Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prayer to land on narrow runways in the Amazonian and Indonesian jungles. They are seeking to spread the good news of Christ in a vast variety of situations: amid revolution and civil war in Central America; in parched, famine-haunted lands in Africa; in the forests of Southeast Asia, where the demons worshiped by animistic tribes are almost a palpable presence...
Later that commitment took a chilling turn toward fanaticism. In May 1982 he tried to buy 1,000 Ibs. of dynamite in Hazard, Ky., a small coal-mining town 150 miles southeast of Louisville. Since this past July, he had been living in a spartan $26-a-night room at the Downtown Motel in Washington. While in Washington, he obtained a prescription for Thorazine, a powerful tranquilizer used for the treatment of psychotic disorders. Day after day during the past few months, displaying a wooden sign warning against the perils of nuclear Armageddon, he picketed the White House. According...
...poor and the powerless. At the same time, as sociologist Jefferey Reinman has pointed out, government leaders such as Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon have never even gone to trial for their involvement in military actions abroad which led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans in southeast Asia...
During a five-day visit to Southeast Asia last month, U.S. Attorney General William French Smith discussed the problem with Thai officials. Smith said that Washington was not going to increase this year's quota of 64,000 refugees from Indochina, though he did promise that the U.S. would do its best to accept as many refugees as possible, up to the maximum quota...
...Harvard men's swimming team entered the U.S. Military Academy's Olympic Natatonum Saturday with the same strategy the U.S. Army hoped would work in the rice saddles of Southeast Asia winning with superior tire power. The Crimson though had the muscle to finish what it started edging the Cadets...