Word: southeastern
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Throughout the increasingly bloody conflict there have been charges that the separatists have been aided by India, which has a substantial Tamil population in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu, 22 miles from Sri Lanka across the Palk Strait. But in the past ten months, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has tried to broker a peace agreement between the Sri Lanka government and the insurgents. Last year he helped arrange two ceasefires, only to see the fragile agreement crumble. Sri Lanka's President J.R. Jayewardene, for his part, has offered greater political autonomy to the Tamils but rejects the idea...
...generations. On Valentine's Day, the prequel (though not the equal) of last year's 1918, marks one more stroll through Foote's family plot. Again we find the Vaughn and Robedaux families forcing smiles and small talk as the Great War rages 5,000 miles from their southeastern Texas town. Again we see Horace Robedaux (William Converse-Roberts) pledging love to his gentle bride Lizzie (Hallie Foote) and declaring his independence from her father's wealth. Drama is tamped down by propriety until it explodes, like a defective firecracker, into the DTs, psychosis and suicide...
Until a few weeks ago, the Fao Peninsula in southeastern Iraq was a sparsely inhabited outpost of little interest to anyone. By last week it had become the locus of some of the fiercest fighting in the Iran-Iraq war, as Iraqi troops mounted a blistering counterattack against dug-in Iranian invaders. By week's end Iran still held its grip on the peninsula. And neighboring Arab sheikdoms began to wonder whether Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had lost the initiative on the battlefield to the Iranian juggernaut...
That lively reception was rudely offset the next day in the southeastern city of Madras, where the Pope planned to meet with non-Christian religious leaders. Of the 300 invited, only 48 showed up. Embarrassed local church functionaries had to round up community leaders to fill out the audience. Later in the day, however, more than 500,000 people joined the Pope on a beach for a sunset Mass...
...terrorists staged attacks last Dec. 27 at Rome and Vienna airports against the Israeli airline El Al, it was inevitable that the Israelis would respond. Last week they apparently thought they had their + chance. As a Libyan Gulfstream II executive jet carrying nine passengers and three crewmen passed the southeastern coast of Cyprus on its way to Damascus, two Israeli fighter jets intercepted the aircraft and ordered the pilot to proceed to Ramat David air force base, near Haifa...