Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guarding tandem of juniors Garry Kanstra and Hall Moore have put the Bearcats among the top three independents in the Ohio valley region, behind perennial powerhouse Notre Dame and improved Illinois State...
Recent events in and concerning the Middle East suggest that creation of a new Palestinian nation is inevitable. The sooner Israel realizes this the sooner a genuine peace will come to that region...
...hillbilly," Miller says with an Appalachian twang, "and I'm proud of that." The son and grandson of miners, he was born in the town of Leewood (pop. 250), in the Cabin Creek region southeast of Charleston, W. Va. After finishing a ninth-grade education ("It was all they had"), he went down into the mines at 16. He eagerly enlisted in the Army in World War II and fought in North Africa, Sicily and the Normandy invasion, where his face was horribly disfigured by machine-gun fire. Miller spent two years in military hospitals, enduring 19 operations...
...paper in 1956. "Pierce their eyes. Cut off their arms and hang them." F.L.N. militants took the words to heart, striking at the French, both in Algeria and in France itself, and at Algerian Moslems who refused to cooperate. In 1957 the F.L.N. murdered 300 residents of the Kabylia region whom they suspected of cooperating with a rival group. The French vowed never to talk with such murderers, but both sides eventually sat across a negotiating table at Evian-les-Bains...
...blacks had long been plagued by many poverty-related ailments, from iron-deficiency anemia to parasitic infections like hookworm. The hospital alone could not significantly reduce the incidence of these ailments, but it did help those who came to it. Although the death rate for babies born in the region is more than 35 per 1,000 live births (among the nation's highest), there were only five deaths among the 1,047 babies born last year at Mound Bayou's community hospital...