Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China. Relations are difficult, not just because of the Kampuchea problem. China wanted Viet Nam to be its satellite, and through Viet Nam, Kampuchea and Laos expand China's power into Southeast Asia...
...benefits and without political conditions. International trade is important to our future, especially with our neighbors and with Japan. Many private companies have already established economic ties with Viet Nam. We want to see those expand. I believe we are moving in the direction of the economic integration of Southeast Asia...
...Reagan Administration accused the Soviet Union of engaging in biochemical warfare against rebel groups in Laos and Kampuchea. Citing eyewitness reports and physical evidence, the State Department said that Soviet-backed forces had dropped a "yellow rain" of fungal poisons from the skies in Southeast Asia, killing and injuring thousands of civilians and insurgent troops. The charge was vehemently denied by the Soviets, and now an article in the autumn issue of Foreign Policy accuses the Administration of ignoring evidence that refuted its stunning claim...
Using declassified documents filed by a U.S. team sent to Southeast Asia to investigate the allegations, the article says that experts were unable to find proof of biochemical warfare. Alleged witnesses recanted reports of the yellow rain, and the team found that the supposed symptoms caused by the toxin -- vomiting, skin irritation and dizziness -- were more likely the effects of smoke inhalation and battle fatigue. Moreover, the authors say, private examination of the yellowish substance on leaf samples determined the "poison" was composed almost entirely of pollen. The suspected source of the yellow rain: swarms of honeybees that dropped...
With charity in mind, Father Giuseppe Federici, a parish priest in Latina, 37 miles southeast of Rome, opened the doors of his church to about 50 East European refugees camped outside last month. Within three days, however, their numbers had burgeoned to almost 600. It took a month for Italian authorities to find new lodgings for the refugees...