Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have had yet another goal in its Polish stop: to head off the ousting of Gomulka that was rumored imminent. His most likely replacement is Edward Giereck, a Politburo member in his mid-50s who was once a miner and is now party boss of the big Katowice industrial region of Poland...
...Nana Kwame Ofori made a pronouncement that was officially translated: "This exercise will be given the maximum support." Dr. William H. Stewart, Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, replied that it was a good thing so many countries were cooperating in an onslaught against two of the region's deadliest infectious diseases. Stewart pointed out that although Ghana has rung up a fine vaccination record recently, reported cases of smallpox have actually increased, because the disease has been imported by travelers visiting the country from other regions...
...voluntary controls administered by the Federal Reserve Board. As with investment controls, the new rules will hit Europe hardest. The Reserve Board asked banks to refuse to renew outstanding loans on the Continent when they mature and to reduce their short-term (less than a year) loans in the region by 40% during 1968. Just to make sure banks cooperate, the President also gave the Fed stand-by power to make the restrictions compulsory...
...Swallows and an anthropophagous eagle whose calcified remains the whites named Shiprock. Yet there is no Navajo name for the meteorological monster that in ten days left the tribe -and much of the Southwest-buried beneath a man-and-cattle-killing, 7-ft.-deep snowfall, the worst in the region's history...
...troops and tanks, he set out from Orleansville, 105 miles southwest of Algiers, and began rolling toward the capital. He expected no resistance. Army cohorts in Algiers had promised to disrupt government communications, and he was counting on the support of Major Said Abid, commander of the First Military Region, who controlled the approaches to Algiers. There was one flaw in the plot: Boumediene's secret police knew its every detail. Forewarned, the President quickly crushed the coup, dispatching his own troops and planes to ambush the insurgent column near the old French colonial town of Blida...