Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Athens interview with Cleveland Plain Dealer Correspondent John Leacacos, Tsaldaris offered a solution to Greece's civil war. He asked Joseph Stalin to tell all Communists that the Communist Party prefers victory by democratic means to victory by violent revolution. Then a neutral zone in northern Greece should be created where Greek guerrillas could surrender their arms without fear of recrimination (they would be free to leave Greece or stay under police protection). New elections should be held under international surveillance. As concessions, Tsaldaris offered a wide amnesty to political oppositionists, and customs-free zones in the Aegean port...
This action will consist of building up Korean participation in running the southern half of the country until a provisional government evolves. Then it will be up to the Russians to show that they have done as much for the northern half, and merge the two. But as long as the steel wall remains, the truncated economy of the south must be made to grow new industrial limbs. The U.S. will ship in equipment and supplies. For this year, at least, it will also have to ship in food because of crop failures and lack of fertilizer...
Such a regime, Rhee thought, could then go before the United Nations to have Russia forced out of northern Korea and have the country unified...
...Punjab, athwart the historic northern invasion route, has long been India's political thermometer. Last week it read "high fever." In Lahore, Amritsar, Rawalpindi and over the intervening countryside, Moslems, Sikhs and Hindus slew and burned in wholesale lawlessness unsurpassed in British India in 90 years...
...Look Ahead. The answer is "pressure pattern flying." Certain winds are pretty likely to be associated with certain weather conditions. An area of low pressure in the northern hemisphere, for instance, is surrounded by winds blowing counterclockwise (see map). Around high-pressure areas, the wind blows clockwise. If the pilot knows which he is approaching, a low-pressure or high-pressure area, he can set his course to take advantage of the most favorable winds...