Word: southeasterners
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...Pakistan. To confuse and elude the men who were trailing me, I made numerous appointments with important government officials on my home telephone, which I knew was tapped, and laid a false trail. Then I sneaked out of my home early one morning and flew to Zahedan, in southeastern Iran. With me I took a friend, Mirza Hashem Hosseini, and his wife, whose house had been raided and looted by a gang claiming to be Islamic Guards. Also with us was another friend, Farhad Yaqubian, who had been arrested and beaten. His crime: he had dropped by to play Ping...
...menacing language was backed by the first show of governmental force since the country's labor turmoil erupted last summer. In the southeastern towns of Nowy Sacz and Ustrzyki Dolne, riot police wearing helmets and gas masks ousted militant workers and farmers from government buildings. The demonstrators were demanding the legalization of an independent farmers' union and protesting the harassment of Solidarity organizers. Violence was avoided when the protesters agreed to leave the offices...
...police action. About 100 small factories around Przemysl were shut down for an hour early last week. Workers also laid down their tools for two hours at 30 plants in and around Rzeszow, a city of 100,000 near the Soviet border. Rzeszow labor leaders warned that the whole southeastern part of the country would go out on strike if police tried to clear out the 350 demonstrators who have occupied the offices of the old party-controlled Trade Unions Council for the past three weeks. Those demonstrators, too, were demanding legal status for the new farmers' union...
...cruel welcome for the 320 black immigrants from the West African nation of Mali. They had just settled into their newly refurbished, five-story government housing project in the southeastern Paris suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine. Then, on Christmas Eve, the quiet of the shabby, working-class district was broken by a raid of angry townspeople. Accompanied by Paul Mercieca, Vitry's Communist mayor, a group of 50 residents and town officials swarmed over the building. They snipped telephone lines, sawed off water pipes, tore hot water heaters off the walls and ripped the wiring out of fuse boxes...
With the national championship, Dooley and his Bulldogs step out of the shadow of Southeastern Conference Rival Alabama and its fabled coach, Bear Bryant. Dooley's 17-year tenure at Georgia is the fourth longest of active college coaches, and his record of 129 wins, 56 losses and six ties is eighth best in the nation. At 48, he has won four S.E.C. titles, an impressive mark in a conference where Bryant keeps shop. Yet Dooley is not haunted by his illustrious rival. "My very first game as a 31-year-old college coach...