Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, battering northwest into the Gulf of Mexico, Betsy hurtled full-blast into Louisiana and Mississippi. In the Delta lowlands, where Audrey in 1957 took 518 lives in one Louisiana parish, 250,000 refugees sought shelter in schools and churches. The Delta was even more seriously hurt than the Miami area. Overall, property damage was estimated at $500 million...
...Kashmiris, who are 80% Moslem. About 100 years later, faced by a revolt of his Moslem subjects, the Hindu maharajah opted to join India in return for help in putting down the rebellion. As Indian troops poured in from the south, Pakistani tribesmen came down the mountains in the northwest to help their Moslem brothers...
...permits Japan Air Lines to land in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, in return gets rights for Pan American and Northwest Airlines to fly into Tokyo and beyond to Southeast Asia. For four years Japan has wanted to rewrite its air treaty with the U.S. to make Japan Air Lines the third foreign line (after Australia's Qantas and Britain's BOAC) to fly coast to coast across the U.S. to New York. The reason is obvious: Japan Air Lines could then begin to tap the rich transatlantic market. Japan wants to be able to fly into...
...more by close-support air strikes. Far to the north, near Danang, U.S. Marines pioneered a new approach to airborne mobility with a large-scale helicopter-borne assault in darkness. It was organized by Lieut. Colonel David Clement, whose battalion operates in the Elephant Valley, just eight miles northwest of the critical airbase, after his leathernecks captured a Viet Cong operation order. Their commanders advised Red guerrillas to lie low during the day, since "the marines always attack after first light." Last week Clement's operations officer, Major Marc Moore of Dallas, rounded up a fleet of helicopters...
Moonlight helicoptering is not the only invention of U.S. Marine Corps Lieut. Colonel David Clement (see above). During his four-month stay in the mountainous jungles northwest of Danang, the lean, leathery, 40-year-old North Carolinian has applied the best of counterinsurgency techniques to the dirtiest of conditions...