Word: hinterlands
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...hinterland, the hinterland...
...great has been the population flow toward the city that entire hinterland villages stand vacant or nearly so. About 120,000 people from outlying provinces move to Athens every year, with the result that 40% of Greece's citizenry are now packed into the capital. The migrants come for the few available jobs, which are usually no better than the ones they fled. At the current rate of migration, Athens by the year 2000 will have a population of 6.5 million, more than half the nation...
...have attracted him was that we had said we wanted to use cooperatives as the basis for the establishment of socialism, and maybe his idea of setting up a commune meshed with that." Guyana had its own motives in making the commune welcome: it wanted immigrants to develop its hinterland and fortify its border with Venezuela. For the Americans, Guyana offered the additional advantage of being an English-speaking country...
...produce a more potent drug for medical use), Dr. Krikor Grotrian makes a deal to sell the seeds to an Armenian dealer, who smuggles them into Turkey. There, largely because they bear scarlet blooms rather than the more common white petals of opium flowers, they flourish undetected in the hinterland. What Grotrian does not realize is that heroin from his little flowers causes instant, hideous death. In England alone, more than 500 addicts are wiped out by the new-strain Turkish dope...
Within the hinterland of Paraguay, which contains many large German-owned farms, Mengele moves about a great deal. No matter how safe their sanctuary may seem to be, old Nazis live in constant anxiety. Says Wiesenthal: "That is a part of their punishment." Mengele travels in a black Mercedes 2805L, escorted by four armed guards. Even before entering the home of a German acquaintance, two guards approach it first and make sure it is safe before signaling an all clear on their walkie-talkies to the guards who remain with Mengele...