Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poorly distributed. Only 11.8% of all Brazil's cities and towns receive any aid at all for needy children. There is only one government or private-care agency for every 10,000 needy or abandoned children. Only 10% of these institutions are located in the poverty-stricken northeast, where nearly one-half of the country's deprived young are to be found. Well-intentioned attempts by agencies and individuals to find adoptive parents are hampered by the fact that few eligible grownups want to take in dark-skinned children; they prefer the relatively few who are blond...
...suffering the effects of a sudden withdrawal of aid by China last June, and is growing steadily more apprehensive as relations with Peking continue to degenerate. Last week, the mutual dislike blossomed into outright violence at the so-called Friendship border gate between the two countries, located 100 miles northeast of Hanoi. Hanoi claimed that two Vietnamese were killed and 25 others wounded, while Peking charged that four Chinese had died and "dozens" were seriously injured...
...Friday, Aug. 11, acting on the advice of meteorologists, the trio lifted off from Presque Isle-and nearly crashed. Hitting a pocket of warm, light air, the balloon dipped sharply down over a gravel pit before recovering. By Monday evening, with all going well, the balloonists were 600 miles northeast of St. John's, Newfoundland, flying at 15,000 ft. The temperature was down to zero in the gondola, but angora long Johns and a portable heater kept the men from suffering frostbite. Their menus, chosen by their wives, consisted of a breakfast of hot coffee or cocoa with...
Many of them are unemployed. Those who have found jobs generally work as unskilled laborers, sugar-cane cutters or deliverymen. Most of them live in the crowded apartments of northeast Miami. Some Miamians, including many Cubans, complain that the Haitians are a potential drain on government assistance and should be sent home. But, because they are in the U.S. illegally, they do not qualify for welfare or other government help. The National Council of Churches has, since 1974, provided them with $500,000 worth of emergency housing, food and medicine...
...major flaws in planning). But Assad has parted company with the Soviets over their policy in Ethiopia, where he continues to support the breakaway Eritrean rebels. He also has improved relations with Washington, which allocated his government $90 million in aid this year. Recently, Assad opened up Syria's northeast oil region to two American companies?a sign, some aides say, of his intention to reduce further his country's dependency on Moscow and adopt a completely nonaligned position...