Word: northern
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...small patch of orchard near the little town of Berryville, expanded his preserve until it encompassed 5,000 acres, and eventually became the world's largest individual applegrower. Once established as the squire of Rosemont, his baronial estate in the lush, pristine hills near the state's northern border, Byrd plunged into Virginia politics...
When a nine-man infantry squad set out one night this month to lay an ambush for the Viet Cong near the Bao Trai airstrip in the northern coastal region of South Viet Nam, Paul Widtfeldt Jr., an unarmed medical specialist, went along. Next morning, nine of the ten men were found shot through the head. Among them was redhaired, bespectacled Medic Widtfeldt, who had been killed while tending a dying buddy. For his courage, the Army revealed last week, Widtfeldt, 21, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, will be posthumously awarded a second Bronze Star; his first was presented in August...
Precisely at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of May 2, 1945, the men of 22 Nazi and six Italian Fascist divisions in northern Italy laid down their arms. The surprise mass surrender, which involved nearly 1,000,000 troops and led only days later to Germany's complete capitulation, could only have been engineered. It was, in fact, one of the most stunning triumphs in the history of secret wartime diplomacy. The Allies' Operation Sunrise was bossed principally by Allen Dulles, who was later to become director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency...
Private Line. Later that same year, Dulles' people began to pick up fascinating intelligence in the form of peace feelers from Nazi leaders assigned to northern Italy. As the tide turned against the Nazis, these overtures grew in number, so Dulles decided to pave a channel of communications for the enemy...
...March 1945, this private conduit had admitted an astonishing emissary onto Swiss soil: Nazi General Karl Wolff, commander of the SS (Hitler's elite Schutzstaffel) in northern Italy. Like many of his fellow generals, Wolff had lost faith in a Führer whose paranoia refused to see that Germany was losing the war; like few of them, Wolff was prepared to do something about it. Meeting with Dulles in Zurich, he proposed to deliver every enemy soldier in northern Italy to the Allied cause...