Word: northeast
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...Sandinistas have helped the insurgency with their heavyhanded campaigns against the Miskito Indians and campesinos (peasant farmers). Suspecting separatist sentiments among the country's 100,000 Miskitos, most of whom live in the northeast region, Managua ordered the Indian towns burned and the villagers interned, but the measures only drove more Miskitos over to the contras. The campesinos are disgruntled by the Sandinistas' attempts to force them into communal farming; as a result, many of the 1,500 F.D.N. troops operating in the north-central section of Nicaragua are peasant farmers. Once recruited, they undergo a five-week...
...League admissions officers yesterday attributed the declines primarily to three factors the shrinking number of 18-year-olds in the country, anxiety about financial aid, and a substantial shift in the concentration of families from the Northeast and New England to the Southwest and Sun Belt states, where they are harder to reach through recruitment...
...more subtle shifts involve regionalism, ideology and experience. A continental population shift disclosed by the 1980 census created 17 new seats in the South and West, mostly taken away from the Northeast and Midwest. That was once expected to help Republicans, but Democrats proved more adept at the fine art of gerrymandering, and so they won nine of the new Sunbelt districts. Regardless of party, however, the shift in the regional balance of power will inevitably affect the way the new House squints at the nation...
...weeks ago, federal officials said that the key to their case was an unnamed "cooperating individual" who introduced De Lorean to Hetrick. The C.I. was identified last week by an anonymous caller as James Timothy Hoffman, 41, who lived not far from De Lorean's 48-acre spread northeast of San Diego. Hoffman and several other men were arrested last year and charged with conspiring to import cocaine. A Government informant had been part of that group. Hoffman, married and a father, confessed and agreed to become an informant in return for probation. His main handler: DEA Agent John...
...almost missed a plane together," Martin recalls. The 8:30 p.m. game will be Harvard's first time under the lights this year... Springfield's trip South may help its tournament chances by giving the Wildcats a chance to impress selection committee members outside of the Northeast. Aside from its pre-season trip of Ireland the Crimson has traveled no further than Philadelphia...