Word: regions
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Wisconsin's Seventh District, a picturesque region of forests, lakes and dairy farms, has long been an unassailable Republican stronghold. Before last week, the Seventh had not sent a single Democrat to Congress in this century, and it elected Melvin Laird to nine consecutive terms on Capitol Hill before he moved to the Pentagon. Thus, as the G.O.P. nominee in a special election held last week to choose Laird's successor, State Senator Walter J. Chilsen felt pretty good about his chances. Chilsen, 45, a former television newscaster from Wausau, felt so good, in fact, that he rather...
...Katushev came in the mid-1960s, when he became a protege of Brezhnev. Just how this happened is still a mystery in the West, since, as far as Kremlinologists are aware, the two men's careers never crossed. In 1965, Katushev became the party head of the Gorky region. Two-and-a-half years later, he was plucked out of Gorky, where he had spent his life, and set down in Moscow. Last April Katushev was given one of the party's most sensitive and difficult assignments: he was put in charge of Soviet relations with Communist countries...
Playing on the longstanding resentment of East Pakistan's Bengalis over the economic and political dominance of West Pakistan, the two Easterners called for far more substantial autonomy for their region. They also wanted parliamentary representation by population (58% of the population of the dissected country live in the eastern sector) rather than by the 50-50 representational split that now prevails in the federal government. The fiery Bhashani warned that if the elections proceed before autonomy is granted, "we will set ablaze the polling booths...
...west, the border between Soviet Central Asia and the Chinese region of Sinkiang runs for much of the way along the majestic peaks of the Tien Shan range of mountains. Late last year, a Japanese tourist persuaded his Intourist guide to allow him a day close to the Soviet side of the border. He saw no troops, nor indeed any sign of unusual military activity, but he returned dazzled by the natural beauty of the area. "The Soviets called it a second Switzerland," he said later, "and it was-so lovely, peaceful and sparsely populated...
...tacit Soviet support. Even after Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communists came to power in 1949, tensions in Sinkiang continued to seethe, though relations between Moscow and Peking were at least superficially cordial. To the east, all was generally calm. The border between Russia's Maritime Kray (Region) and the Chinese province of Heilungkiang was fixed by the Treaties of Aigun (1858) and Peking (1860), and in the 100 peaceful years that followed the Russians built up the huge Far Eastern port of Vladivostok and linked it with western Russia via the Trans-Siberian Railway...