Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FIFTY-FOUR WEEKS AGO, 376 days ago, 12 1/2 months ago, three American nuns and an American missionary left El Salvador International Airport in a white Toyota van, bound, as it turned out, for a shallow grave 15 miles to the northeast. Though the National Guard had claimed thousands of victims in the years and months before, the point blank shots to the back of the head that killed the four churchwomen were, for the war in El Salavador, the shots heard round the world, or at least the Western Hemisphere...
...handling of the air-traffic controllers' strike. When negotiations failed, the Federal Aviation Administration, which he oversees, managed to keep air traffic moving. Less visibly, Lewis has worked to get the Government out of the railway business and eventually divest itself of the Conrail freight line in the Northeast. He is also working to cut back federal subsidies for Amtrak passenger trains and for local transit systems. Many may strongly oppose his programs, but almost all who have dealt with him admire his effectiveness and his attention to political sensitivities. A possible candidate for promotion to a more important...
...discussions, coordinated by the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) and Marlyn M. Lewis, assistant dean of the College, will kick off a federally funded national campaign against harassment of women. The project this spring will include ten regional workshops--the Northeast workshop will probably be held at Harvard--and the production of a leaflet on sexual harassment, which will be distributed nationwide, Sharon J. Orr '83, an RUS member, said this week...
...continuing resolution that the President's aides calculated would mean spending $8 billion more than Reagan wanted. It was the President's first significant congressional defeat, and it came about because the once solid Republican lines in the House broke. Eighteen Republicans from the Northeast and Midwest, part of a group that has nicknamed itself the Gypsy Moths, voted against the President because they feared further reductions in social services that their constituents value...
...week's end, 850 members of the 82nd Airborne Division parachuted into the Egyptian desert near Cairo West in a mock assault. In subsequent days and weeks, across the expanse of northeast Africa, other exercises will range from the field testing of water purification systems to full-scale U.S.-Egyptian army exercises. The most spectacular event will occur on Nov. 24, when six B-52 bombers, flying from North Dakota bases and refueled three times in midair, will skim across the Egyptian desert at an altitude of a few hundred feet and drop live bombs (see map), a feat...