Word: southeast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shortly after dawn, five helicopter gunships took off from the Palanquero military air base southeast of Medellin. Thirty minutes later, skimming over the treetops of the Colombian jungle, the clattering swarm descended on a ranch outside the Magdalena River town of Puerto Triunfo. Thirty members of Colombia's elite National Police antinarcotics unit jumped from the copters and began searching the grounds. Their eventual payoff: discovery of three complexes containing eight cocaine laboratories. After the raiders methodically burned chemical dumps and bunkhouses, a five-man explosives team blew up brick buildings, generators and 15,000-gal. chemical holding tanks...
Another example of Catholics' reluctance to follow Church teaching is seen in their reaction, or lack thereof, to the January decision by the Reagan Administration to restrict the number of Southeast Asian refugees allowed into the country. It's no coincidence that this policy shift comes amidst nationalist cries over the "Yellow Peril" in education, real estate ownership and economic competitiveness. If American Catholics were to recognize that every-one deserves an equal chance at the freedoms and opportunities that the United States can provide, pressure against such a policy would be enormous...
...liberal press was giving him such a hard time for serving in the National Guard during 'Nam. I told him not to worry because those damned limp wrists knew more about the weather in Ottawa in the late '60s than they did about what our boys were doing in Southeast Asia. Still, I think you and Boydsy are right. I don't want them after...
Harvard students help recent immigrants from Latin America and Southeast Asia to gain a working knowledge of English, enough to get skilled employment...
...least 106 bullets. As children screamed in pain and fear, Purdy placed a 9-mm pistol to his head and killed himself. When the four- minute assault was over, five children, ages 6 to 9, were dead. One teacher and 29 pupils were wounded. Those killed were all Southeast Asians, from war-refugee groups that make up 71% of the school's enrollment...