Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end, as Habib prepared to resume his shuttle, Arab League foreign ministers from Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait were gathering at Beiteddin, southeast of Beirut. Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis was expected to submit a series of proposals aimed at restoring stability to his shattered land. The way out was yet to be found, but the fact that diplomacy had for five straight weeks averted a military conflict raised hopes that a lasting solution was at least conceivable...
More than half of Winthrop House knows by now that she lives in the heart of Cardinal Country--Belleville, Ill.--a city of almost 50,000 ten miles southeast of Busch Stadium. "I tell everybody it's the home of Jimmy Connors, Buddy Ebsen, and Tuborg Gold," Photo says. "In eighth grade, one of my goals was to be senator from Illinois, president of the United States, and then the ultimate goal--owner of the Cardinals...
...Viet Nam War is long over, and for most Americans, best forgotten. But there remains a nagging concern-and for many families a daily grief-that, when the U.S. got out of Southeast Asia, it may have left dozens, even hundreds of P.O.W.s behind. Past Administrations have tacitly assumed that there may be some survivors among the 2,528 men missing, including 560 lost in Laos. The anguished families believe that as many as 300 of them are still alive. Neither Viet Nam nor Laos admits holding any prisoners, and no one has ever found solid proof...
...Hmong tribesmen were apparently the first secret reconnaissance force to enter Laos on behalf of the soldiers missing in action but not the first ones to try. Angered by the refusal of the Carter Administration to accept and act on the uncertain proof that Americans are being held in Southeast Asia, families of the missing raised a dozen-man commando squad of their own-an underfinanced and overaged group of veterans from the Green Berets. Their improbable training center for an operation code-named "Velvet Hammer" was an academy for cheerleaders in Leesburg, Fla., near Orlando. Their leader was retired...
...sailing orders are sealed. Only the skipper. Commander Michael Murtagh, 40, and his executive officer, Lieut. Commander Andy Anderson, 33, know where Dauntless is headed. On this patrol, Murtagh's destination is the 135-mile-wide Yucatan Channel off Mexico's southeast coast. That is where, the captain has been told, he has the best opportunity to intercept a large shipment of U.S.-bound marijuana. Once past the channel, a smuggler has an excellent chance of reaching Florida or Louisiana, whose labyrinthine coastal waterways provide concealment for off-loading the precious cargo into smaller, speedier boats known...