Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal Tito, firming up his truculent stand against Moscow, spoke bluntly last week to army officers guarding Yugoslavia's border region of Macedonia, where Cominform agents are making plenty of trouble for Tito's regime. His words were really directed across the frontier at Bulgaria, and at Russia beyond...
...Potenza is a sunbaked community in southern Italy on a hilltop overlooking the Basento valley near the instep of the Italian boot. During the war, the U.S. Army had a rest center there for its troops. Today few foreigners enter this desolate, impoverished region whose capital is Potenza...
...with arms for his village guard. Dimitrios, in turn, denounced as Communists many of his fellow villagers. The army never noticed that most of those he denounced were husbands or fiances of pretty village women. Nor did the army find it suspicious that, whenever the guerrillas attacked in the region, Klidi was spared...
...last two summers Drs. Albert W. Bellamy and Kermit Larson, of the University of California at Los Angeles, have been working with a party of twelve helpers in the region around Trinity. To calm local worries, they pretended that they were studying local plants and animals. Actually, they were estimating the biological effects of the atomic explosion. They collected over 600 different kinds of plants. They trapped a variety of animals and examined them for radioactivity and possible organic changes. They measured the radioactivity of the soil over a wide region...
...conditions in this region and in the crater still dangerous to man? Says Dr Bellamy: "No man knows. No firm answer can be given." The radioactivity in the crater itself, he thinks, may last two or three hundred years...