Word: northwest
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Given a fair test, the reforms might have reduced tension. Instead, they alarmed many Protestants. In an atmosphere of growing anger, Paisley warned voters: "You cannot talk peace until the enemy surrenders, and the enemy is the Catholic Church." The predominantly Protestant constituency of Bannside, northwest of Belfast, gave him a decisive victory over two opponents...
...supertanker Manhattan was heading north on its second experimental Arctic voyage, Trudeau responded to Canadian concern over possible future oil pollution by extending Ottawa's jurisdiction to 100 miles northward from its shores. The measure, in effect, establishes Canadian control over shipping through the Northwest Passage. Some Canadians wanted him to assert full-fledged sovereignty over the waters rather than mere jurisdiction, but Trudeau characteristically chose the more reasonable course. "This pollution legislation," he said, "is not jingoist. It is not anti-American." Nonetheless, Washington last week sent a strong protest to Ottawa...
...however, that the U.S. might be continuing to develop its multiple-warhead weapons in an attempt to gain a "favorable position" at SALT. The Kremlin, for that matter, has done exactly the same thing. Only two weeks ago, the Soviet Strategic Missile Forces completed the latest tests in the northwest Pacific on the huge S59 rocket, which can carry three five-megaton warheads (making them perhaps 25 times more powerful than those carried by the American Minuteman...
Twenty miles northwest of Augusta in hilly farm country, Mount Vernon is too poor to be a traditionally quaint New England town. At the start of the century, it had a flourishing sawmill, gristmill, tannery and barrel factory. By 1940, the industries were gone. Now the townsmen cut lumber or work in neighboring communities in shoe factories, mills or government offices. The average family income runs between $3,000 and $4,000 a year. "Downtown" is a cluster of frame buildings, including the abandoned log mill, a general store and a pizza joint. It was in Mount Vernon, where...
Dropping in on a class in the Eskimo language at Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau learned one phrase -possibly the only one a visitor needs in that bleak settlement. The word is takva oost, and it means goodbye...