Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expectations of Carter's influence on Israel," Neff and Wynn cabled, "these nations sincerely believe that the only road to peace leads through the White House. The danger for Carter is that if he fails to produce peace, he will be blamed vehemently by the Arabs and the region will be set perilously adrift, possibly toward war. In a bewildered, bellicose mood, Israel quite conceivably could defy Carter's considerable leverage on that small country by opting for war. The Arabs have everything to gain if Carter's peace plan works. But if it does not, they...
...Eritreans today are also supported by most of the other Arab states-Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq and Kuwait. The Arabs have always tended to favor the Eritreans over the Ethiopians because they wanted the region to be Arab-oriented. Today the Arab states support Eritrea for an additional reason: the Soviets support Eritrea's enemy, Ethiopia. The Arabs are anxious that the Horn of Africa should not become a Russian zone of influence...
Dawson's plight is common to the Southeastern U.S. From central Florida to Atlanta to eastern Mississippi, the drought has already doomed such staples as hay and corn, normally harvested this month. The soybean, cotton and peanut crops are all endangered. Parts of the region are suffering their worst water shortage in nearly a quarter of a century. With most of the Far West and large stretches of the Midwest also in the throes of a prolonged dry spell (see map), the acting director of the Department of Agriculture's crop weather reporting service, Lyle Benny, cites...
...rumors began when Radio Uganda announced that Amin would attend a celebration in the country's northwestern region; no further mention of the festivities was made in following days. The anti-Amin Kenya press reported that Amin had been ambushed by an assassination squad somewhere between Kampala and Entebbe. According to one Nairobi paper, the attempted coup was engineered by a Ugandan army major, but Amin had been tipped off and escaped with minor wounds. The alleged coup leaders were then said to have fled to Kenya...
...trappers spoke of smoking hills, springs that spewed torrents of boiling mud and water, and cliffs of black glass. In 1870 Washburn and Hedges decided to have a look for themselves. What they saw so impressed them that they decided the region had to be preserved. On March 1, 1872, legislation establishing the 2-million-acre Yellowstone National Park-first in the country and the world-was signed into law by President Ulysses Grant. Now the National Park Service, created in 1916, administers a 31-million-acre empire likely to double in size once Congress acts to acquire additional parkland...