Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FILMING PARTS of The Boston Strangler in Cambridge last spring created a minor diversion to spark up the otherwise dull life of many a resident of the City. Middle-aged men and women gathered around a small drugstore near the eastern end of Cambridge St. to vie for walk-on parts in the film, strolled past Simeone's for a glimpse of Tony Curtis slurping a plate of spaghetti, and gossiped endlessly about the trial of a self-confessed strangler--Albert DeSalvo--in an East Cambridge courtroom. But now that the completed film blares out on the screen...
...BRUTAL civil war in Nigeria is slowly dragging to a close. Little remains of the secessionist Eastern Region--Biafra. In just a few months, probably, all rebel territory will belong to the Federal Republic. Even then, though, some fighting will continue. Guerrilla units are operating behind federal lines, and they have been since August...
...massive anti-Ibo riots in Hausa territory, the association between the massacres and government policy seemed obvious to leaders among the Ibo. Odumegwu Ojukwu, then the Governor of East Central State, which is Ibo, issued a call for all his tribesmen to return to the safety of their Eastern homeland, deported all non-Ibos, and seceded...
Cambridge officials leading the City's fight against the proposed Inner Belt highway yesterday attacked a new transportation plan for Eastern Massachusetts that recommends building the Belt as part of a $576.9 million "short range" transit program...
Justin M. Gray, assistant to the City Manager for Community Development, said yesterday that the Eastern Massachusetts Regional Planning Project transportation study had made no real evaluation of the need for the Inner Belt--which would displace at least 1200 Cambridge families--yet the study still urged the building of the Belt...