Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guidance on whether to serve overseas. Such decisions are not made lightly. At last week's commitment service, Billy Graham said somberly that today's missionaries, like the New Testament disciples, may suffer ostracism, persecution, even death (an example four weeks ago: three Catholic missionaries in northwest Rhodesia, shot by a nationalist guerrilla...
...said that at the time the cafeteria roof was replaced, he requested that the northeast and northwest wings also be done...
...freezing night last week, a burly figure stealthily flipped a fat manila envelope, wrapped in a sheet of plastic, into the parking lot of the Soviet embassy's seven-story residence in northwest Washington. The packet was addressed FOR THE RESIDENT-EYES ONLY, meaning, in spook jargon, that it was intended for the KGB spymaster who lived in the apartment building. Suspecting that it was a letter bomb planted by anti-Soviet Jewish activists, a Soviet watchman summoned U.S. officials, who in turn called in U.S. Army demolition experts...
...managed to spend more time with Wife Rita, a part-time librarian at George Washington University, and their six children, aged 11 to 27. Schultze and his family in recent years have become avid backpackers in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a short drive from their modest home in northwest Washington. Said a colleague: "Give Charlie some free time and an open trail. and he's gone." In his new job, however, Schultze will have little time for hikes, except between the Executive Office Building and the White House...
...purposeful job of disclosing as little information as possible. In a series of briefings, then CIA Director William Colby confided to reporters that the U.S. had used a large vessel, reportedly built for Howard Hughes, to try to retrieve a 1961-vintage Soviet submarine that had sunk northwest of Hawaii. Unfortunately, the Golf-class sub cracked apart as it was being hoisted. Only the forward third was recovered. Colby did not say what it contained, but any knowledgeable person would expect that it housed torpedoes and perhaps other valuable materials. The mid-and aft sections, containing the far more important...