Word: northwest
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...government's press spokesman, gave a few new details of the Popieluszko autopsy report last week. He said that the priest died from strangulation rather than from any injuries he sustained in a beating and was dead when his body was tossed into a reservoir 90 miles northwest of Warsaw. Earlier reports had said that Popieluszko might still have been alive when he was thrown into the water. Urban also confirmed that the four police officers arrested in the case will go on trial soon and that the proceedings will be open to the foreign press. At week...
...Swiss alerted the Italian secret service, which immediately swung into action. In a predawn raid, agents broke into two apartments in the seaside resort of Ladispoli, 24 miles northwest of Rome. There they rounded up seven young Lebanese, all students at the University of Rome. In the apartments the Italian agents found volumes of propaganda for Islamic Jihad, the outfit that claimed responsibility for the Beirut embassy bombing, as well as last year's suicide attack on the U.S. Marine compound in Beirut in which 241 American servicemen died. The agents also discovered a suspiciously accurate plan...
Cambridge Mayor Leonard J. Russell may throw a wrench into Harvard's plans for developing the site of an old elementary school it recently purchased about one-half mile northwest of Radcliffe Yard...
...addition to the known or anticipated fruits of space exploration, there are the discoveries as yet unknown. Though past explorers often failed to find what they were looking for-the Fountain of Youth, a Northwest Passage-they often stumbled across wonders they never dreamed of, from precious stones to uncharted oceans. Says James Seevers, an astronomer at Chicago's Adler Planetarium: "Out of the atmosphere of earth, you have an utterly clear view of the planets and the stars and the galaxy. The entire universe is open to you. We've probably learned as much in the past...
...professionalism and skill of India's military was put to the test immediately upon independence in 1947. In accordance with the partition agreement creating the new predominantly Muslim entity of Pakistan, bordering India to both the northwest and east, the army was divided between the two nations roughly in proportion to their respective populations. Throughout the horrible violence and bloodshed following the separation, especially in the crucial northwest Indian state of Punjab, both forces exercised restraint toward one another and constant obedience to their respective governments, a rare occurrence indeed in war-torn underdeveloped countries...