Word: southeastern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tehran: Soviet officers and Cuban troops were helping to patrol Iran's frontier with Pakistan to halt the flight of dissident Iranians. At the same time, well-informed members of Iran's Islamic Guards confided that the Soviet Union had established an intelligence-gathering network in the southeastern region of Iran that focused on neighboring Pakistan. Tehran's growing rapprochement with Moscow gave credence to the reports. The Soviets have been supplying Iran with arms for its war with Iraq, while KGB experts have been helping Iran's Islamic revolutionary government create an efficient intelligence...
...continents began their slow drift apart, Antarctica was attached to South America, Africa, India and Australia as part of a great landmass that scientists call Pangaea (Greek for whole earth). In strata similar to those of its long-separated continental cousins, Antarctica, like the tip of South America and southeastern Australia, may possess uranium...
...battleground for survival, old XVI, with its estimated 70,000 out-of-town visitors, its press personnel and its attendant show-business acts, arrives like a relief column of well-off cavalry. Some experts claim that the event may pump as much as $62 million into the economy of southeastern Michigan...
...Southeastern Massachusetts University (SMU), originally scheduled to face the Crimson on Saturday, walked away from the strip after a dispute about the number of directors (referees to the uninitiated). Though challenging only the scheduled men's sabre match, SMU withdrew its entire squad--men and women--from the meet...
...Catastrophe no longer dogs Rabbit's heels. He is afflicted instead with dented fenders, with enough money to know that it will not buy him what he wants, whatever that may be. He is in the process of forgetting his dream, just as his city of Brewer in southeastern Pennsylvania has paved over its past with highways that, thanks to oil prices, may lead nowhere. He peddles Japanese cars to Americans; something has gone wrong in his native land. He thinks: "The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing...