Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swath of southern and eastern Cambodia, and heading for the national capital of Phnom-Penh. In Takeo province, 50 miles south of the capital, they battled Cambodian soldiers at Ang Tasom and Takeo, the provincial capital, closing two key highways linking Phnom-Penh with southern ports. Roughly 100 miles northeast of Phnom-Penh, Communist troops blew up a bridge and occupied a town in Kratie province. Another force, attacking by boat, raided the upper-crust Cambodian resort of Kep on the Gulf of Siam, where they set fire to municipal buildings and killed several civilians before escaping...
...rejection, discloses this week that Nixon's popularity rating has dropped to 52%?one of the lowest in his presidency. Harris reports that regional breakdowns indicate that Nixon's Southern strategy has proved popular in Border and Deep South states, but is costing him support in the industrial Northeast and the Midwest...
...Executives at Northeast Federal Savings Bank, scene of smashed windows and a fire, said that they were not surprised by the riot. "We felt that pressure was building," Bob Stoughton said. "Something of this nature had to come about-not this drastic perhaps...
Some of the protestors broke the front windows of the Northeast Federal Savings bank and hurled a firebrand through the broken glass. Cambridge firemen extinguished the blaze after only superficial damage to the window case and part of the lobby...
Died. Brigadier General William R. Bond, 50, commander of the U.S 199th Light Infantry Brigade and the first general to die of enemy small-arms fire in Viet Nam; of a chest wound; 67 miles northeast of Saigon. A 28-year Army veteran on his second Viet Nam tour Bond was inspecting the scene of a recent firefight when he was hit by a single sniper's bullet. Four other generals have been killed in action-all in plane or helicopter crashes...