Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though these days it tends to break down more between younger and older Afrikaners, farmers and city dwellers. If the choice is for a verligte approach, South Africa?and the West?might yet be able to buy a little time to try to salvage a peaceable future in the region. If the verkrampte forces prevail, the confrontation between the U.N. and South Africa could come within months. In that event, the U.S. and Britain will have to join in economic sanctions or see the total collapse of the humane African policy, based on self-determination for blacks, that they have...
Policymakers in Washington and other Western capitals are in as excruciating a dilemma as Amin. Do they offer aid to prop up a shaky regime ?which then might drop in the Russians' lap? Or let the government collapse?and risk a widening guerrilla war in an unstable region? Moscow, which has waited patiently since the time of the czars to consolidate its hold, faces no such agonizing choice...
Responding to the purge threats, Khmer Rouge deserters combined with restive peasants to form a 25,000-man "liberation force" under the leadership of So Phim, a disaffected former Vice President of Democratic Kampuchea. The Vietnamese already occupy large areas of the so-called Fishhook region south of Mondolkiri province and a strategic bulge of Cambodia from Cheom Ksan to the Mekong River. They are now fighting for control of Parrot's Beak, where the U.S. invaded in 1970 (see map). Vietnamese troops are massing in Laos, near the Cambodian frontier. When the monsoon ends in October, clearing skies will...
...haven't really worked out the details of how the research will be allocated and conducted," Steven King, USDA regional administrator of the northeast region, said yesterday. A planning committee, which is expected to include Robert Geyer, chairman of the Department of Nutrition, will meet in October to work out administrative details, he added...
...quake hit the area in 1857, Sieh concludes, "a major earthquake can be expected there within the next 50 years or so rather than, say, the next 500." Sieh may well be right. His telltale marsh is only 24 km (15 miles) from Palmdale, the center of a region that has been bulging upward for 17 years in what some seismologists feel is a prelude to a major earthquake...