Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suit, filed by 19 community organizations from Chicago's predominantly white Northwest and Southwest sides, charges that the Department of Housing and Urban Development violated the antipollution law when it approved 100 sites in those areas for public housing projects. The complaint says: "As a statistical whole, low income families ... possess social class characteristics which will and have been inimical and harmful to the legitimate interests of the plaintiffs." Among the characteristics named: "Disregard for physical and aesthetic maintenance of real and personal property, a higher propensity for criminal behavior and acts of physical violence and a lower commitment...
General Giap has thrown his strongest forces into the drive on Hué. Three divisions are closing on the city from the North and West, and a fourth is poised to the Southwest. The seasoned Communist troops, many of whom took part in the bloodying of ARVN in Laos last spring, are equipped as never before. They have tanks and heavy artillery, including Soviet 130-mm. guns with a range of 17 miles. Some of their equipment is even more sophisticated: last week a portable heat-seeking Soviet missile downed two U.S. helicopters and a light plane near Quang...
...dazzling Southwest scenery is present in abundance, but it is functional, not merely decorative. And whenever the movie moves indoors, usually to a saloon, the sets-however slickly photographed-are appropriately dark and tumbledown, as if some New Mexico ghost town had been converted into a sound stage...
...Vietnamese fighter-bombers cleared an area in preparation for a South Vietnamese advance that never came. That left the choice to the North Vietnamese. As long as Minh refused to move, they could leave a small force behind to keep the An Loc relief column pinned down and slip southwest for an attack on the provincial capital of Tay Ninh-to which elements of the ARVN 25th Division reportedly repaired last week in a "tactical retreat" from their position four miles away, even though they had not been attacked. U.S. intelligence estimated that five North Vietnamese regiments in the area...
...week's end Communist forces were only about 40 miles from the capital, although on a different front. About 75 miles southwest of An Loc, North Vietnamese surrounded the Cambodian town of Svay Rieng, astride Highway 1, which links Phnom Penh to the South Vietnamese capital. The move could be a diversion, or an effort to open a new infiltration route into South Viet Nam -or a bid to mousetrap the South Vietnamese into another...