Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funny thing happening in the rural Northern California town of Laytonville (pop. 1,000) revolves around one of Dr. Seuss's fantasies, The Lorax. The book has been required reading for second-graders for two years, but recently Judith Bailey requested that the Laytonville Unified School District downgrade it to optional. In The Lorax, it seems, a villain fells a forest to make garments called thneeds, and Dr. Seuss urges, "Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack." Bailey's husband Bill, it turns out, is a logging-equipment wholesaler. After his son read the book, says Bill...
...statement that was released in Dublin, the I.R.A. noted that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had "visited occupied Ireland with a message of war when we want peace. Now we in turn have visited the Royal Marines in Kent." Two weeks ago, the Prime Minister had toured Northern Ireland and praised the Ulster Defense Regiment, calling it a "very, very, very brave group of men." The U.D.R. has been accused of leaking names of I.R.A. suspects to Protestant assassins...
...forbidding wilderness of marshland and saw grass that had to be drained and tamed before southern Florida could realize its rich potential. Today the Everglades -- what is left of it -- is surrounded by an urban sprawl of 4.5 million people. Thriving sugarcane farms carved out of its northern reaches drain pollutants into its water; Air Force jets boom over its skies. The 1.4 million-acre Everglades National Park, created in 1947, has become an endangered relic in the nation's fourth most populous state. "Make no mistake," says outgoing park superintendent Michael Finley, "the Everglades is dying...
...National Weather Service said Hugo, the most powerful storm to hit the region this decade, slammed into the eastern tip of Puerto Rico and skirted the northern coast before roaring northwest toward the Bahamas...
...cocaine in the U.S. "The cartels are having trouble getting cocaine out of Colombia," said Pat O'Brien, outgoing chief of U.S. Customs in Miami. The government has seized so many of the traffickers' planes and helicopters that they may be having difficulty moving the powder to Colombia's northern coast, the main shipment point for cocaine. And on the drug-hungry streets of the U.S., the price of cocaine is skyrocketing...