Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...express of the Pacific. Three times each week the airline's two jets, both coated with Teflon to fight the corrosive effects of salty coral runways, hop among Micronesia's six island airports on Truk, Kwajalein, Yap, Ponape, Majuro and Palau. It is a measure of the region's isolation-the nights range up to 1,451 miles nonstop-that no plane travels without a mechanic and spare parts. Says Captain Lee Minors, 43, who prepped for atoll landings on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Hornet in the 1950s: "This is the last place...
...contemplate his journey to Jerusalem?a move at once simple and awesome like the Pyramids themselves. We do know that not far from this resthouse Israeli and Egyptian negotiators have been meeting now for two weeks in an old hotel. It is in keeping with the spirit of a region where mirage and reality blend that the negotiators are at a bureaucratic level, which guarantees that no significant progress could be made until Premier Begin and President Sadat had met in Ismailia. But the mere presence of Israeli diplomats in Cairo has lent itself to the symbolic manifestations of public...
...smash the psychological mold of a generation; to the courageous Premier of Israel who seized a unique moment of history; and to all the peoples of the Middle East whose inarticulate aspirations, prayers and sacrifices have created the prevailing climate for peace. Appropriately enough for this season, the barren region of the Middle East, which has spawned in its lonely spaces three great religions, has become once again the focal point of humanity's highest hopes...
Peace, Shakespeare's "dear nurse of arts, plenties and joyful births," succors national life at last. Broadway and region al theater flourishes; attendance at museums is the highest in history. In December the first child was born in the new homeland of a tribe of America's oldest people, the Mohawk Indians, who won a piece of state land at Ganienkeh, N.Y., after a three-year struggle. Indeed, both the nation's birth and marriage rates rose in 1977. Though serious problems persist in the U.S., a sense of well-being and restored community pervades...
...Chinese Manchuria. (Soviet sources suggested that it might have originated in Southeast Asia as it has appeared in Hong Kong.) For obscure reasons, the Siberia-Manchuria border and nearby areas are suspected of having been the spawning ground of almost all, if not all, epidemic-causing influenza viruses. This region has been indicted as the birthplace of the notorious A-2 strain of Asian Flu that swept the world in 1957-58. The offspring and collaterals of that virus remain the principal causes of flu outbreaks around the globe...