Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the Egyptian prisoners were embarking at Lod, an almost identical scene took place 250 miles southwest at Cairo international airport. There, three buses decorated with the Red Crescent -the equivalent of the Red Cross in Islamic countries-drew alongside a waiting red and white DC-6 also owned by Balair. The buses unloaded 26 Israeli prisoners of war, who went aboard the plane. They were the first of 245 Israelis being repatriated. Meanwhile about 8,200 Egyptian prisoners will go home aboard the Balair planes and a chartered Swissair...
There could also be some startling shifts in income in different regions of the U.S. The rush to find new oil deposits in the Southwest and West could fuel booms in those regions. But the East Coast stands to suffer. More dependent on Arab oil than the rest of the country, the highly industrialized region from Boston to Washington might have to chug along on only about 75% of its usual petroleum supply. The full impact of the shutoff is expected in about three weeks, when the last of the shipments from the Persian Gulf are unloaded at American ports...
Burr dealt with the indictment by leaving town. There followed his premature adventures in empire building and manifest destiny in the Southwest. These eventually led to a charge of treason brought by President Jefferson, a trial that saw Jefferson invoke Executive privilege to withhold documents. The far-reaching effect of Burr's eventual acquittal was to help define what constitutes a treasonable...
Lozana appealed to the local union members in the crowd: "Don't you let any of these New England manufacturers leave here so that they can come to the Southwest and expect to exploit us in runaway shops...
...Syrian front, the Israelis remained blocked for the fourth day about 21 miles southwest of Damascus. Syria said it has resumed a counterattack against the Israeli forces which have fought their way 20 miles inside Syria. Syria claimed four Israeli jets shot down in air battles...