Word: northeast
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...Beirut fired their weapons into the air. Others detonated grenades in empty lots, while cars roared up and down the streets flying Lebanese flags and waving huge pictures of the President-elect. Gemayel held court at the family home, a 300-year-old estate at Bikfaya in the mountains northeast of Beirut, for two days before returning to the city to consult with other Christian officials...
Bucks Harbor Air Force Station. Sitting at the base of 260-ft.-high Howard Mountain on the scenic coast of Maine 160 miles northeast of Portland, the base was abandoned by the Air Force last February and turned over to the Federal Aviation Administration and the Defense Department. The Government intends to sell off 48 acres containing 27 three-and four-bedroom ranch houses built in 1959, a barracks, a dining hall facing the ocean, a former noncommissioned officers' club and a recreation hall with a lounge, bowling alley and small indoor track. A local group known as Howard Mountain...
...part of the federally owned parkland has been hit harder than California's Angeles National Forest, 693,000 acres of rugged, thickly wooded wilderness in the San Gabriel Mountains, northeast of Los Angeles. The forest has long been a catch basin for urban crime. Says Administrative Officer Roger Fischer of the U.S. Forest Service: "It's the biggest dumping ground for dead bodies and stolen vehicles I've ever seen." During the first five months of the year, authorities reported eleven rapes, 27 aggravated assaults, 66 burglaries and 139 thefts and robberies, including 14 stolen cars...
Students at Harvard have worked with professional groups and independently on numerous projects such as coordinating teach-ins, sponsoring lectures and developing information programs that reach far beyond the University itself. In October, the Kennedy School of Government will host a weekend conference for student leaders throughout the Northeast, stressing how students can make the nuclear issue a key element in this year's congressional elections...
...went on tour for the first time last fall, visiting areas of the Northeast that did not have established theater communities...