Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of the nation and the world, the South is Selma. And there will be more Selmas: more demonstrations, more violence, more blind resistance to justice, more bitter words hissed between black and white. But there is another South, a region of quiet, solid, if often agonizing, progress. That other South, all too easily overlooked, was not created this year or ten years ago; it was not brought into being only by an act of the Supreme Court or only by the exertions of the civil rights movement. It has long existed in the hearts of some men. But only...
...Peking faction working against Bulgaria's Russian protectors. They even planted a story that General Anev had fled to sanctuary in Albania, Red China's nearby ally. But it was not that simple. Anev was actually captured in his native village near the Yugoslav border, in a region long noted for its opposition to foreign invaders-Russian or otherwise. There, 20 years ago, he and Todorov-Gorunya had led an anti-Nazi guerrilla group...
...World to be colonized, Brazil's Northeast reigned as sugar king for 200 years until Caribbean producers dethroned it in the 18th century. Then its markets dried up, and the land went backward, ignored by the rest of the nation. In this "other" Brazil, a bare, beaten region more than twice the size of Texas, 26 million Brazilians live in misery, almost 80% of them illiterate, disease and hunger holding the average life span to an appalling 35 years. Most nordestinos wring a grudging subsistence from the land, which is alternately scorched by drought and ravaged by flood...
Industrial Push. The first faint breezes of change came in the 1950s when President Getúlio Vargas established the Bank of the Northeast to make economic studies of the area and handle industrial financing. Soon after, the Communists began exploiting the region's miseries by organizing Peasant Leagues, some 50,000 strong, to take over the land by force. Then the Roman Catholic Church jumped in, set up schools to teach reading and writing, started its own labor unions-at risk of rupture with the powerful landlords who had long held the peasants in virtual peonage. The government...
...sending countless tons of water hurtling down the river. Thousands of residents in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa evacuated their homes as the river rose as much as 12 ft. above flood stage; in St. Paul it crested at 27 ft., in Minneapolis at 21 ft. Parts of the region already were under water as townspeople rushed to the riverbanks to help man the levees. Red Cross stations were ready with food and first aid while the mighty river roiled and rose. And worse was expected to come...