Word: northern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe tennis team ran its northern record to 1-3 yesterday, dropping a match to Brown at Providence...
...only way workers will ever achieve better wages, improve safety measures, and health conditions, and secure decent pension plans. For the AFL-CIO, the campaign is the first step toward unionizing the South and improving the conditions for Southern workers. That, in turn, could curb the pattern of Northern "runaway shops" moving south to avoid union labor, and help the economic development of the North-east...
...year has been deeply troubling for South Africa. The rioting that began last June in Johannesburg's black ghetto of Soweto (pop. 1.2 million) and quickly spread to other black townships around the country has taken 500 lives so far-and sputters on. Guerrilla raids continue in the northern portion of Namibia, which South Africa has administered (as South West Africa) since 1920. Under international pressure, South Africa is now trying to set Namibia free, but only under a moderate government that would cause the South Africans no trouble. The hitch is that the only Namibian political group recognized...
...hours, Heinkel-111s in the lead, followed by ponderous Junkers-52 trimotors. As fighter planes wove in and out, strafing people on the ground, the bombers unloaded some 100,000 lbs. of high-explosive, fragmentation and incendiary bombs on a small Basque town in the green hills of northern Spain. When the bombers left, a town had been smashed to rubble, but a symbol was born-still evoked for many by Pablo Picasso's best-known and most terrifying canvas...
Died. William Cardinal Conway, 64, Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland and 112th pastoral descendant of St. Patrick; after surgery for removal of his gall bladder; in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Born in Belfast, Conway was spiritual leader for Ireland's 3.5 million Catholics, including Ulster's 500,000. The tall, husky Cardinal condemned the civil turmoil in Northern Ireland, calling both Protestant and Catholic terrorists "monsters...