Word: southeasterly
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Critics seem puzzled by many Americans' desire to dramatically retaliate against countries the U.S. perceives as a threat to its citizens, such as Libya for supporting terrorism and several Southeast Asian nations, including Hong Kong, for the U.S. trade deficit. But foreign observers are confused by America's insistence on seeing these issues in terms of black-and-white. Are Americans unable to comprehend the complexity of issues, they asked. Or can they only register anecdotes, just the way David Stockman describes President Reagan's power of understanding...
...lustrous, their complexions delicately olive, their looks a spicy blend of innocence and experience. And the names of these exotic sirens are . . . Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Beals. From the go-slow huts of socialist Burma to the go-go bars of socializing Bangkok, the hands-down pinups of Southeast Asia are the Yale flashdancer with exactly two movies to her credit and the pouting young starlet from Private School. Farrah, Christie, even local actresses hardly get a look-in. Unlike many American fan letters, reports Cates, "the ones from Thailand are all so sweet and complimentary." Ah, the blunders...
Bulldozers last week razed the charred ruins at Crossroads, a black squatter camp five miles southeast of Cape Town, where fierce fighting between radical youths and conservative vigilante groups left at least 36 dead and more than 30,000 homeless. At the same time, the South African government was debating new measures to grant security forces sweeping powers to control the turbulence that has wracked the country for the past 21 months. Critics charge that the proposals, which would allow police to detain people for up to 180 days without trial, will reinforce the apartheid system and virtually reinstitute...
Perhaps the most ubiquitous form of plastic trash is the tiny polyethylene pellets used in the manufacture of plastic items. In one survey, researchers calculated that, on average, a square mile of the Sargasso Sea, southeast of Florida, contained between 8,000 and 10,000 bobbing pellets. Says Al Pruter, a fishery biologist and partner in a Seattle-based natural- resources consulting firm: "Almost without exception, surveys show plastic to account for over one-half the man-made products on the ocean surface...
...Nancy Reagan visited a group of Balinese exhibits within the safe confines of the Nusa Dua Beach Hotel complex and made a game try at Balinese dancing, her husband met with Indonesian President Suharto and the foreign ministers of the six members of the 19-year-old Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)--Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Brunei. Early in his speech, Reagan told an anecdote about two men who are running away from a bear they encountered in a forest. When one man stops to put on his running shoes, the other asks incredulously...