Word: southeasterners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iran's setback in the gulf was serious enough, but the loss of the Fao was devastating. The peninsula, gateway to the Shatt al-Arab waterway and the southeastern port city of Basra, had been captured by Iranian forces in 1986. In a surprise offensive code-named Blessed Ramadan, after the Islamic holy month that began last week, President Saddam Hussein ordered the Iraqi Seventh Army, supported by elite Presidential Guards, to attack the peninsula's Iranian defenders. Early last week, following a successful 36-hour armored blitzkrieg, the Iraqi victory was complete...
...first, it sounded eerily like those stories about the Bermuda Triangle, that mysterious patch of water and air off the southeastern U.S. where planes and ships inexplicably disappear, never to be seen again. South African Airways Flight 295, bound for Johannesburg from Taipei, was ten minutes away from its scheduled landing on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius for refueling when the pilot radioed the control tower saying there was smoke in the cabin. The Boeing 747 was immediately cleared for an emergency instrument landing. Said Servan Sing, an air-traffic controller on Mauritius: "After that, we had no contact...
...walk through the halls of capitols and do horse trading." In a parallel development, Fundamentalists have been steadily consolidating control of the nation's largest Protestant denomination, the 14.6 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. One indicator of their impact was last month's resignation of the moderate president at Southeastern Baptist seminary in North Carolina following a Fundamentalist takeover of his board...
...past month, Chung had refused to meet with his employees' newly formed unions and promptly shut down seven of his conglomerate's 24 companies. Among the shuttered enterprises: Hyundai Shipbuilding & Heavy Industries, with 24,000 workers, and Hyundai Motor, with 23,000. More than 60,000 employees in the southeastern city of Ulsan were locked out. Trying to rally near one factory, 20,000 workers clashed with riot police. A day later, 40,000 strikers and supporters staged a twelve-hour demonstration in and around Ulsan. Wearing white safety helmets and their blue company uniforms, the demonstrators flooded into...
...turning point may have come in January, when hundreds of krakers (militant squatters) occupied a seven-story building and a bank in the southeastern city of Nijmegen. The squatters battled police for the better part of a day, injuring 19 officers and causing $2 million in damage. The country was shocked by the realization that for several hours it was the krakers, not the authorities, who controlled the downtown of a major city. In the ensuing wave of indignation, politicians clamored for new laws against squatting...