Word: southeasterners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Argentines are hopping mad. Turns out their government has been negotiating the use of the Patagonian desert in southeastern Argentina as a dumping ground for the world's human and industrial wastes. First France signed up; then came news that a New Jersey company, ironically named the Environmental Development Corp., was hoping to send 200,000 tons of treated sewage a year. Argentines figure they have enough of their...
...more than a century, the Custer Battlefield National Monument in southeastern Montana has served as a memorial to the "Last Stand," in which Lieut. Colonel George Armstrong Custer and more than 250 men of the 7th U.S. Cavalry met their death in a fierce battle with Sioux and Cheyenne warriors on June 25, 1876. Last week Congress approved a bill to rename the park the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. The bill would also create an Indian memorial there, in recognition that Native Americans too fought and died in the clash, which was their last major victory against...
Lindsey, the former head teaching fellow for Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics," represents the First Federal District, which covers New England, and part of the southeastern...
More divisive, and perhaps most serious of all, is the war with Kurdish separatists that is spreading in the southeastern part of the country, where nearly half of Turkey's 12 million Kurds live. Ozal tried to start a dialogue with the Kurds. Demirel is expected to take a tougher stand. Fighting has already crossed the border into Iraq. Over the weekend, Turkish planes bombed Iraqi areas from which Kurdish guerrillas staged a raid into Turkey that killed 17 soldiers. The Kurdish issue could conceivably prevent Demirel from forming a new government with the Social Democratic Populist Party, which came...
Couched at the top of one of countless waterfalls that bathe the southeastern foothills of the Peruvian Andes, I enjoy the cool breath of the cascade, which takes the edge off the equatorial sun. From nearby promontories, an observer can look upward to the cloud forests that cling to the mountainous rim of the Amazon basin, or down into the steamy lowland rain forests that extend thousands of miles to the east. As far as the eye can see and beyond, there are no villages, roads or towns. Lying below is the Manu, a 7,000-sq.-mi. area...