Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lumumba's Stanleyville pals now controlled more than 30% of the entire Congo, were clearly preparing to make it closer to 50% by grabbing sprawling Equator province in the northwest. Léopoldville's harassed Colonel Joseph Mobutu hastily packed two platoons of troops into planes and flew them to Lisala, one of Equator province's main towns. But how effective Mobutu's troops would be was anyone's guess, for there was trouble in the ranks; many of his soldiers wanted more pay. At the big Camp Hardy troop center at Thysville, where Lumumba...
...Devil Himself. The son of a railway stationmaster, Schiele lived most of his childhood in the drowsy Danubian town of Tulln, 14 miles northwest of Vienna. He was an emotional, lonely boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely any schoolwork. When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Even there he did not last for long. Cried one professor after a few months of Student Schiele's tantrums and rebellion: "The devil himself must have defecated you into my classroom...
...they take the child's hasty departure as an insult and feel no obligation to respect the departed. Among Orthodox Jews, when two dead men arrive for burial at a cemetery, the more learned of the two, according to Talmudic prescription, must be buried first. In the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia, the Salish Indians dispose of their dead by rolling an avalanche over them. In China, since the Communists took power, thousands of cemeteries have been plowed up and sown to crops. The bones, allegedly removed for reburial, were probably ground up for fertilizer...
Today's forcast from the Boston weather bureau is fair and very cold, highest temperatures in the low 30's Northwest winds of from 20-30 mph with continue through the day. Tonight will be fair and very cold. Total accumulation of snow exceeds twelve inches...
...trials that followed, two of the husbands got 20 years, the other 30. To forestall plotting, the men were sent to widely separated prisons. Two of the sisters themselves were imprisoned briefly, then allowed to return to their family home near Salcedo, 70 miles northwest of Ciudad Trujillo. Two months ago, without explanation, all three husbands were moved to a prison near Salcedo. There, after a tantalizing delay, the wives were granted permission to make a joint visit a fortnight ago. The sisters' cars had been confiscated; gratefully they accepted a stranger's offer to ride...