Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israelis, the view from the Syrian heights is nothing short of a fifth dimension. Above Israel's northern Huleh Valley, kibbutzniks still shudder with relief and joy as they gape from Syrian bunkers at their pitifully exposed homes. This is how the Syrians saw it for 19 years as they casually lobbed shells onto valley settlements...
...Francisco last March 11 when he crashed. Remarkably, no one was killed: Oien was cut up, an arm and some ribs broken; his wife, Phyllis, 44, had a broken arm and ankle, and his stepdaughter, Carla Corbus, 15, was badly bruised. They were stranded 4,500 feet up, in northern California's Trinity Mountains. Luckily, Phyllis, a Northwestern University graduate, was a trained nurse, and Oien, a rough, resourceful logger who had worked his way up to ownership of a Portland hotel, was an experienced outdoorsman...
...herdboy on his father's tribal lands in northern Uganda, young Apollo Milton Obote often pondered how it would be to govern people rather than sheep or goats. Speaking to his charges as if they were human and he their chief, he soon discovered that keeping them in order required him both to prod them along and win their cooperation. Now the President of Uganda, Obote is governing his country in much the same way. Last week, as Uganda's 8,000,000 people prepared for this week's celebration of the fifth anniversary of their independence...
...quick delivery, the Russians developed a non-splintering antiaircraft shell that could accurately deliver a load of silver iodide as far away as 22 miles without scattering dangerous fragments on populated areas below. Selecting locations in the northern Caucasus, Georgia and the Armenian Republic that lie in a Soviet hail belt, the Russians set up enough radar installations and antiaircraft guns to detect and treat clouds over an area of 1,200,000 acres. During 1964 and 1965, thousands of shells were fired into threatening clouds...
...year after graduating cum laude, Mendoza and a fellow student founded Bufete Industrial. "Our first important job," says Mendoza, "came in 1951, when we engineered, designed and supervised construction of a sodium-sulphate plant in northern Mexico." Only a few more steps were necessary before Mendoza and his rapidly growing staff were ready to offer their present soup-to-nuts service...