Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a 16-year hiatus, the Pentagon wants to begin producing new chemical weapons again to replace its aging stockpile of existing ones. The White House contends that the Soviets have used chemical munitions in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia and claims that the Gorbachev proposal is merely a propaganda move aimed at winning support in Europe before his summit with Reagan in November. While that may be the case, the Administration continues to find itself faced with agile Soviet diplomatic gambits that could give the Kremlin a public relations advantage, particularly among America's European allies...
...nutshell, the storyline focuses on Detective Sargeant Stanley White (Rourke), a Vietnam Vet-turned policeman propelled by a Ramboesque obsession with the American military failure in Southeast Asia and a steely determination to flush out the undesirable element from what he regards as a cesspool of Sino-American corruption--New York City's Chinatown...
...Gabriel and San Fernando valleys of Los Angeles, but in mid-August the Night Stalker moved north to San Francisco, entering a house in the Lakeside district and killing a 66-year-old accountant. Last week he struck in Mission Viejo, an Orange County community 50 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. "My wife said maybe we shouldn't leave all the doors and windows open because of that stalker," recalled Charles Prather of Chrisanta Drive. "I said, 'How many houses are there between here and San Francisco?' " Early the following morning, the Night Stalker slipped into a ranch-style...
...member environmental protest group, was bombed and sunk on July 10 in the harbor of Auckland, New Zealand, killing a Greenpeace photographer. The ship, which was sunk by two bombs attached to its hull, was about to lead a protest against French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll, 700 miles southeast of Tahiti. The evidence, trumpeted across the country last week by a French press in full cry, strongly suggests that France's secret service, the Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure, was responsible for the sabotage...
...York is particularly unselfconscious about money and materialism, which is fine by the immigrants. Joanne Oplustil is founder of the Church Street Merchant Association's refugee program, which ministers to Southeast Asians. "Four years ago when he arrived," Oplustil recalls, "one man was thrilled to have a bicycle. Then a big TV, then a video recorder. Now," she sighs, "he loves to talk about owning a Mercedes." The city's notorious brusqueness, off-putting to many American visitors, also seems to suit the ambitious arrivals. When a group of Chinese recently bought a Flushing commercial building to renovate, the mood...