Word: norths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statistics of destruction were appalling. More than 35,000 houses were demolished in the shelling, which soon spread from the city to the hills north of Beirut. The U.S. Embassy was hit by shells, and two Marine guards were wounded. Some two-thirds of the 600,000 Christian residents fled, leaving behind thousands of others cowering in the basements of wrecked buildings without food, water, electricity or communications with the outside world. Unable to minister to the wounded, hospitals turned into morgues, reeking with the stench of decomposing bodies. Said a shaken President Elias Sarkis, in a terse summation...
...were reported killed in deadly artillery duels with the 12,000-man militias of the Christian National Liberal and Phalange parties. The Christians' ability to keep up a stiff resistance depended on the outcome of battles over two bridges linking East Beirut with the main coastal roads heading north. If the Syrians cut them, the militiamen would be trapped, with no chance for supplies from Israel or escape...
...keep Angolan nationality. So now, for better or worse, we prefer to go to our own country. I know I can get work there and the government has to give us a house. Here I've been mostly out of work. When we were moved to the north, I even had to take a job sweeping floors...
Much of the refugees' nostalgia for Angola springs from Portugal's difficulties in assimilating them. Many were blacks or people of mixed blood who were born in Africa. The majority of the whites had originally been dirt farmers from the impoverished north of Portugal; they had emigrated to Angola in the hope of a better life. Although few got rich, most had deep roots in Africa. Many of the refugees found it extremely difficult to adjust to a Portugal that was still in the throes of the post-Salazar transition to democracy and a mixed economy. Jobs, housing...
Since the early talk about the crunch of the 1980s, the headlines have been full of seemingly good news about oil. Exploratory drilling activity has risen by 30% since the 1973 embargo. In the past year or so, oil has begun to flow from Alaska's North Slope, North Sea production has increased, and promising indications of oil and natural gas have been found in the Baltimore Canyon off the U.S.'s East Coast. Oil companies have also been exploring what are thought to be big deposits along China's coast. And in Venezuela, development is continuing...