Word: northern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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False Alarms. Teng's comeback-long expected but oft delayed-unfolded in the mysterious, equivocal style that is typical of high-level politics in China. The first signal that his official rehabilitation was forthcoming came early last week when a wall poster suddenly burst into view in the northern sector of Peking. Brushed on a 40-ft. strip of yellow paper, the bold black characters exhorted Chinese to warmly welcome and firmly support Teng's re-appointment to his former posts. During the night, however, the poster vanished, all traces of its message scraped off the wall. Some...
...conditioners, elevators, subways, lights, water pumps ?all the electric sinews of a great modern city?had stopped. They would not work again for as long as 25 hours. The blackout was far smaller than that of 1965?9 million people lost electricity in New York and the northern suburbs, v. 25 million people in eight states and two Canadian provinces twelve years ago. But the effects were nationwide. TV networks stopped broadcasting for several minutes. The flow of teletyped news from the A.P. and U.P.I, was interrupted, then limped along under jury rigs (see THE PRESS). Wall Street...
...severe summer thunderstorm had just swept across the green suburban hills of northern Westchester in the vicinity of the Indian Point No. 3 nuclear power plant overlooking the Hudson River. At 8:37 p.m., according to Con Ed's preliminary analysis, flashes of lightning knocked out two 345-kilovolt lines. That immediately cut off all the electricity from the 900-megawatt Indian Point facility, and the nuclear plant was promptly and safely shut down. Then, while duty officers at Con Ed's main control center in Manhattan-a huge, display-filled room somewhat like Mission Control in Houston...
...wave of Soviet tanks and armored personnel carriers rolls across the northern German plain. Unable to stem the tide, NATO generals request permission to use tactical nuclear weapons. According to an alliance agreement, the President of the U.S. must give his assent before battlefield nukes can be fired. He does. Scores of heavy artillery pieces are aimed at the invaders. Nuclear devices, each packing the equivalent of ten kilotons (10,000 tons) worth of TNT, halt the aggressors. But in the process, West Germany's cities and factories are leveled, and civilian casualties run into the millions. An American...
...politically volatile Horn of Africa. On one side is the army of Ethiopia's despotic military rulers, who are struggling to hold together the empire of the late Haile Selassie, whom they deposed in 1974. On the other are the 4 million people of Eritrea, Ethiopia's northern province. But also involved in the drama are the Soviet Union, Cuba, most of the Arab states, and the U.S.-and at stake is who will eventually control the strategic oil routes of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean...