Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quake killed 235 people and injured more than 1000 along the Adriatic coast of Southern Yugoslavia and Albania while destroying buildings along a 60-mile strip of coastline including the resort region of Montenegro...
...British Foreign Office said yesterday it will send $160.000 worth of medical and other supplies to the region in response to an aid request from Yugoslavia...
Drinking water is in short supply in the region because the earthquake destroyed piping systems and sewage has polluted springs. Water trucks have made some deliveries to the area...
...also, U.S. analysts believe that Islam and the West have compatible goals. Basically, Islamic states are antiCommunist. Says a senior State Department official: "I think we share a common concern and can work together to develop a set of friendly relationships, which can lead to ultimate stability in the region." Whether or not that proves to be the case, the West can no longer afford to ignore or dismiss the living power of the Prophet's message...
...worst misjudgments followed. As recently as 1967 the head of the Middle East Studies Association wrote a report for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare asserting that the region including the Middle East and North Africa was not a center of cultural achievement, nor was it likely to become one in the near future. The study of the region or its languages, therefore, did not constitute its own reward so far as modern culture is concerned. High school textbooks routinely produced descriptions of Islam like the following: "It was started by a wealthy businessman of Arabia called Muhammad...