Word: southeasterners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...menacing language was backed by the first show of governmental force since the country's labor turmoil erupted last summer. In the southeastern towns of Nowy Sacz and Ustrzyki Dolne, riot police wearing helmets and gas masks ousted militant workers and farmers from government buildings. The demonstrators were demanding the legalization of an independent farmers' union and protesting the harassment of Solidarity organizers. Violence was avoided when the protesters agreed to leave the offices...
...cruel welcome for the 320 black immigrants from the West African nation of Mali. They had just settled into their newly refurbished, five-story government housing project in the southeastern Paris suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine. Then, on Christmas Eve, the quiet of the shabby, working-class district was broken by a raid of angry townspeople. Accompanied by Paul Mercieca, Vitry's Communist mayor, a group of 50 residents and town officials swarmed over the building. They snipped telephone lines, sawed off water pipes, tore hot water heaters off the walls and ripped the wiring out of fuse boxes...
With the national championship, Dooley and his Bulldogs step out of the shadow of Southeastern Conference Rival Alabama and its fabled coach, Bear Bryant. Dooley's 17-year tenure at Georgia is the fourth longest of active college coaches, and his record of 129 wins, 56 losses and six ties is eighth best in the nation. At 48, he has won four S.E.C. titles, an impressive mark in a conference where Bryant keeps shop. Yet Dooley is not haunted by his illustrious rival. "My very first game as a 31-year-old college coach...
...Highway 13 in Colorado, away from the bustle and lights of a coal town like Craig, and you quickly find yourself in a land of buttes and canyons and endless sky, with gophers and prairie dogs scampering across the two-lane road and magpies fluttering overhead. Go down into southeastern Utah and head toward Moab. Take a right at the entrance to Canyonlands National Park and proceed along the paved road until it turns into a red clay rut. You are going along at 30 miles an hour, then 20, then 15. The road dips and rises, twists and turns...
...population from 1.4 million to 2 million. That's explosive. Now all these things are supported by the Federal Government, but the Feds never sit down and tell you that all these things have to be planned together for management purposes." Adds William D. Howell, director of the Southeastern Utah Association of Local Governments: "Usually, you can't even get an audience in Washington unless you've already been impacted. If you go to them well prepared and say, 'We expect this much development to happen and so we will need this much money,' they...