Word: southeasterners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stubbing subtexts are hidden here. Munro's gender agenda is neatly buried in her quietly daring art. An Albanian Virgin, for example, spans half a century and half the globe to join vastly different lives. A Canadian tourist who changes her itinerary in the mountains of southeastern Europe is captured by tribal Ghegs and put to work. Village routines induce a hypnotic adjustment that virtually erases her former self. The ways of these isolated Christians are bloody and strict. A woman can dodge her tribal fate as breeder and toiler only by renouncing sex, living alone and dressing...
...possibility of a war sketched dramatically different scenarios. In the worst case -- a computerized war game done in 1991 by one Pentagon analyst and never officially accepted -- an unstoppable North Korean force sweeps across the 150-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone, pushes south through disorganized defenders and reaches the southeastern port of Pusan within four weeks, just in time to block the arrival of U.S. reinforcements. The Korean peninsula reunifies -- with the seat of power in the northern capital of Pyongyang...
...Great North-South-East-West Conference: Also known as the "Compass Eight," fine institutions like Eastern Ohio, Northwest Indiana and Southeastern Michigan State compete every year for the bragging rights to one of the nation's oldest trophies, the GNSEW's prestigious Little Brown Beer Bottle...
...Sunday, Oct. 3, six MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and eight MH-6 and AH-6 "Little Birds" headed for a building in southeastern Mogadishu where Aidid's henchmen were reported to be meeting. Within minutes, nearly 50 commandos from Delta Force, the premier U.S. counterterrorism unit, and several hundred Army Rangers had captured 24 of Aidid's closest colleagues. While helicopters from Task Force 160, the Army's special-operations air wing, fluttered overhead, the Rangers herded the prisoners into a nearby courtyard and awaited a ground convoy to take them away. Then came the radio report that would...
...worst wildfires in a half-century raged across southeastern Australia, killing three people and burning 740,000 acres of brush and forest. Police suspect that many of the more than 100 fires were deliberately...