Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Life is a struggle for Milagros San Buenaventura. To feed her eleven children, she sells kalamansi, a bittersweet native lime, at market stalls in the city of Naga, 140 miles southeast of Manila. At night she prays hard, begging for protection against disasters that may strike at her, at her city, at her country. But the troubles keep coming closer. Two months ago rebels of the Communist New People's Army blew up four strategic bridges, severing rail lines between Naga and Manila. Soon after, the army escalated its war with the N.P.A., further disrupting the local economy. Then...
Mabus announced that his first business will be to raise the pay of schoolteachers to the average of the other states in the Southeast, $23,100. That will cost the state close to $165 million, and he proposed, perhaps unrealistically, to fund the hike without raising taxes. His brashness alone might go a long way toward restoring his state's pride. When asked which state would serve as his model for education reform and economic development, he replied, "The one state that people ought to look at is Mississippi. We're gonna be an inspiration...
Cloud's assignments have been tempestuous. In 1970 he was kicked out of the U.S.S.R. after the magazine published an unflattering portrait of Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev. Cloud then made his way to the war in Southeast Asia. In Kampuchea, he was helicoptered into a town only to discover that a North Vietnamese siege he thought had been lifted was still going on. Under heavy fire, Cloud was trapped for two and a half days. Says Cloud: "I must admit that there's a certain thrill in being in dangerous situations -- and surviving...
Imamura screened his 1987 film, "Zegen" last night, and it will be shown again tonight and Saturday. The film depicts the life of a Japanese man who sells prostitutes to brothels in Southeast Asia. It stars Ken Ogata, the key actor in several Imamura films. "Zegen" deals with the issues of patriotism, imperialism and particularly feminism, said Vladimir K. Petric, director of the Harvard Film Archives...
...disaster, the exact location of the ship was unknown. It was not until 1985 that an expedition mounted by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the French Institute for Research and Development of the Sea (IFREMER) found it broken into two pieces in the North Atlantic, about 350 miles southeast of Newfoundland, in 12,500 ft. of water. The following year, Woods Hole Marine Geologist Robert Ballard returned to probe inside the rusting hull and take photographs. But Ballard's crew left the ship and its artifacts undisturbed and urged others to do the same as a memorial to those...