Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ship since an iceberg sent her and more than 1,500 of the 2,200 passengers to the bottom of the sea on her maiden voyage in April 1912. "It was a breathtaking experience," says Marine Geologist Robert Ballard, 44, who located the wreck last September some 350 miles southeast of Newfoundland and 13,000 ft. beneath the surface, and returned last week to explore...
...true what they say about Dixie?/Does the sun really shine all the time?" The lyrics of the old song have been given a cruel gloss by the pitiless two-week-old heat wave that has baked the life out of the Southeast. Ten days of sauna-like temperatures of 100 degrees or more have exacerbated four months of drought, perhaps the worst dry spell in the region's history. So far, 15 people have died of heat prostration. Peanuts, hay and cotton have shriveled; the agricultural loss in Georgia is already estimated at $140 million. In North Carolina, some...
THAT'S ANOTHER THING that the West has on its side--God. He provided the morals on which we base all our conceptions of right or wrong. And he's never let us down. Well, maybe once in Southeast Asia. Or when we fought each other, because he had to let at least one person down. That's happening again. South Africa thinks it has God on its side, well, at least they think they're right. And they couldn't care less if Reagan threatens to no longer call them Western. The South Africans actually consider themselves the true...
...fire talks between the government of President Corazon Aquino and Communist insurgents, guerrilla warfare has not ceased. In fact, in three separate actions last week, members of the Communist New People's Army / ambushed and killed government soldiers. In the first attack, which occurred near Gumaca, about 90 miles southeast of Manila, guerrillas killed 13 military people. Two days later, eleven soldiers died in an ambush some 230 miles north of Manila. The following day, seven more were killed in a shoot-out in the Aurora province...
Last week Secretary of State George Shultz made a five-stop Asian trip to bolster those ties against recent strains, and to coincide with the annual meeting in Manila of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The Manila trip, Shultz's second visit to the Philippines since Corazon Aquino toppled Ferdinand Marcos in February, was also intended to show staunch U.S. support for the new Filipino President, whose fledgling administration lacks the stability of an established government...