Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supermarkets. Grand Union has had Graphic Designer Milton Glaser give special attention to its new seafood departments, with lots of white tile and ice for whole and cut fish. The results are good, according to Steve Osder, director of seafood merchandising for the 75 markets in the East and Southeast. "We have had a 25% increase in the amount of fresh seafood in the past two years," he says. Frozen fish sales are flat but not declining because stores are selling more prepared seafood entrees. It is those entrees, rather than frozen raw fillets, that are keeping the balance steady...
...more than a dozen southern Lebanese as alleged collaborators with the Israelis. The Israeli pullback could spark a bloodier and more widespread settling of Lebanese scores. Precisely such an explosion took place between Lebanon's Christian and Druze militias following Israel's September 1983 withdrawal from the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut. Hundreds of Lebanese were killed and more than 100,000 were left homeless...
Diplomatically, however, the guerrilla alliance has been holding a strong hand: the Heng Samrin regime has never been recognized as legitimate by the United Nations. The Khmer Front and the Sihanouk forces have the backing of the U.S. and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines). A sustained Vietnamese attack on the front thus weakens a non-Communist alternative to the Heng Samrin government. By themselves, the stronger and more aggressive Khmer Rouge are far less likely to draw international sympathy to the resistance cause, since they are still remembered by the rest...
...smaller guerrilla group loyal to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the former head of state. But Viet Nam's primary target appears to be the non-Communist Khmer People's National Liberation Front. This group, led by onetime Prime Minister Son Sann, is supported by the U.S. and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. It has formed a loose coalition with the Khmer Rouge and the Sihanouk forces, aimed at overthrowing the Heng Samrin regime and driving out the Vietnamese. Though the resistance organizations, fielding an estimated 50,000 lightly equipped fighters, have no chance of doing that for the present, they...
Born on Oct. 30,1908, in Samara (now Kuibyshev), a city 550 miles southeast of Moscow on the Volga River, Ustinov was the child of working-class parents. He began his career working as a fitter in a paper mill and as a diesel mechanic and went on to study design engineering in Leningrad...