Word: northeast
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Kennedy has proposed are unrealistic and actually fuel inflation," says Woodward. More specifically, the Carter people try to emphasize recent executive accomplishments, such as civil service reform and the creation of the Department of Education, while reminding voters that Carter has so far fulfilled his vow to supply the Northeast with home heating oil for the winter...
...Democratic side in the Northeast, strategists for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) expect their man to lose New Hampshire and win his home state. Kennedy has to win Massachusetts, Rick Stearns, Kennedy's director of delegate selection, says, declining to specify by how much. Kennedy will do well in New Hampshire "only if a miracle happens," Stearns says...
...TIME by the research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc. The telephone poll of 1,227 registered voters includes a special sampling of 300 in the New England states, to measure the candidates' relative strengths as the focus of the presidential campaign swings into the Northeast...
Meanwhile, the war continued in Afghanistan. The six divisions that the Soviet Union threw into the country, which have an estimated strength of about 92,000 men, have maintained control over population centers, but fighting was reported last week in the northeast and northwest sections. Soviet correspondents reported that saboteurs were blowing up bridges and communications lines in several regions, forcing the Afghan army to remain on constant alert. Pravda admitted that the Afghan "bandits," as it refers to the rebels, remained active, adding: "Storm clouds hang over the republic from the Pakistani and the Chinese sides of the border...
...west at Shindand. One of the four armored divisions, equipped with heavy T-72 tanks and BMP and BMD armored personnel carriers, was also dug in near Kabul; the three others were fanned out at Kandahar in the south, Herat in the northwest and Kunduz in the northeast. American intelligence experts were puzzled by one facet of the Soviet deployment: each division had a full complement of chemical-biological-radiological warfare decontamination units. The most plausible explanation seemed to be that the decontamination units were regularly assigned to the divisions and, in the methodical Soviet way, had to go with...