Word: southwards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the 150 war planes from the two carriers joined up to 400 air force aircraft flying from bases in Thailand and South Vietnam in what the U. S. command called a campaign to stem the flow of North Vietnamese war material southward...
...spokesmen said other supersonic jest from the Hancock equipped with spy gear including highly sophisticated cameras streaked into North Vietnam to photograph supply buildups awaiting shipment southward...
...mood turned to alarm on Sunday morning, Sept. 20, when Syrian tanks rolled southward to relieve pressure on the commandos. Israeli troops began massing along the Jordanian border to the west. Nixon asked Secretary of State William Rogers to warn the Russians again. He did so, in the sternest note that the Nixon Administration has yet sent to Moscow. It threatened the "gravest consequences" if the Syrians did not withdraw...
...Soviet-made missiles, some of which are manned by Russian crews, are deployed in scattered batteries in a 50-mile-thick belt that arches from Alexandria on the Mediterranean southward some 180 miles to the Gulf of Suez. Missile batteries have also been set up around major Egyptian airfields. In addition to the relatively old-fashioned SA2, which was familiar to U.S. pilots over North Viet Nam and can effectively strike only planes flying above 3,500 feet, the Soviet Union has installed the new SA-3, which is designed to hit low-flying aircraft...
Such attitudes will hardly help solve what could develop into a serious public health problem. Epidemiologists see little danger that cholera will spread into Western Europe or the U.S., where sanitation is good and ample medical care available. But they are concerned that the disease may spread southward into Africa or westward into South and Central America. Their concern may well be justified. The government of Guinea last week reported that an unidentified intestinal illness has hospitalized 230 people in the country's capital of Conakry. The disease, which sounds suspiciously like cholera, has already killed 27 others...