Word: southwards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Road maps say that the border of Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina is a crow-flies straight line along the 35th parallel from Scaly Mountain, N.C., to Guild, Tenn. But for more than a century a rather quaint controversy has cooked over whether an 1811 surveyor made a southward error -thrown off by a forest fire and Indian harassment-and gave Tennessee and North Carolina some 300 sq. mi. of mountainous woods that actually belong to Georgia...
...President Nixon, who respects Helms' judgment highly, is presently pondering an Israeli request for additional military equipment. Israel is convinced that Washington is using such aid as both carrot and stick to force it into unwanted compromises. The Israelis told Helms that since the Soviets are moving inexorably southward toward East Africa and the Indian Ocean, establishing a naval presence and setting up ports of call and repair facilities, friendly nations such as Israel ought to be included in Western defense planning. On that basis, the Israelis argue, arms shipments ought to be determined according to strategic priorities...
Some of the troops of the South Vietnamese 1st Division abandoning Lolo were ordered to relocate at Landing Zone Brown, a base five miles to the east which the South Vietnamese had planned to use for raids southward against a branch of the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...other Communist troops on the Ho Chi Minh Trail through southern Laos, would involve high stakes. Among the possibilities would be a serious defeat for the South Vietnamese army or, conversely, an ARVN victory that could close the Ho Chi Minh Trail's vital flow of Communist supplies southward. The entire situation in Indochina could change drastically...
While the 207,000-ton supertanker Marpessa was steaming southward past the coast of Senegal to pick up a load of crude oil from the Persian Gulf, her crewmen were routinely spray cleaning her empty oil tanks with jets of sea water. For no apparent reason, an explosion ripped through the hull, sending the brand-new ship to the bottom. Two weeks later, an oil hold of the supertanker Mactra blew up in the Mozambique Channel; next day a blast blew apart the Kong Haakon VII off Liberia. Last summer there were two more tanker explosions. Scientists and oilmen were...