Word: northern
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Even if there are service cutoffs, Northern utilities figure the deprivations would be limited to those industrial customers who can readily switch to other fuel. This year there are more companies with backup sources: International Harvester, for example, has successfully drilled its own gas wells in Ohio...
Fifty years ago the inhabitants of the town of Ocotal in the mountains of northern Nicaragua witnessed an armed encounter between a detachment of U.S. Marines and a band of Nicaraguan insurgents under the leadership of General Augusto C. Sandino. The Marines formed part of an occupation force dispatched to this Central American nation by President Calvin Coolidge in order to put an end to civil disturbances and the threat these posed to U.S. property and strategic interests. Sandino, a military commander, had refused to accept the political settlement imposed on Nicaragua by the U.S. He vowed to continue...
Begin was obviously signaling loudest to Syrian President Hafez Assad, one of the Arab leaders most opposed to Sadat's journey. Said the Premier: "There is no justification for the poison that comes from our northern border." While stressing that Israel disagreed with some points that Sadat had raised?the return of East Jerusalem to Arab control, for instance?Begin insisted that Israel and the Arabs should at least talk and negotiate. "Let us continue the dialogue and grasp one another's hands. Israel does not wish to rule...
...their primary Indian Ocean naval facility, but can probably find some kind of alternative-possibly on Ethiopia's Red Sea coastline. They have exchanged the friendship of Somalia for that of a far bigger country. But Ethiopia is an extremely fragile ally that is fighting wars in its northern province of Eritrea as well as the Ogaden, and is led by an unstable junta. Only last week the junta executed its second in command, Lieut. Colonel Atnafu Abate...
...coax North Carolina and Virginia, the two biggest cigarette producers, into raising their per-pack taxes, thus eliminating the potential for profit. But that is not likely to happen; officials in those states think the problem is not that their taxes are too low but that taxes in Northern states are absurdly high. Says North Carolina Attorney General Rufus Edmisten: "I cannot justify spending countless hours looking for cigarette bootleggers who are not in violation of any of North Carolina's statutes." He is quite correct that they are not; buttleggers gladly pay the state...