Word: regions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...space. They had just settled in to await the firing of the computer-controlled rocket that was programmed to decelerate the spacecraft from its orbital speed for the descent into the atmosphere. Accounts of what happened next differ, but indications are that as the ship passed through a twilight region of space between day and night, an infrared sensor, which fixes the spacecraft's position in relation to earth, was confused by rays of sunlight. The unexpected signal caused the computer to abort the normal firing...
...offensive in northern Iraq resulted in one of the biggest setbacks for the Kurds since they started agitating for autonomy decades ago. The European powers that signed the 1920 Treaty of Sevres never honored a provision granting independence to the Kurds. Instead, the region they inhabited in what was formerly the Ottoman Empire was divided among five countries that are now home to 20 million Kurds: Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria and the Soviet Union. Reflecting confidence that it now has the latest uprising under control, Iraq last week proclaimed an amnesty for Kurdish rebels...
They are already known as the "first Canadians." Now 13,000 native Indians and metis (of mixed European and Indian stock) who inhabit the Mackenzie River Valley in Canada's Northwest Territories are about to become the region's biggest landlords. With drums beating a steady cadence and 1,000 Dogrib, Slavey, Chipewyan and Cree Indians and metis looking on, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney last week signed a tentative agreement calling for $403 million and 109,000 sq. mi. of federal lands to be turned over to native peoples in the western subarctic end of the region that stretches across...
...ITCA Region One Team Championships (Princeton...
...ITCA Region One Individual Championships (Philadelphia...