Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just after dawn one morning, a group of about 100 men invaded the town of Simacota (pop. 5,000), a small farming community in the Andean foothills 225 miles northeast of Bogotá. Wearing khaki uniforms and FALN-type arm bands, the raiders attacked the police post with modern automatic weapons, killing three policemen and a child who wandered into the line of fire. With crisp military precision, they then cut communication lines, looted the government Agrarian Bank of $5,300, snatched the cashbox from the local brewery, and stole arms and ammunition from police headquarters. One of the leaders...
...assure private foreign investors of a square shake. When Congress reopens in two weeks, Castello Branco has another armful of proposals. He intends to let the air out of the government's bloated administrative payroll, a key move against inflation, deliver a plan for development of the destitute northeast region. Most important, he will present Congress with a program to reform Brazil's crazy-quilt electoral procedure...
...Eastern has ordered another ten. The airline has applied to the CAB for permission to drop service to a dozen small cities- "tobacco-road stops" it unflatteringly calls them. In a joint move that has been temporarily blocked by court action, Eastern and National have offered $15 million to Northeast if the smaller line will withdraw its appeal of a CAB order removing it from the lucrative Florida run, where the three airlines have been battling one another for years for tourists...
...world were flat, the end of the earth would undoubtedly be French Guiana. A remote, jungle-shrouded patch on the northeast shoulder of South America, one-sixth the size of metropolitan France (see map), the colony is so stagnant that its population has increased by only 10,000 in 350 years, to its present total of 31,000 inhabitants. French Guiana's chief contributions to mankind so far have been one of history's most infamous prisons, Devil's Island, and the loan of the name of its sleepy capital, Cayenne, to a famous variety of pepper...
Selfert explained in an interview yesterday that the project was intended as a preliminary study of transportation conditions in the Northeast. He said that the government is particularly interested in proposals for a high speed railroad between Boston and Washington referred to by President Johnson in his state-of-the-union address Monday...