Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keeping the border war going. With troops positioned along the frontier, Viet Nam has been unwilling to carry out a full-scale offensive against Chinese-backed guerrillas next door, in Kampuchea. China is not the only neighbor upset with Viet Nam. At a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Indonesia last week, attended by U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, the region's foreign ministers joined in condemning Viet Nam's "illegal occupation" of Kampuchea...
...speech to an audience composed mostly of representatives of groups from Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and Cuba. Reagan called again on the Kremlin to allow outside observes to determine the condition of Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov and his wife. Yelena Bonner He said they "are suffering severe persecution and are cut off from the rest of humanity...
Johns Hopkins officials said the Reischauer center would be established under a $5 million endowment and would have the specific goal of training diplomats and policy makers by teaching them history, language economics, and politics of Japan and several other Southeast Asian nations...
...laps; on chilly nights adults drape sweaters over their shoulders. In the Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex, in Trenton, N. J., hundreds of passers-by have sat in the empty seat across the chess table from the bronze figure of a perplexed loser to have their picture taken. In southeast Washington, neighborhood youths have adopted the hot-rodding Skateboarder as one of their own. Says John Harrod, executive director of the Market 5 Gallery, a performing arts center that stands near by: "The kids box with it, talk to it and put cigarettes in its mouth...
...month-old war between Iran and Iraq. Saddam Hussein's fighting words also marked a resumption, after a respite of five days, of the devastating tanker war in the Persian Gulf. Twenty-four hours after he spoke, Iraq announced that it had hit two "naval targets" to the southeast of Kharg Island. Iran responded almost immediately by striking and heavily damaging a Liberian-registered tanker, the Chemical Venture, off Saudi Arabia. Next day Iraq claimed to have struck and destroyed a convoy of eight coastal freighters off Iran at the northern end of the gulf...