Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oscar X Ray headed for Aden in pursuit, but it too was refused permission to land. Bonn advised Wischnewski to try to buy his way in: "Reach the Southern Yemen authorities. If landing permission given, clarify that negotiations will include development plans for Southern Yemen. Major development plans and funds for Yemen. Did you understand?" Southern Yemen still refused, and Wischnewski flew on to Jidda in Saudi Arabia. Before landing he received another urgent message from Schmidt: "The minister [Wischnewski] has a free hand in all the negotiations with all countries. Is that clear?" This may have been a coded...
...French embassy in The Hague in order to free a compatriot from prison points to an alarming central fact about contemporary terrorism: the growing links of these organizations. A number of West German radicals, for example, got their combat training at Palestinian-run camps in Lebanon and Southern Yemen. Libya, which seems willing to bankroll revolutionaries all over the world, has supplied many of the groups with arms...
DIED. Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, raucous rock group that called its music "Southern raunchy roll"; when their chartered airplane crashed in a swamp near McComb, Miss. Among the six people killed were Lead Singer Ronnie Van Zant, Guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister Cassie, a vocalist with the group. All three were 28. Their latest album, Street Survivors, had just been released...
...present about 3 million people are receiving the minimum wage; by 1981 that figure should increase to an estimated 5 million. Most of those in the lowest pay categories work at less skilled jobs such as retail clerks, bellhops and receptionists, in addition to manufacturing in some Southern textile and apparel plants...
...filching checks from Steve's mailbox. But alas, Dr. Forbes has escaped ... to Catalina. On a catamaran. Audiences invariably groan as this inventive tale turns into mushy vaudeville. Wide-eyed pause. "You think comedy is ... pretty?" leers Martin. He catches them catnapping every time. As a youngster in Southern California, Steve used to bike over to nearby Disneyland and virtually moved in. He sold guidebooks, practiced card tricks, prowled the park's secret passages after hours, and idolized Wally Boag, a vaudevillian who did card tricks and balloon animals at Frontierland's Golden Horseshoe Revue...