Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peasantry are concerned, up until recently there haven't been overwhelming sources of peasant discontent except in the tribal areas of the northeast...
...NORTHEAST. Pennsylvania Democrat Milton Shapp defeated Raymond Broderick by a 498,000-vote margin that astonished even Shapp. Under the reign of Governor Ray Shafer, political heir to the widely admired William Scranton, the state deficit rose to $500 million (the budget is currently $1.2 billion). Broderick's plans to cut spending antagonized large blocs of voters. Shapp, a wiry and intense millionaire, will become the Commonwealth's first Jewish Governor. "The people wanted a change," said Phrasemaker Shapp...
...Guatemala, troops have crushed the rural-based guerrillas who once owned the mountainous northeast, but now the survivors are operating in Guatemala City. As many as 500 F.A.R. (Rebel Armed Forces) terrorists specialize in kidnaping and assassinations. The 1968 murder of U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein by F.A.R. terrorists was the brutal inaugural of the diplomatic kidnapings in Latin America. Last April, when the government balked at freeing 24 jailed terrorists in return for the kidnaped West German Ambassador, Karl von Spreti, the F.A.R. proved itself ready to kill again...
Railpax seems likely to save some passenger trains from becoming extinct, but it will hardly work miracles in restoring long-haul service, which attracts mainly sightseers. Few passengers are still willing to spend three days traveling coast to coast, or two days from the Northeast to Texas. The legislation empowers Transportation Secretary John Volpe to decide what routes Railpax must serve at the outset. He will probably order continued service over heavily traveled corridors, particularly between Boston and Washington. Some long runs that draw varying amounts of patronage-for example, the Northeast to Florida, Chicago to New Orleans...
...Hartford students sat quietly and inconspicuously in the audience; there were not as many of them actively following the events of the convention as there had been the day before. It seemed strange that Thurmond could come to Hartford and deliver the kind of speech that reaches the Northeast only on news reports; it seemed geographically out of place, as though the deep-South words and the New England air ought...