Word: easterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eastern squads will face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the playoffs. The Dodgers clinched the Western Division Sunday...
Politics and nature combined to batter Iran cruelly last week. In a mountainous farm region in eastern Iran, the strongest earthquake recorded anywhere in 1978 reduced villages to what one survivor called "a mound of rubble, bent iron beams and dirt." At least 9,000 were feared dead in the quake, which measured 7.7 on the Richter scale and was centered near the town of Tabas...
...camps in Zambia. Besides an estimated 10,000 fully trained guerrillas in Nkomo's army, hundreds more are arriving weekly by way of neighboring Botswana. The newcomers are screened and given some rudimentary training at a major transit camp in Zambia before being sent on to Angola or Eastern Europe for further instruction. Nkomo heatedly denies Rhodesian charges that the young blacks are forced to join his organization at gunpoint. "That's just nonsense," he says. "We have more people than we need or can cope with efficiently...
Although the Today Show told the nation Wednesday morning that Edward J. King's victory was an Eastern ripple effect from the tidal wave of California's Proposition 13, enough local commentators have since correctly assessed King's victory as a mere confirmation of the intensity of the contempt with which Massachusetts liberals hold Michael Dukakis...
...January the two countries reportedly will attempt to set the air and sea bounderies between the Eastern Greek islands and the Turkish mainland...