Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brazil was shocked, but hardly surprised. Both Mello and Góes Monteiro come from the hardscrabble northeast state of Alagoas, where political ambushes are the rule, not the exception. For more than 20 years, Góes Monteiro and his family ran the state as a private political reserve. Once, when a political enemy was mysteriously killed, Góes Monteiro ordered samba music played on public loudspeakers...
...predawn assault on Chala, overran half the outpost, but were repulsed by savage machine-gun fire. When paratroopers and B-26 bombers hurried to the rescue, the Reds shot down one B26. Yet the counterblow was effective; villagers reported that the fleeing Viet Cong suffered approximately 400 casualties. Northeast of Saigon, government troops ambushed a Viet Cong battalion, killed or wounded 69 of the enemy. Also northeast of the capital, a three-day government offensive ended with 40 Viet Cong dead. West of Mytho, air and artillery strikes wiped out 82 Reds...
...helped by the fact that Eastern has just completed a Maclntyre-planned $237 million refinancing plan that will enable it to take delivery on 40 new Boeing trijet 727s next year. Also in Eastern's favor is the recent decision by the Civil Aeronautics Board to remove Northeast Airlines from the New York-Miami run. Though the CAB order is now being tested in court, the chances are good that within a few months Eastern will have only one competitor, rather than two, on the lucrative sunshine...
That shock, however, caused wide-spread comment and even some panic. Its epicenter was located about 60 miles northeast of Cambridge, and it was felt as far away as Maine...
Dutifully, the rival North African brothers went through the motions of truce talks, but the Moroccans refused Algerian demands to withdraw from the outposts, and after six meetings in Marrakech the negotiations collapsed in anger. As the Algerians stormed home, a new battle reportedly erupted at Ich, 300 miles northeast of the original fighting, and Hassan charged that Ben Bella sought to convert the border struggle into a general war. Back in Algiers, Information Minister M'hammed Yazid blandly declared that a "dialogue is still possible." With that, he boarded a plane for New York, where he will...