Word: southeasterners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chernenko, who replaced Andropov after that leader's death last February, seems uninterested in the notion. "We detected a hardening once Chernenko came to power," says Abdullah Osman, head of the Mujahedin-run Union of Afghan Doctors. Sure enough, Soviet troops recently stepped up patrols along both the southeastern border with Pakistan and the western border with Iran. "If the enemies of the motherland do not surrender," warned TASS, "the state will crush them, no matter where they are and on what reactionary and imperialist forces they rely...
...maintains that people who buy the diplomas are often partners in fraud. Over a decade, one diploma mill, Southeastern University in Greenville, S.C., graduated 620 students, including 171 county, state and federal employees...
...Southeastern Quarterfinals...
...slight, dark-haired woman, wearing a brick-red dress, spoke in the broad, flat tones of southeastern Massachusetts, recounting with almost clinical detachment her recollections of being gang-raped on a tavern pool table in New Bedford a year earlier. Her testimony last week came on the second day in the trial of her six accused attackers, all charged with aggravated rape, a crime that carries a possible life sentence. It was the first time the 22-year-old woman, whose identity has been protected at the urging of Superior Court Judge William G. Young, had spoken in public about...
Seven years and $26 million in the making, Viewtron made its debut in southeastern Florida last week as the first two-way home information system available in the U.S. The Knight-Ridder newspaper chain, operator of Viewtron, plans to introduce the system within about two years in 17 cities, including Boston, Detroit and Seattle. One of Viewtron's starring attractions, banking at home, presages a revolution in consumer finance. A sci-fi concept only five years ago, home banking is now being introduced by institutions ranging from New York City's Chemical Bank (deposits: $29.8 billion) to Washington...