Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...submarine every five weeks and 800 warplanes a year. This year alone, it added 2,000 new tanks to its arsenal, while America's tank force grew at only about one-fifth that figure. This arms imbalance is especially dangerous in NATO's north-central region, stretching from the Baltic to the Alps, where numerous areas of excellent tank terrain offer an inviting route of march from the Elbe to the Rhine or over the English Channel...
Rescue workers could only guess at the actual extent of devastation on the remote, snow-covered slopes 600 miles east of Ankara, though past experience with tremors in the earthquake-prone region has taught them to expect the worst. Last year a quake hit the area, leaving 3,000 dead. In 1939 another seismic catastrophe took 30,000 lives. This time more than 120 towns and villages were affected, some of them isolated by 8 in. of snow on the narrow mountain roads. In the settlement of Alikelle, only two people survived out of 70 families. In the town...
Subtitled Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, this astonishingly accomplished first book by an American-born Chinese woman haunts a region somewhere between autobiography and fiction. Yet it hardly matters whether the woman who tells (or muses) the book's five stories is literally Maxine Hong Kingston. Art has intervened here. The stories may or may not be transcripts of actual experience. They are, unquestionably, triumphant journeys of the imagination through a desolation of spirit...
...results of the study, much of which focuses on New England, may be used to help solve some of the region's economic problems. But Robert A. Leone '67, assistant professor of Business Administration and one of the chief investigators in the study, said yesterday, "The study would not be a success if it is not also useful to people in other areas...
Passionately articulate on Quebec, Lévesque is intensely guarded in his private life. By temperament he is a loner with few close friends. Separated for the past six years from his wife, he lavishes attention on his three grown children. Born in the bucolic Gaspé Peninsula region of Quebec, Lévesque left law school in 1943 to serve with the U.S. Office of War Information as a European radio correspondent. In the 1950s he moved on to television and speedily became the most popular news commentator in Quebec. Lévesque's pouchy eyes, nervous mannerisms...