Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly three years, the railroads of the Northeast have been highballing toward disaster. Six lines,-which control half the trackage in the 15-state area, are bankrupt, maintenance has been cut for lack of cash, and equipment is literally falling apart. Now, however, there is light at the end of the tunnel: following House approval, a Northeast rail reorganization bill passed the Senate last week. Expanded to include the Ann Arbor, a ruined Michigan line, and bearing a price tag of at least $4 billion, the measure is quite a Christmas treat. While the railroads clearly need help, the Senate...
...subSaharan, nations of Mauritania, Senegal Mali, Upper Volta, Niger and Chad. More than 1,000,000 hungry nomads are roaming the Sahel, surrounding its cities in a futile search for food. Nomads in Chad have been forced to eat leaves and bark to stay alive. In Nigerias parched Northeast, villagers pillage anthills to get at grain kernels that the ants have stored away...
...pledge to "keep those newspapers steadfastly American." Whatever the outcome, Murdoch's San Antonio properties will give him a toehold in the U.S. that he plans to enlarge soon in a major way with the founding of a national weekly tabloid paper. Slated for introduction in the Northeast in February, Murdoch's National Star will, he promises, "fall somewhere between TIME and the National Enquirer in content and approach." He obviously wants a good deal of latitude in which to navigate...
...Chinese have also attempted repeatedly to make inroads in the Himalayan border states of Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan, whose people are of Tibetan extraction, claiming that these are Chinese-dependent states taken from their motherland by the imperialists who divided China early in this century. In addition, India's Northeast Frontier Agency is claimed by China as part of its former dependencies. In 1962, the Chinese moved 30,000 troops into the territory--where the inhabitants are predominantly Tibeto-Burmese of Mongolian origin--and laid claim...
Peking's local offers of autonomy to these states culminated in a policy to establish a Confederation of Himalayan Border States, which would include Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and the Northeast Frontier of India. The confederation has yet to become a reality...