Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month, the Disneyland-ish dream of building a capitalistic Viet Nam with American business know-how and money has turned into a nightmare. Last week, as fears of reprisals from embittered South Vietnamese swept through the chaotic capital and Communist forces regrouped an hour's drive to the northeast for an assault that could overrun Saigon, most of Viet Nam's American executives were either gone or packing to leave. Said one businessman: "It's almost better to go home now and come back to make a better deal with a Communist regime in five years...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Hunger Action Project is a group of students, faculty and community people working to clarify the complex issues that surround the food crisis. Together with college and community groups from around the Northeast, we have formed the Northeast Hunger Action Alliance...
...chronological order: A)Dr. No the first James Bond movie B) Leonard Bernstein's fund-raising party for the Black Panthers C) A Separate Peace. D) the first topless bathing suit. E) the first moon-walk. F) Catch-22. G) The first heart transplant. H) Telstar. I) The Northeast power failure J) The Great Profetarian Cultural Revolution and Bob Dylan's motorcycle crash...
...defenders to flee, allowing the Communists to roll easily over the sprawling city. They captured thousands of Saigon's troops and an enormous amount of U.S.-provided equipment, including warplanes, tanks and artillery. At week's end Lam Dong, a sparsely populated tea-growing province 85 miles northeast of Saigon, also fell. There seemed little doubt that the Communists would soon engulf practically all of Military Region II, the twelve provinces in the middle of the country...
...rails and the failure of the Government to produce a rational rail policy for the nation. An ICC staff estimate predicts that the industry's first-quarter loss will be "worse than has ever before occurred, even during the Great Depression of the 1930s." No fewer than eight Northeast roads are in bankruptcy. And the Department of Transportation's new Secretary, William Coleman Jr., cautions: "It would be foolish simply to subsidize the rails. I think 20% of the nation's rail trackage ought to be abandoned...