Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only about $11 an hour. The low value of the yen also helps keep down the price of its exports. Although Komatsu has so far won less than 7% of the U.S. market, as against some 50% for Caterpillar, it has been gaining rapidly in the Middle East and Southeast Asia...
...should be applied un-equivocally in the case of East Timor: no nation has the right to armed aggression. And as Tsongas has pointed out: the issue of East Timor is separate from our relations with Indonesia. It is perfectly possible to maintain friendly relations with an importantally in Southeast Asia, and still pressure it to respect the international...
...sedate hotel dining room in Helsinki, she gives a writer a big, rowdy kiss, and orders not vodka but tea and a huge chunk of chocolate cake. She talks of a happy, privileged childhood in Tomaszow Lubelski, a town of some 20,000 people about 200 miles southeast of Warsaw. Her father ran a construction business until he became ill some years ago. She was a track star as a child; at eleven she had the best time in Poland in the 80-meter sprint. She began to be interested in the stage, but theater simply did not exist...
...Chinese are convinced that Viet Nam is bent on dominating Southeast Asia through a tripartite Indochinese socialist union that would include Kampuchea and Laos. Peking also fears that Hanoi's actions are part of a larger Soviet scheme to threaten China's southern flank. Aside from launching their brief attack across Viet Nam's northern border in early 1979, the Chinese have been giving weapons and supplies to the remaining Khmer Rouge guerrillas in Kampuchea. Hanoi, for its part, contends that its troops were sent into Kampuchea partly to end Pol Pot's killing spree...
...liberal government of Peru's President, Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Ever since Belaúnde's election in 1980, the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), a shadowy group of self-styled Maoist guerrillas, has tyrannized the area around the picturesque Andean town of Ayacucho, some 350 miles southeast of Lima. Under the pretext of defying capitalism and central authority, the insurgents have attacked isolated police stations and assassinated villagers suspected of informing against them. In January, Belaúnde sent a 3,500-man task force to Ayacucho to deter the rebels. But the guerrillas continue to pick...