Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...misunderstanding psyched out the Crimson runners who ran 1-2-3 at the mile, as they followed a map which detoured them 60 yards further than the Tigers. The extra distance upset Reed Eichner in particular. After crossing the mile in second place, behind Ed Sheehan and ahead of captain Stein Rafto, he finally finished fourth for Harvard and thirteenth overall...
...guerrillas presently control all of the Ogaden, except the important towns of Harar and Dire Dawa (see map). In late August they ended a 15-day siege of the town of Jijiga (pop. 4,000) with a final push that sent 4,000 mutinous Ethiopian troops scurrying off through the nearby Marda Pass. The fighting zone is now more than 50 miles away, but dust-blown little Jijiga is not yet out of enemy range, as Correspondent Wood discovered on his visit there. "Without warning," he reports, "three Ethiopian jets suddenly screamed over the town, pumping rockets and bombs into...
...residents of Observatory Hill who originally presented the petition with more than 100 signatures in early September are trying to take advantage of a system which permits small changes in the zoning map with the approval of the council...
...bitterly that the Israelis were deliberately trying to provoke the Syrian troops in Lebanon. Since the official end of the major civil war in Lebanon last October, to avoid any such confrontation, the Israelis have stayed south of the Litani River -Israel's so-called red line (see map). There was also speculation in Damascus that the Israelis might use any response as an excuse for a pre-emptive strike against Syria. Even if they were not spoiling for a fight-and Jerusalem insisted they were not-Arabs also conjectured that Israel intended to occupy Lebanon south...
...Down-zoning is really spot-zoning," McKinnon says. He adds that to down-zone is not the proper way to use the zoning laws. Changing only a small portion of the zoning map, he maintains, is normally considered illegal, although the council has the power to grant special petitions to that effect...