Word: northern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protect their officers. Fiat is reported to have prepared a highly confidential booklet for some 3,000 executives, "advising standard precautions such as varying daily travel, watching for suspicious strangers and carefully checking one's car. A group of 50 heads of small-and medium-size businesses in northern Italy have organized themselves into a modern version of the tontine, a primitive 17th century insurance company. They have put together a mutual-benefit ransom society so that if any member is held hostage, all participants will put up cash to buy his freedom...
DIED. Ahmed Hussein al-Ghashmi. 37, President of the Yemen Arab Republic (Northern Yemen); by assassination; in Sana. As an envoy from the neighboring Yemen People's Democratic Republic (Southern Yemen) opened his briefcase to deliver a message to Ghashmi from President Salem Rubayi Ali, a bomb exploded, killing both Ghashmi and the envoy. The commander of Northern Yemen's army, Ghashmi had been President for only two months and had survived at least one attempt on his life. He succeeded Ibrahim al-Hamadi, who died eight months ago at 41 when assassins machine-gunned...
...resisting on the grounds that U.S. controllers do not direct landings abroad. Late last week, pressure from a federal court persuaded controllers to end the slowdown, at least temporarily, but the issue of free flights remains unresolved. Also, in many of the Midwest and Northern Pacific states, the air snarl has been aggravated by a pilots' strike at Northwest, which struggled to keep some flights aloft by using management crews...
Weather. Much of it has ranged from bad to impossible. Denver's Stapleton airport was closed intermittently for days because of thunderstorms. The Northern states have been besieged by a succession of lightning-filled fronts, which have delayed flights for hours...
...long ago as 4000 B.C. The composition and style of pottery shards found in one of the pestholes are characteristic of that time. Thus the hall was apparently built at least 1,000 years before Stonehenge, and is several centuries older than a small timber hutch in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, that has until now been regarded as the most ancient building in the United Kingdom...