Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designed to drive out the civilian defenders who have backed up the Iranian armed forces with guerrilla operations. The bombardment, in fact, set off a mass exodus from the Khorramshahr-Abadan area. More than 300,000 people sought refuge in the small town of Shadegan, 20 miles to the northeast. Late in the week, Iraqi forces captured Abadan's radio station, which is almost two miles outside the city, but it was not immediately clear whether the Iraqis would choose to lay a prolonged siege around the burning city and thus spare themselves infantry casualties, or assault it directly...
Just 60 miles from Kabul, in fact, in the Ghorband Valley leading to the city of Bamiyan (pop. 47,000), seesaw battles between Soviet troops and bands of insurgents are said to have caused heavy casualties on both sides. In the Panjshir Valley northeast of Kabul, the Soviets have apparently given up their attempt to dislodge the fierce mujahidin (Islamic warriors) from their strongholds. Similarly, Soviet troops have been unsuccessful in efforts to reimpose order on the lawless city of Herat in the northwest, and have only managed to maintain a tenuous and frequently interrupted hold on Kandahar...
...traditional Arab day of rest, the people of El Asnam again felt the earth move violently, not once but 20 times. The initial tremor registered 7.5 on the Richter Scale, which was slightly lower than the 7.7 recorded in September 1978, when 25,000 people were killed in northeast Iran. In El Asnam, the city was again laid waste, along with many of the farmhouses and villages in a 25-mile radius. Eyewitnesses estimated that 80% of El Asnam was destroyed; the Algerian Red Crescent initially reported that perhaps as many as 25,000 had been killed and another...
...decline has been sharpest in the Northeast and Midwest. Says Thomas Klutznick, son of Commerce Secretary Philip Klutznick and head of a development subsidiary of the Aetna Life & Casualty insurance company: "In the Chicago area, growth is static. The demand for shopping centers has tapered off." Many regions have simply become saturated with shopping malls. And because of higher gasoline prices, people now plan buying expeditions more carefully. Thus they make fewer shopping trips, especially to outlying malls...
THESE ARE THE TIMES that try men's souls," Colonel Dale Ullrich, Northeast Recruiting Group Commander, begins, citing inflation and unemployment as proof of the national troubles. "Food and clothes cost more," he continues. "We are in a time of crisis and a year of great stress for our system of government." As if that isn't enough, Ullrich observes, "The moral fiber of many of our institutions seems to have deteriorated...