Word: northern
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...Indians, most of whom now reside on three reservations in northern Maine that cover 22,000 acres, subsist largely on low-paying jobs and welfare-like many whites. Originally, they demanded more than 10 million acres, or one-half of the state. But Justice puts the probable extent of their supportable claim at 5 million acres. Justice is still researching the historical ownership of some 3 million additional acres. The Indians agreed to put off claims to 2 million acres of valuable coastal property (where 40% of Maine's 1 million non-Indians live) in return for money...
...Last year, serious earthquakes struck Guatemala, killing 22,000; the area surrounding Tientsin in China, with a toll of perhaps 665,000; Mindanao, 8,000; Turkey. 5,000: and northern Italy...
...union organizers seeking to crack the Southern textile industry picked as their No. 1 target J.P. Stevens & Co., the nation's second largest textile maker. Their reason: before it moved most of its mills south, Stevens had union contracts in some of its Northern plants, and organizers thought it might be less hostile to unionism than other Dixie employers. That was a monumental miscalculation: Stevens fought back so hard as to lead the National Labor Relations Board to accuse it last year of "unfair labor practices of unprecedented flagrancy and magnitude." To this day the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile...
...opponents, much to their regret, have tried other possibilities. Amin himself has proudly documented at least nine separate attempts on his life. He seems to have a fix on every thought, not to say plan, concerning his enemies. Once last year, as the presidential limousine was driving through northern Uganda, some opponents ambushed the car and pumped it full of machine-gun bullets, killing all the occupants. But Amin had switched cars down the road -and survived. Later, a grenade bounced off Amin's cheek in another assassination try and rolled away before it exploded, killing Amin...
...President passed by on the other side of the road in his Range Rover, stopped, turned round and joined us as we also stopped. He ordered out of his vehicle his bodyguard, an Acholi, from the tribe that, it is alleged, is being massacred in northern Uganda. The bodyguard then traveled in Mr. Bob's car while our little British journalistic group drove with the President...