Word: regionals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...declared that the dollar volume of 1978 arms transfers would "be reduced from the fiscal year 1977 total" and that such sales would be "an exceptional foreign policy implement." The guidelines also stated that the U.S. would no longer be a "first supplier to introduce [advanced weapons] into a region." Last week Carter took a more specific step: he placed an $8.6 billion ceiling for 1978 on all weapons transfers to nonallied countries. But the effect of the measure on total U.S. arms exports is questionable. It contains so many loopholes that a deft shuffling of figures will permit...
...Southern Growth Policies Board, a 13-state coalition established in 1971, Busbee has become a leader of the South's resistance to efforts by the depressed Northern states to shift federal spending programs from the Sunbelt to the Snowbelt. Explains a Policies Board official: "We have to defend our region." Indeed, precisely that mood is spawning an unmistakable increase in a kind of petulant, poorer-than-thou sectionalism in many parts...
...last week's erratic weather outside the Midwest is any indication, the region should now brace itself for floods. Along the Eastern seaboard, January thaws (the New York City temperature rose to 57°) and heavy rains sent creeks and rivers over their banks, inundated some towns, caused power failures in Washington, D.C., and left hundreds of cars swamped everywhere...
After some hesitation, Moscow has jumped forcefully into the internal wars between its Ethiopian client, the Marxist regime headed by Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, and the rebel forces that have captured chunks of Ethiopian territory in Eritrea on the Red Sea and the Ogaden region bordering the Somali Democratic Republic. In mid-December, big Antonov and Ilyushin transport planes began wheeling into the airport at Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. The airlift, which appears to be concluding, has brought iri $850 million worth of arms, including T-34 tanks, field guns, heavy mortars and light missiles. U.S. officials believe...
Five hundred miles to the southeast, Colonel Mengistu's forces have begun a counteroffensive in the Ogaden region. Last fall ethnic Somali tribesmen, aided by Somalia, overran most of the Ogaden, in what Somalia claims is a liberation war to clear out the Ethiopian "colonizers." Now the fierce but poorly equipped Western Somali Liberation Front is badly overextended, and Somalia claimed last week that Ethiopian forces had launched a major attack out of Harar, one of only two towns in the area that the Ethiopians hold...