Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican right wing that loyally supported Reagan was very much in control of the Detroit convention?of its machinery, its rules and its platform. The Sunbelt's polyester suits and white cowboy hats and STOP ERA buttons far outnumbered the striped ties and horn-rimmed glasses of the Northeast. Recognizing that there was no way to wrest back the control that had once been theirs, the moderates simply sat back and watched the show. Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte, a liberal firebrand on the platform committee at five previous conventions, backed out of serving on the panel this year. Said...
...took her a while to gather up some stories to tell. After just a few months at Brigham Young, she hitched northeast to Minnesota and got a job as a short-order cook in a joint where she could sing when business was slow. She dyed her sandy hair black, put on some weight and tried to sing like Joan Baez. "I sang foul, I looked foul," she says. Her folks found her and brought her home...
...what? No one could say. And, even more puzzling to the people of the northeast Texas farm town was Alvin Lee King himself. Raised in Corpus Christi by parents who owned a liquor store, pawnshop and jukebox leasing company, King came to Daingerfield in 1966 with Wife Gretchen, Daughter Cynthia and Son Alvin Lee King IV to teach high school math. That same year, while King was visiting his parents in Corpus Christi, he was examining a 12-gauge shotgun when it somehow discharged, killing his father. The coroner ruled the death accidental...
When Indian border forces arrived ten hours later, they found 350 bodies stacked in heaps along a narrow strip of road. It was one of the worst outbreaks of communal violence in a decade and another tragic demonstration of the strife that has long plagued India's northeast territories. The death toll from the massacres at Mandai and other villages is expected to reach at least...
...natural and man-made factors have combined most disastrously in Karamoja, a Vermont-sized rangeland in Uganda 200 miles northeast of Kampala. Since the downfall of Amin last year, Karamoja has turned into a surrealistic terror, as heavily armed marauders led by remnants of the fallen dictator's army swoop down on villages in search of food. While stealing it, they often kill every man, woman and child in sight. After almost a dozen relief workers were murdered, CARE and other agencies considered suspending their operations until some semblance of order could be restored. The troops dispatched...