Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will be just another postcard visit in a career that has taken him all over the world. Born November 27, 1932, he started his professional life as a reporter, covering the Korean War for the Mani la Times ("Those Koreans, they're tough"). He then went to Southeast Asia, covering Vietnam for a couple of years, before becoming the paper's foreign affairs editor. He entered politics as a speech-writer for President Magsaysay...
...neat stone wall graces the entrance to Freeman Field Industrial Park in the otherwise rustic small town of Seymour (pop. 13,100), about 70 miles southeast of Indianapolis. But in the park, there is a dry, mud-caked ditch, and the trees along its banks are dead. Inside a wire fence, an acrid scent brings tears to visitors' eyes. Some of the tidily stacked barrels bear household names: General Electric, Dow Chemical, Shell Oil, Monsanto. Paint sludges collect in sticky red and green pools on the porous ground, and such chemicals as arsenic, benzene, toluene, trichloroethylene and naphthalene ooze...
...recent years it seemed on its way to becoming an economic graveyard. Burdened by the U.S.'s highest energy costs, dying markets and sky-high taxes, a steady stream of shoe, textile and lumber companies closed their doors or headed to more hospitable climes in the Southeast and West. New England first suffered the symptoms of economic decay, depression and disillusionment that have now become so common in American business...
...Soviet naval ships have refueling rights at U.S.-built ports at Danang and Cam Ranh Bay. For Hanoi, Soviet assistance is the key to maintaining its present strong position in Indochina. For Moscow, the partnership keeps China off-balance and helps the Soviets gain influence in all of Southeast Asia. But fiercely independent Viet Nam is no complaisant puppet. Some Western experts believe that Hanoi did not seek prior approval from Moscow before invading Cambodia in December 1978 to unseat the Pol Pot regime. They also think that if it came to a truly hard choice-accepting further Soviet...
...almost a guarantee--somewhere in Boston someone will snap. "City desk to Eddie Moran," the radio squawks around 2:30. "We have a sniper in the Old Westwood Apartments, Norwood--the place is crawling with cops." And he's off, travelling fast down the deserted Southeast Expressway towards Norwood. A few wrong turns, but still there in twenty minutes--just in time to see the policemen return to the station. The desk sergeant says come back tomorrow, no information available, still in booking process, details in the morning, can't help you. But two officers who had just been shot...