Word: northern
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Soviet negotiators demanded that in return Iran should sign no pact with any other country permitting it to set up bases in Iran. President Eisenhower sent the Shah a strong letter, presumably reminding him that the U.S. had stood by his country when the Russians invaded his northern provinces in 1946. Washington also promised more aid. At week's end the Russians went home emptyhanded...
Nestled in a fold of the snow-crested mountains of northern Lebanon, surrounded by vineyards, orchards and stony fields, lie the Christian village of Kobeyat and the Moslem village of Jaafra. But there is bad blood between them. In the Lebanese rebellion of last summer, the 8,000 Maronite Roman Catholics of Kobeyat supported the government of President Camille Chamoun; the 2,000 Moslems of Jaafra enthusiastically backed the rebels. At one point armed raiders from Jaafra stormed the police post in Kobeyat, killed a Christian woman and wounded five other villagers before being driven...
...government of Southern Rhodesia is being censured for having done too little too late to save the Kariba animals. But the government of Northern Rhodesia, across the lake, has done even less. It has sent a single game warden to the scene, and his duties are to kill two elephants each week to provide meat for the Batonga tribesmen evacuated from the lake site. The Northern Rhodesia Game Preservation and Hunting Association last week appealed to its members to devote their holidays to rescue work. It is unlikely that either the holidaying hunters from Northern Rhodesia or the exhausted eleven...
Ever since the Suez crisis of 1956 threatened much of the free world's oil reserves, prospectors have been coming to Canada in droves and pushing out to the unlikeliest corners. Last week Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton told the House of Commons about the newest "hunting ground: Canada's forbidding Arctic. So far this year, no fewer than ten companies and individuals have applied for the right to explore 60 million acres of coastal waters and arctic island territory north of the Canadian mainland...
...race for applications with recently completed geological maps showing formations of an oil-bearing type extending through the Arctic as far as Ellesmere Island, 490 miles from the North Pole. To aid future prospectors for oil as well as other minerals, the Department of Transport plans to open northern airfields (see map) to private flyers, maintain stores of supplies and equipment for them to buy as they need...