlene Rogers became the seventh black victim since January in a series of murders the Boston police say are not related...
DIED. Luscious ("Luke") Easter, 63, big (6 ft. 4½ in.), fence-busting first baseman for the Cleveland Indians (1949-54) and one of the first blacks to play in baseball's major leagues; of gunshot wounds inflicted by two robbers who shot him as he left a bank with the payroll for his co-workers at the TRW Inc. plant where he was a union steward; in Euclid, Ohio...
...April 6, 1969, Easter Sunday, two canoes set out on the Russian River, a few miles east of Guerneyville in Northern California. The river was running very high and very fast. The group travelled about a mile without incident until, while rounding a turn in the stream, both canoes struck a tree that had been mostly obscured by the flood. The lead canoe tipped its passengers and then righted itself, floating out of reach of the boaters. The second wrapped itself around the tree and stayed there, a bizarre Christmas ornament one holiday late. Rescuers in Guerneyville picked up five...