Word: northeasterly
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KIZLYAR, DAGESTAN: Chechen rebels are holding as many as 1,000 hostages in a Russian hospital 60 miles north of Grozny, the Chechen capital. "Some 400 rebels attacked Kizlyar in neighboring Dagestan, an ethnic republic to the northeast of the breakaway region," reports TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "The rebels, who have lost at least six people in gunfighting, are now battling with federal troops for control of the town's railway station." Five policemen and five civilians have also been killed so far in fighting that raged through the city streets. Led by Salman Raduyev...
...NORTHEAST Major snowstorm added to general retail woes makes it the hardest-hit region
...closed from Missouri to Connecticut, power was knocked out for thousands of homes in the midwest and flights were delayed coast to coast as a severe winter storm covered much of the country on Tuesday. The heaviest snow is predicted to hit parts of the East Coast and the Northeast tonight, with as much as 18 inches predicted...
...THEIR troops last Saturday: in Germany Bill Clinton tells the 1st Armored Division, slated for Bosnia duty, "If you are threatened with attack, you may respond immediately and with decisive force." That line receives the loudest whoops and applause of the day. Meanwhile, in Vlasenica, a town 80 km northeast of Sarajevo, General Ratko Mladic, the military leader of the Bosnian Serbs, speaks at a ceremony inaugurating a new brigade. "We cannot allow our people to come under the rule of butchers," he says. "Those who bombed us have now infiltrated like lambs, saying they want to protect peace...
...missing ingredient was 40 minutes of emotion," Delaney-Smith said. "We lost to one of the better teams in the Northeast, and we have to come out of this knowing we are at least as good they...