Word: southeasterners
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France's worst storm ever recorded continued a string of worldwide storm disasters this month. Flash floods drowned crops and damaged buildings and roads, leaving at least 38 people dead. An additional 80 were injured or missing, and thousands were evacuated from the popular Southeastern region of Vaucluse, where most of the death and destruction occurred. "It's an indescribable tragedy," said Mayor Claude Haut of Vaison-la-Romaine, an ancient Roman town of 5,000 people 25 miles north of the city of Avignon, where 23 died...
...suspect that their representatives in a national legislature will be constantly outvoted on such matters as where and how tax money should be spent. The presence of 22 Kurds out of a total of 450 members in the Turkish parliament has not prevented Kurdish terrorists seeking autonomy from turning southeastern Turkey into a land of fear...
...European capitals for pushing early for German unification, he is criticized by some Europeans for insisting that NATO remain the main vehicle for the exercise of American influence on the Continent. There is also concern that the U.S. is too inattentive to the volatile situations in central and southeastern Europe and unresponsive to the huge problems of the former Soviet Union. It was mid-December by the time Baker got around to calling for an international conference to help the new republics through the winter. Last month he dashed through half a dozen former Soviet republics without making any concrete...
...White House chief of staff Samuel Skinner and pollster Robert Teeter are recent surveys showing that suburban women are willing to bolt the G.O.P. in droves if abortion rights are lost. And that's precisely what could happen when the court rules on Casey v. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania this term...
...dreams of a wet Christmas, but that's what it was for thousands of Texans last week. Record-breaking December rains sent more than half a dozen rivers overflowing their banks, flooding homes, inundating farmland and drowning cattle in the central and southeastern parts of the state. The fast- rising waters left at least 15 people dead and caused damage estimated in the millions...