Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...district Anderson represents is American heartland, the northwest corner of Illinois, where the farming is good and the biggest city, Rockford, has a population of 272,000. Anderson has been the Congressman here since 1960, and he has served his constituents and party well...
Meanwhile, the war continued in Afghanistan. The six divisions that the Soviet Union threw into the country, which have an estimated strength of about 92,000 men, have maintained control over population centers, but fighting was reported last week in the northeast and northwest sections. Soviet correspondents reported that saboteurs were blowing up bridges and communications lines in several regions, forcing the Afghan army to remain on constant alert. Pravda admitted that the Afghan "bandits," as it refers to the rebels, remained active, adding: "Storm clouds hang over the republic from the Pakistani and the Chinese sides of the border...
Yellowfish is a searching novel of the contemporary Pacific Northwest that relies on an unchanging principle of the American adventure yarn: free, capable men enjoy bending the law, especially when they can keep moving at high speed. The book's title is slang for Chinese immigrants who illegally enter the U.S. Its hero, Wesley Erks, is heir to the frontier spirit, a man with "an eye used to sighting down a fence line and the barrel of a shotgun." But Erks is also a thoughtful man for whom yellowfish begin as a commodity to be hauled...
...Soviets were to launch a military attack, chances are that it would be not in the Northwest Frontier but along the 300-mile stretch of border that cuts through lands occupied by the rebellious Baluch peoples, who live astride Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Baluchis, who have long yearned for autonomy, might welcome a Soviet-inspired Afghan invading force that would promise to honor the Baluchis' "legitimate aspirations" -as Afghanistan's new President, Babrak Karmal, has vowed to do. A friendly regime in a breakaway Baluchistan would give the Soviets an outlet to the Arabian...
...semiautomatic rifle fire at their feet when they tried to film Soviet soldiers near the Salang Pass. A Kabul-based stringer for Germany's Der Spiegel had her car tires shot flat. TIME'S David DeVoss, traveling with Dutch Photographer Hubert Van Es, was stopped by Soviets northwest of Kabul when Van Es tried to photograph some newly widened artillery pits. The pair was held in a snow-filled ditch and guarded by four Kalashnikov-toting Soviets...