Word: southeasterners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President used the White House proclamation of Hispanic Heritage Week to spotlight Bush's child-care plan. Joining the battle between Bush and Michael Dukakis for the Hispanic vote, Reagan met with Hispanic newsmen and assured them of Bush's "warm feelings with regard to Hispanics." Reagan barnstormed through southeastern Missouri last week, labeling Democrats "trench-coat liberals" and darkly warning that a Dukakis presidency would resemble the horror film Nightmare on Elm Street...
John David has a different perspective. His parents, who grew up in southeastern Texas, were kept out of the Anglo world as children. John David has not grown up as a outsider. "The kids haven't experienced prejudice," says Mary Louise. "We experienced it from the Anglos from the day we were real little, when we couldn't go swimming in Austin's public pools. When we talk to the children about it, they say, 'Oh, Mom. That couldn't have happened. Not here...
...than three years to recapture its enemy-held land, Iran invaded Iraqi territory in 1984. Eventually, it squeezed off the Shatt al Arab waterway in southern Iraq, the country's only entrance to the gulf. At one point in the conflict, Iran held large areas of territory, notably in southeastern Iraq, and tried to establish an Islamic Republic of Iraq that would replace Hussein's government...
...found myself stuck for a reply. It was difficult enough to conjure up the picture of Soviet generals -- hefty, beetle-browed men in bulky overcoats -- leaning over a map while the Air Marshal for Nuclear War Contingency Planning says, "Then we'll get Atlanta and take out all the Southeastern branch offices in one swoop." Even if that were the Russians' plan, how would Atlanta people know about it? A Chamber of Commerce mole in the Kremlin? Even if they knew about it, why would they boast about it? Who wants to be up toward the front in a queue...
...northwestern city of Bydgoszcz, bus and tram drivers paralyzed the public transport system for twelve hours and won a 63% pay raise. Next day workers struck at the sprawling Lenin steel mill near the southern city of Cracow, while employees at a military-equipment plant in the southeastern city of Stalowa Wola reportedly won large wage demands after putting down their tools at week...