Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn to geo-political issues. The President considers Nigeria to be a key mediator in African security problems, especially in southern Africa. Nigerian Chief of State Lieut. General Olusegun Obasanjo has taken a strong stand in favor of peaceful accession to black majority rule in the white-dominated southern region...
...most heroic and effective anti-Israel group around. But the Arab dislike of Palestinians arises largely from the fact that under the British, who ruled Palestine through a League of Nations mandate for 30 years after World War I, they became the best-educated people in the region. They have produced more doctors, lawyers, teachers and scientists (Arafat is an engineer by training) than any Arab nation, and their women are the most liberated in the Arab world...
Beating the energy crisis is a cinch for hundreds of residents of Western Pennsylvania: they merely sink a well in their own backyard to tap the region's substantial deposits of natural gas. Though the area's gas fields are hardly in the same league as those in Texas and Louisiana, supplies are more than adequate to meet the heating and cooking needs of individual households and even provide an energy source for factories and electric utilities. The pace of new drilling has markedly quickened as the price of fuel has rocketed. Last year, for example, 674 wells...
...state line where the north Texas plains lap at the Arkansas hills. State Line Avenue, which divides the two Texarkanas, is a garish neon strip with honky-tonks and liquor outlets on the Arkansas side facing fast-food and, religious book stores on the dry Texas side. The region's wooded terrain makes it an appealing hiding place for the so-called Dixie Mafia, a loosely confederated band of car thieves, dope runners, hijackers and assorted thugs who prey on towns across the South...
...leaving another 100,000 homeless, the Israelis have gone beyond the point of understandable retaliation. The original question of whether a reprisal was justified becomes an irrelevant one--smashed to pieces by an invasion that raises far more serious questions about the future of peace efforts in the region...