Word: northern
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...West. His support will draw partly from Carter's liberal electorate and could hurt the Democratic nominee in a close election. A nationwide Gallup poll, taken from Aug. 6 to Aug. 9, gave McCarthy 6% of the vote. That figure could be larger in some crucial Northern states-enough to tilt them out of the Democratic column. In California, a Mervin Field poll, taken between July 24 and Aug. 3, gave McCarthy 7% of the vote...
...Palestinians and the Moslem leftists. Through contacts among intelligence agents in Cyprus, the Lebanese Christians put in a desperate request to Jerusalem for arms and ammunition. By May-shortly before Syrian army units began moving into Lebanon-a regular supply line from Israel to Jounieh and other northern Lebanese ports was in operation. The matériel included not only ammunition and light arms like the U.S. M-16 rifle but such heavy weapons as armored personnel carriers, Russian 122-mm. rockets and at least 22 T-54 tanks captured in the 1967 and 1973 wars...
...headquarters in Zambia, from which his organization wages a guerrilla war in northern Namibia, SWAPO President Sam Nujoma announced that he might be willing to talk. The non-whites at the Windhoek conference now hope to install an interim government by next June 30 and will invite SWAPO to take part...
Moore deftly links the potential destructiveness of Sheila's behavior to larger rips in the social fabric- particularly to contemporary Northern Ireland and to "Belfast bombed and barricaded." Sheila thinks it "a bad joke that when the people at home no longer believed in their religion, or went to church as they once did, the religious fighting was worse than ever." Later, during an argument with her brother, Sheila is blunt to the point of despair: "The Protestants don't believe in Britain and the Catholics don't believe in God. And none of us believes...
Died. Juscelino Kubitschek, 73, imaginative', popular former President of Brazil (1956-61), who built Brasilia, a new concrete-and-glass capital in the desolate interior, in order to hasten Brazil's northern development; in an automobile accident; near Rio de Janeiro. A surgeon by training, Kubitschek relinquished a lucrative society practice to pursue his political career. He captured the presidency with a platform of "Fifty Years' Progress in Five." Foreign investment and farsighted government programs helped build highways, power projects and a thriving automobile industry, but high inflation, deficits and charges of corruption marred his five-year...