Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Defector Fan turned out to be an ideal spokesman for Taipei's view. "I couldn't take it any more," he said after touching down at Tainan airbase in southern Taiwan. "There is simply no freedom on the mainland." Fan, who had been thinking of defecting for many years, prepared for his escape by listening to broadcasts from Taiwan giving directions on routes and proper signals for defectors to use. His opportunity came when his unit was transferred last month to a base in Fukien province, just across the Taiwan Strait...
...after another, the bodies of ten men were found lying near southern California highways. All were males, all were nude, all had been shot in the head -probably with the same gun. Some had been dismembered and stuffed into heavy-duty trash bags. Most of the victims of what police dubbed The Trash Bag Murders also had something else in common: they were known members of the homosexual community in and around Los Angeles...
...Baggage checkout: good. Hotels/Motels: plentiful. Nineteen near airport. Amenities: unambitious. Adequate lounges, but main terminal has only two benches. Coffee shop, cafeteria, snack bars open 24 hr. One restaurant, Dobbs House. Six bars open 24 hr., except Sunday a.m. Shopping facilities: minimal. Well-stocked toy shop. Country store with Southern specialties. One barbershop. Emergencies handled by medical technicians with ambulance. They can respond in 2 min. anywhere in airport. Overall: Southern discomfort...
...Abdel Aziz Qoreishi, another Southern Cal graduate, is governor of the Saudi Monetary Agency, a position equivalent to chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board...
Died. Irving H. Saypol, 71, justice of the New York State Supreme Court who was federal prosecutor in the 1951 espionage-conspiracy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; of cancer; in Manhattan. As U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Saypol also supervised cases against Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and top U.S. Communist leaders...