Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months the Thai government has been trying to come to grips with the sporadic Communist terrorism along the country's northeast frontier with Laos. Bangkok has devoted less attention to a similar but smaller wave of trouble far to the south, along the thin isthmus of Thailand that forms part of the Malay Peninsula. There, a pattern of forced "tax" collections, Red propaganda leaflets and occasional clashes with police patrols has suggested the presence of a regular second front of Communist guerrillas...
When Brazil's army overthrew Leftist João Goulart in 1964, the generals declared war on Communism, corruption and - it would almost seem - the Roman Catholic Church. Fearful that Brazil's liberal, reform-minded church was spreading agitation in the depressed Northeast, the generals hauled in priests and bishops alike for questioning, forced several into "voluntary" exile, and cracked down on such "subversive" church organizations as labor syndicates and classes to teach adults to read...
That was too much for Fourth Army Commander General Damasceno Portugal, the top officer in the Northeast. Portugal promptly prohibited Recife newspapers from publishing the statement, ordered up an editorial attack on Cámara. Meantime, one of his trusted local commanders sent out secret circulars to Northeast churchmen branding Dom Helder an "agitator of men and ideas" and a "leftist"-and even accusing him of promoting the development of the rival Anglican Church. Cámara's response was to demand television time so that he and his bishops could prove they were not Communists. Snapped Bishop Antonio...
...breaking point, President Humberto Castello Branco flew to Recife fortnight ago for a 40-minute chat with Cámara. The talk was secret, but its results were evident. Last week Castello Branco ordered the truculent General Portugal and his two top aides transferred out of the Northeast, named moderate officers to replace them...
Gold & Ostriches. South Africa is a land of bright sun and haunting beauty. Fine wine grapes grow in the protected valleys in the southwest, while elephant, rhino and springbok range the high savanna of Kruger National Park in the northeast. Ostrich farms dot the harsh, baked landscape beneath the kopjes (flat-topped hills) of the Great Karroo, where two centuries ago Dutch trekboers lived in small nomadic communi ties. South of the Kalahari Desert is the high veld, a great, green, grassy plateau where cattle and sheep graze in endless herds. On the Indian Ocean's shore...