Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Djibouti's new rulers. Says Ahmed Dini, 45, president of the newly elected National Assembly: "The Somalis and Ethiopians are at swords' points now, but what is to prevent them some day from getting together and carving us up?" Last month Somalia-supported guerrillas operating inside southern Ethiopia blew up the Addis-Djibouti rail line in three places, closing it indefinitely. That was a serious blow to the economy of Djibouti, which depends on Ethiopia not only for customs and transit revenues but also for its fruit and vegetables. On the eve of independence, local markets were virtually...
...SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Disneyland after 22 years remains a marvel of technological ingenuity, Waltgeist and two-hour waits. By contrast, only six miles away, is Knott's Berry Farm, which began as just that, is still run by the family and is eminently human. Rides and shows are built on Old West themes. In San Diego, 55 miles from Disneyland, is Sea World, the best-planned, best-stocked oceanarium...
Still, as they say in Southern California, one must go with the flow. In Slow Days, Fast Company that flow is generated by Babitz's fresh, distinctive sense of place: "Outside it's turned pink and the jacaranda tree is magenta, and next door the fourteen-year-old Mexican girl has finished her paper route and swung her long California-bred legs off her bike and now throws a Frisbee at her brother's head, expertly...
...both that campaign and the one against the consumer protection agency, business lobbyists also roused the folks back home to put heat on Congress. They formed Southern businessmen's groups to exhort Dixie House members, and some corporations sent letters to stockholders urging them to write to Congressmen in opposition to the consumer agency. Says Andrew Biemiller, chief AFL-CIO lobbyist: "One thing they can do is flood that goddamned Hill with letters." Motley adds that the N.F.I.B. can turn out "local auto dealers, local accountants and dry cleaners, hardware dealers, dairymen-Kiwanians, Lions, church people. When we tell...
...Roger Bishop was already making his second stop of the day at the hospital in Marion, Ill., a small (pop. 13,000) coal-mining town in the southern part of the state. He had delivered a baby there in the predawn hours. Now, after a short nap, the 30-year-old physician was back for his regular morning rounds. At the bedside of an 88-year-old man who had wrenched his back in a fall, he offered the cheering words that he could go home the next day. Checking the condition of a 59-year-old housewife, he satisfied...