Word: northern
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Four staffers have just written first novels. Says Senior Editor Stefan Kanfer, whose book. The Eighth Sin, will appear this spring: "Every journalist is always writing a novel in his head because we are all self-dramatizing types." Associate Editor James Atwater drew on the trouble in Northern Ireland for Time Bomb; Writer Christopher Byron is completing The Holder of the Present, set in Greece; Contributor Richard Schickel's Another I, Another You, a love story about two divorced people, will be published...
Typical of younger, newer members of Congress, Anthony J. ("Toby ") Moffett, 33, is experienced, outspoken-and so independent that he did not even register as a Democrat until three weeks before he filed in 1974 to run for the House from northern Connecticut's Sixth District. Before that, he earned a master's degree in urban affairs at Boston College, worked with Boston street gangs for the U.S. Office of Education, was the first director of HEW's Office of Students and Youth, was a Senate aide to Walter Mondale and headed Ralph Nader's organization...
...daughter-in-law Annette visited the islands last week. They attended the inauguration of Peter Tali Coleman, first native-elected Governor of American Samoa, then flew to Saipan, the trust territory capital, where Carlos Camacho will be sworn in this week as the first native-elected Governor of the Northern Marianas...
...stewardship under an agreement that will expire in 1981. Carter insists that a change of status be negotiated by then with the trust territory islands. His Administration is willing to consider a range of options, from free association with the U.S., to commonwealth status, to independence. In 1975, the Northern Mariana Islands voted to leave the territory and become a U.S. commonwealth. They will achieve that status this week, retaining U.S. protection and many benefits but adding a far larger measure of self-government...
Dallas is a trader's town, a place for shrewd operators from the time of its founding in 1840, on a likely river crossing, by a canny settler of the Texas Republic's northern Indian frontier. Roads and rails soon branched away from the site, and Dallas began to do big business in buying, selling, managing and shipping the goods of the Southwest. In succession came buffalo hides, cotton, wheat and oil, banks to make loans for a percentage of the profits and insurance companies to underwrite them. It is a city of wealth wrought with sharp pencils and calculating...