Word: southeasterners
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Some 250,000 people fled southeastern plains of the Netherlands today after continued flooding submerged towns and villages, while cars and trucks jammed the water-logged highways. Even worse, crisis management experts are warning that the country's 300-mile network of dikes, which dates to the Middle Ages, is "soaked to the limit" and could burst. The Finance Ministry put the price tag for a "worst-case scenario" at $46 billion...
...base of a cliff in the Ardeche region in southeastern France last December, the three middle-aged spelunkers felt a breeze wafting from a pile of rock and debris. "That was a sign that there was a cave beneath it," recalls Jean-Marie Chauvet. With his companions, Chauvet cleared away an opening, then wriggled through a tunnel into a complex of large caves...
...halted exports of F-16s to Pakistan, but not before Islamabad may have secretly modified some to deliver its handful of nuclear weapons. A Senate committee recently noted it had received reports "that U.S. military equipment, including helicopters, has been used in attacks against civilians in southeastern Turkey." Turkey, a NATO ally, denies it has attacked its Kurdish minority with U.S. weapons."Most of the weapons we purchase from the U.S. are not suitable for those operations," says Namik Tan of Turkey's Washington embassy. "We use weapons from other countries, like Russia...
Large swaths of southeastern Texas were deluged by torrential rain and widespread flooding. Pipelines burst under the roiling San Jacinto River, sending burning gasoline snaking downstream. At least 18 people lost their lives throughout the drenched region, and some 13,000 were chased from their homes...
...ensuring the Iraqis don't return, Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright tossed out the idea of a "no-drive" zone in southeastern Iraq. Planes would patrol the region and discourage any traffic in a strip close-in to Kuwait. The notion got a cool response from France and Britain, who had supported a crucial "no-fly zone" after the Gulf War two years ago. Air Force Maj. Gen. Everett Pratt, Jr., commander of all U.S. air forces in the Gulf region, told TIME's Thompson the U.S. could use F-15E and F16 fighter jets to enforce...