Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sandigan,* as the Catholic guerrilla organization is known, claims it has about 100 members operating in three widely separated regions: in Luzon north of Manila, on the island of Samar and in southern Mindanao. Since early this year, its armed bands have been infiltrating villages to establish bases and food-supply depots. Militarily, they are totally overshadowed by the Communists' New Peoples Army, which numbers 2,000 to 3,000. Nonetheless, one Democratic Socialis Party leader-a Jesuit priest who insists that he is still "in very good standing" with his order-claims that the Sandigan group operating near...
After describing Europe and Asia in his best-selling The Great Railway Bazaar, Theroux has moved his one man railway show into the western hemisphere. This time he chose the jaunt between Boston and Southern Argentina, once again via the tracks. In what would seem like a replay with just a change in geography, this book lacks the characters, scandals, tall tales and disasters that usually make this genre successful...
Playing at the fifth spot, Atlanta native Debbie Kalish left her southern hospitality at home as she hammered Eileen Zucker with her serve and volley game to take that match, 6-2, 6-2. Kris Mertz closed out the scoring, overpowering Pam Esserin, 7-6, 6-0, with her strong serve in the sixth singles...
McBride said Southern labor groups remain disorganized because employers have instilled fear in them. "They believe that a bad job is better than no job," he added...
MacDonald is one of the few crime writers since Arthur Conan Doyle to rate a regular newsletter for fans (JDM Bibliophile is published twice yearly at the Uni versity of Southern Florida); he is also one of the American authors to have won France's coveted Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere. But critics and scholars have lots of time to catch up. MacDonald's mind still brims with mayhem for McGee. And there are lots of colors to go. "Let's see," says John D., sitting down to work. "There's ocher, ultramarine, peach, beige, cherry...