Word: localism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Among the soldiers and civilians who watched the mushroom clouds erupt over Nevada and Utah in the 1950s and early 1960s there has been a disturbingly high incidence of cancer, notably leukemia. Convinced that the disease resulted from radiation exposure, hundreds of veterans or their families, as well as local residents, have filed claims against the Government for millions of dollars in damages...
...more worried Two weeks ago, Thailand repatriated 42,000 Cambodian refugees at gunpoint, sending them back across the border to face turmoil and perhaps death. In Hong Kong, 2,664 Vietnamese who have been stranded aboard the freighter Skyluck for five months staged a hunger strike to protest the local government's refusal to allow them ashore...
...Soviet archaeologists conjecture that the buried nobles of Shibarghan were members of a local ruling family in the midst of this dark period. One sign of kinship: two skeletons bore rings of identical design. Sarianidi's theory is that a family patriarch stumbled upon the long buried temple and appropriated it as a royal necropolis. For 200 years successive generations were apparently buried at the unmarked site, probably by night to outwit grave robbers...
...General Telephone & Electronics, which has been drawing down a huge letter of credit for services rendered on a $700 million project to modernize Iran's telephone system. A team of GTE negotiators had believed they were making progress toward an amicable settlement. But then GTE's local client, state-owned Telecommunications Company of Iran, sued to halt payments on the outstanding credit to GTE worth $194 million, charging that the company had installed inoperative equipment...
...page draft of the Central Committee's instructions for local coverage of the papal visit has been smuggled out of Poland. Though the document may have been amended in later drafts, it betrays a remarkable obsession with detail and provides a rare glimpse into the backstage workings of a state-controlled press...