Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worry about getting laid. But the dialogue is so sparse and cryptic that it's not clear until the final scene that Claude had been torn all along between conforming and resisting, rather than merely trying to decide how best to evade Uncle Sam. When he marches off to Southeast Asia, presumably to die for an empty cause, confusion overshadows the intended irony. Lost also are the characterizations of several of the more prominent female roles, especially those played by Andrea Trisciuzzi and Jennifer Van Dyck...
...people have been less rigid in their expectations. Japanese workers, for example, who are fiercely loyal to their firms, are willing to accept pay cuts during hard times. Says Samuel Brittan, a leading British economist: "The one part of the world in which there is real wage flexibility is Southeast Asia...
DIED. Daniel Sullivan, 76, crusading, mild-mannered FBI crime buster in the '30s, who helped nail John Dillinger and Kate ("Ma") Barker's gang, then in 1942 became a tenacious private investigator whose exhaustive files on criminal activity in the Southeast led to numerous indictments and helped bring about Senator Estes Kefauver's 1950 hearings on organized crime; of pneumonia; in North Miami...
...hills above the capital, meanwhile, Israeli and Syrian forces battled fiercely for control of the Beirut-Damascus highway. On Wednesday, the Israelis began reinforcing their positions in the hills southeast of Beirut and advanced on the town of Aley, located at a key crossroads on the highway. Supported by air attacks and artillery fire, Israeli tanks and infantry engaged the Syrians at close range in some of the most ferocious fighting of the three-week-old war. Damascus claimed to have destroyed 17 Israeli tanks and other armored vehicles, while losing two of its own MiG jets in dogfights over...
...biggest drug producers in the world. Switzerland's Ciba-Geigy, fourth in sales in the indus try, is accused in the report of dumping 30th clioquinol and aminopyrine. The West German giant Hoechst and E.R. Squibb and Sons, Inc., of Princeton, N.J., are charged with selling tetracycline in Southeast Asia without sufficient warnings that the antibiotic can discolor children's teeth. California-based Syntex Corp. is taken to task for failing to publish standard warnings on birth control pills sold in Singapore and Malaysia; Parke-Davis and Dow Chemical, for not publicizing the perils of chloramphenicol in Asian...