Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small stagnant pools. Some 45,000 acres, rich with wildlife, fossils and Indian relics, will be inundated. Randall Grace, former executive director of the Tombigbee River Conservation Council, asserts that the project will "transform northeastern Mississippi into a huge garbage dump. The promoters say that it will turn the region into the Ruhr Valley of the South, without realizing how polluted the Ruhr...
...employees, military advisers, businessmen, technicians, teachers-life has been a matter of steadily rising tension, isolation and harassment as the anti-Shah demonstrations have taken on an ever more anti-American tone. Most have endured it anxiously but stoically. Says a U.S. oil executive in a southern oil-producing region: "So many of us have sent our families away and are half packed that there aren't many more measures we can take...
...commandant of the national gendarmerie and now Water Resources Minister, and Colonel Mohammed Salah Yahiaoui, 46, a devout Muslim and pro-Soviet politician who is currently running the F.L.N. Outside the council, the name most often mentioned is that of Colonel Benjedid Chadli, 52, military commander of the Oran region, who took over as "coordinator" of the armed forces during Boumedienne's long illness. Virtually no chance at all is given to the long deposed Ben Bella. At 62, he is living in comfortable house arrest...
...sidestep this touchy issue by avoiding Puebla, but he has evidently never doubted the need to attend. He was guided in part by his interest in human rights and in part by the fact that some 300 million of the world's 700 million Catholics live in the region. As he observed in his Christmas address to the College of Cardinals: "Some say that the future of the church will be decided in Latin America, and there is some truth in that...
...hemorrhoids are internal, away from the lower rectum's nerve endings, physicians often rely on a technique known as rubber-band ligation. A tiny rubber band is looped tightly around the swollen region. No longer drawing nourishing blood, the hemorrhoid withers away. Carter, plagued by hemorrhoids since college, had just such a procedure in 1974. Some doctors inject a special solution into nearby tissue that constricts the vessels and thus cuts off the blood supply. Still another technique involves dilating, or widening, the anus with stretching devices...