Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first areas of the New World to be colonized, Brazil's Northeast reigned as sugar king for 200 years until Caribbean producers dethroned it in the 18th century. Then its markets dried up, and the land went backward, ignored by the rest of the nation. In this "other" Brazil, a bare, beaten region more than twice the size of Texas, 26 million Brazilians live in misery, almost 80% of them illiterate, disease and hunger holding the average life span to an appalling 35 years. Most nordestinos wring a grudging subsistence from the land, which is alternately scorched by drought...
...adjoining Colombia. Thwarted in Venezuela when they invaded the cities to try and prevent presidential elections in 1963, FALN terrorists have returned to the remote hill country, where they are engaged in Castro-style campaigns to murder local authorities and win over the peasantry. In Colombia's northeast, where they have back-to-back liaison with Venezuelan terrorists across the border, Communist bands have been shooting, looting, and haranguing the terrified populace to join in a people's revolt. In the southwest, Colombia's notorious Bandit-turned-Castroite Pedro Antonio Marín, 34, alias Sure Shot...
Operation Backfire. Almost simultaneously, South Vietnamese and U.S. forces launched another key offensive in the Boiloi Forest, 48 square miles of Communist stronghold 25 miles northeast of Saigon. Leaflets were dropped on the cave-infested region, warning all noncombatants to get out fast. More than 2,000 did. Then planes saturated the woods with chemical defoliants. After a few weeks of sunny, wind-scoured weather, the Boiloi Forest was tinder-dry. Last week U.S. bombers swept in with loads of Incendijel (an incendiary compound derived from napalm), while behind them flew C-123s dropping drums of fuel...
...Congolese or the African observers. "We have had such difficulties in my country too," said a tactful Nigerian representative, and Zambia's Ambassador Timothy Kankassa allowed that it could have happened anywhere. Even Tshombe seemed unperturbed, and for good reason: after a two-week offensive in the northeast, his mercenary-led army was doing better than ever in the struggle against the Communist-backed rebels...
...little money, weapons or encouragement from Premier Moise Tshombe's government in Leopoldville. One by one, the mercenaries drifted away, leaving their doughty leader, Major Michael Hoare, to find a new group of white foreigners to fight the Communist-backed Simbas who threatened to take over the whole northeast corner of the nation...