Word: southern
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...fighter jet patrolling northern Iraq. U.S. forces were unable to locate the battery to return fire when the Iraqis apparently turned their radar off seconds after firing the missile. In another tweaking of the U.S., Iraqi aircraft also violated the new, expanded no-fly zone in southern Iraq. "The U.S. will take some action, the question is when and how strong," Thompson says. "The good thing about this attack from the U.S. standpoint is it gives the Pentagon a reason to get rid of the air-defense missile sites in the no-fly zone. The question is whether the response...
KANSAS CITY, Missouri: President Clinton told a gathering of Southern governors Tuesday that now that he signed the welfare bill they sought, it was the states' responsibility to move people from welfare to work. "You asked for this, and now you got it," Clinton said. "There is not enough money around to create enough public jobs to solve this welfare problem." The President said that means states need to use federal block grants to supplement wages paid by private employers, making it easier for companies to hire welfare recipients. "We need to break this responsibility down to think about...
...Harvard Glacier got its name in 1899 when the Harriman family--which later included W. Averell Harriman, undersecretary of state under President Lyndon B. Johnson--took a vacation in southern Alaska. They were accompanied by Harvard minerology instructor Charles Palache; John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club; an Amherst College professor; and two U.S. Geological Survey employees...
...daytime TV and vows to clean up his act. ("I'm sick of the garbage that is on.") A p.r. executive whose past clients include Michael Jackson is leading a campaign to build a "Statue of Responsibility" as counterpoint to the Statue of Liberty--and to build it in Southern California, no less...
This third U.S. amateur title was the culmination of a youthful career like no other in the history of golf. At age three, Woods was beating 10-year-olds. In the second grade he won an international match against other kids. At 11 he was undefeated in 30 Southern California youth events. At 16 he became the youngest person ever to play in a Professional Golf Association tournament (as an amateur, of course). He won three United States Golf Association junior titles, the first when he was 15. By last week there was nothing more...