Word: regionalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation is divided into five areas known as Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts (PADDS). Late each month, the oil companies estimate just how much fuel they will have available for sale in each region in the coming month. From this total supply, they subtract 5% to be set aside and distributed at the discretion of state authorities to alleviate local crises. They then subtract the amount they will require to supply all the needs of top priority customers like the military and farmers. The rest gets divided among retail gas stations...
...question is nowhere. Of the 65,000 a month who are now fleeing Viet Nam, the world in recent months has been providing permanent accommodation for 10,000. The rest of the Vietnamese, along with other refugees from Cambodia and Laos, have been trapped at temporary camps in the region: besides the 76,000 in Malaysia, there are 161,000 in Thailand, 32,000 in Indonesia, 58,000 in Hong Kong. Last month Thailand repatriated 42,000 Cambodians at gunpoint, sending them back across the border to danger and possible death. Thousands are forcibly kept on ships in Hong Kong...
...nightclub, several silver shops, a produce market, a makeshift gym and an arts and crafts center. Farther south, camps for Cambodians are little more than barbed-wire enclosures. The Vietnamese camps are the worst of all because of their makeshift locations and because, in the ancient racism of the region, the refugees from Viet Nam are hated wherever they...
None of the officials--Stephen J. Browne, vice president; Alan M. Cody, vice president and head of the Eastern region; William F. Kassner, vice president for financial marketing; and Robert W. West, vice president for marketing--were available for comment yesterday...
Astride the silk and spice routes, the region, known as Bactria in ancient times, came under the influence of numerous cultures: Indian, Mongolian, Parthian (a Persian people), nomadic (from the Eurasian steppes) and even Roman. All collided with the Hellenistic Greek domination of Alexander the Great, who conquered Bactria in 331 B.C., and his Seleucid successors. Two centuries later, the Greco-Bactrian kingdom was overrun by nomadic groups, among them the Parthians, Saka from the steppes and five Central Asiatic tribes called the Yiieh-Chih...