Word: northern
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...Grant Sharp in Washington last week, is "tight, very tight." Said South Viet Nam's Foreign Minister Tran Van Do during a Washington meeting with representatives of the six nations* that have sent troops to his country: "I cannot exclude the possibility of larger-scale invasion. Our two northern provinces of Quang Tri and Thua Thien are presently under terrible pressure." Columnist Joseph Alsop believes that "a new Battle of the Bulge" may be in the making. "Everything is now to be gambled [by Hanoi] to reverse the war's unfavorable trend," predicts Alsop, "by achieving a Dien...
CHICAGO, April 21 -- Abarrage of tornadoes swept through Northern Illinois and Chicago late Friday, killing at least 50 people and injuring more than...
...South and it is pressing this view through greater escalation including, we are convinced, sending ground forces into the North. New means of bringing pressure include the continued expansion of bombing target (although there are fewer and fewer of these left), and bombardment from the fleet of the Northern coast and artillery based at the edge of the DMZ. We can only guess what is to follow, although North Vietnamese attacks against the artillery positions suggest that a "counter-attack" may come soon...
...Basque Separatists are once more up to their old habits of derring-do. In recent weeks they have also planted their outlawed flag on a mountaintop in upper Navarra, ingeniously substituted it for the Spanish flag at a civil ceremony in San Sebastián. Police throughout northern Spain, more over, are searching frantically for a hidden Basque radio transmitter that jams government newscasts and broadcasts Separatist propaganda in their stead...
...most official documents are written in Serbian, 90% of the Yugoslav diplomatic corps is Serbian and the army is dominated by Serbian officers who give orders in their mother tongue. The Croats, on the other hand, have lately become more powerful because of rapid economic development in their northern region, part of a broad industrial step-up in Yugoslavia (see WORLD BUSINESS). Deciding that Croatian deserved more recognition, 17 Croatian organizations, led by the Croatian Writers Union, recently demanded a constitutional amendment making their tongue an official language separate from Serbian...