Word: southeasterners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...near San José, the capital of Costa Rica. Spokesmen for both the Costa Rican government and Pastora's rebels denied that the planes had come from Costa Rica. A.R.D.E. sources claimed that the flights had originated at a dirt airstrip that the rebels had recently captured in southeastern Nicaragua. Nicaraguan leaders placed the blame for the attack not on A.R.D.E. or Costa Rica but on the U.S., calling the raid "a cowardly and criminal act." Said D'Escoto: "The only true responsibility is President Reagan's and his Administration's, which has conceived, directed...
...asks his students to name the subjects and discuss their roles in events. East Hampton, N.Y., Social Studies Teacher Jim Barry has devised a current-events contest in which teams compete for points by answering questions from a given week's issue. Evelyn Robinson, a professor at Southeastern Louisiana University's education department, finds that TIME not only develops vocabulary and critical reading skills, but fills gaps in her students' education by exposing them to subject matter they would encounter nowhere else. Professor Arthur Beringause of Bronx Community College has had similar results: "My freshman and remedial...
...center of the maelstrom is Whoops, a once obscure but now infamous joint venture of 23 publicly owned utilities. With headquarters in the small city of Richland in southeastern Washington, the agency was set up in 1957 to build dams and power plants. By the early '70s Whoops officials, who put their faith in energy experts, thought that the Northwest was facing serious potential power shortages. Demand for electricity had been burgeoning 7% annually and was expected to continue growing at that pace. Hoping to provide an abundant source of cheap energy, the power system began building its first...
...question for high city officials, he does not have to take "No comment" for an answer: the reporter is Tom Baker, 53, who happens to be the mayor. Baker is also the publisher of the Times, which is the sole newspaper in Waitsburg (pop. 1,035), located in southeastern Washington. Townsfolk are neither impressed nor worried by the unusual situation. Says Banker Ken Miller: "It's easy for Tom. His newspaper is only two doors down from town hall." Explains Wheat Farmer Howard Smith: "It was his turn to be mayor...
Police found a military ID card identifying the dead man as Lieut. Colonel Bernard Nut, 47, the chief of the Direction Generate de la Securite Exterieure, the French equivalent of the CIA, for all of southeastern France. But investigators came across precious few other clues to help crack the Nut case. The intelligence officer's .357 Magnum revolver was found 15 ft. from his body, ruling out the possibility of suicide. And even though three shots had been fired from the gun, no bullet was found in Nut's body. An autopsy revealed that he had eaten...