Word: ky
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closed, 7,700 people were rescued from snowbound cars. Governor Rhodes declared a state of emergency and called out 2,500 National Guardsmen to help with rescue efforts. President Carter declared Ohio a federal disaster area. With that, soldiers from the 101st Airborne were rushed in from Fort Campbell, Ky., to help the exhausted Guard. Ten helicopters lifted hundreds of motorists to safety...
...propaganda war was just as intense. Phnom-Penh accused its neighbors in Viet Nam of destroying Cambodian rubber plantations, burning forests, seizing cattle and poultry, even "raping and killing our women in crueler manner than the Thieu-Ky and South Korean mercenary troops of the past." Hanoi charged that Cambodia's Khmer Rouge guerrillas had made incursions into Viet Nam and had looted and sacked its pagodas, schools and hospitals. Far worse, it accused the guerrillas of "raping, tearing fetuses from mothers' wombs, disemboweling adults and burning children alive." Were it not for the fact that thousands...
...Hungarian nationhood, the priceless gold crown is fitted with rubies, and displays exquisitely detailed enamel portraits. Scholars say that Pope Sylvester II gave the treasure to Hungary's first King, Stephen I, for a Christmas gift in the year 1000. It has been stored at Fort Knox, Ky., after it was handed over to U.S. troops at the end of World War II by a Hungarian colonel charged with its custody...
...beyond Jan. 1. Some retirees take grim satisfaction in the fact that they contracted black lung, a generally incurable disease caused by inhaling coal dust. That ailment guarantees them lifelong disability payments. "If we lost our pension, I could survive," says Ashland ("Hawk") Howard, 62, a retiree in David, Ky. "But if I did not collect for black lung, I'd really be in trouble." Howard gets a pension of $225 a month and a disability payment...
Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus had a more convenient audience, a conference of coal producers in Louisville, Ky., to argue that Carter's energy program envisions "coal as America's ace in the hole that will win us the energy game in the years immediately ahead." Since some 16% of U.S. petroleum fuel is used in farming, Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland is having no problem working plugs into upcoming speeches to rural audiences. One of his suggestions: the use of solar power to heat hen houses. Vice President Walter Mondale joined the parade with a pitch...