Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SERVICE ended, and we gathered at St. Augustine's. St. Augustine's is a small modern building in Southwest Washington that doubles as an Episcopal church and a Jewish synagogue. This week it would serve as our antiwar headquarters, We would sleep on the altar. It was carpeted. Some of us would send out press releases and coordinate activities with those in jail. Ninety-two of us-eight women and 84 men-planned to be arrested the next morning...
During rebel attacks on Chittagong, Pakistani naval vessels shelled the port, setting fire to harbor installations. At Jessore, in the southwest, angry Bengalis were said to have hacked alleged government spies to death with staves and spears. Journalists at the Petrapole checkpoint on the Indian border found five bodies and a human head near the frontier post-the remains, apparently, of a group of West Pakistanis who had tried to escape. At week's end there were reports that East Bengali rebels were maintaining a precarious hold on Jessore and perhaps Chittagong. But in Dacca and most other cities...
...never lacked for master plans. The boldest was designed in 1960 by Architect Kenzo Tange, whose ambitious blueprint to extend the city out over Tokyo Bay attracted attention round the world, but was virtually ignored at home. Though never geisha-gracious like Kyoto, its sister city to the southwest, Tokyo has always made up for its lack of physical charm with a sense of rawboned excitement. Its pleasure districts are the gaudiest anywhere. The hub of the nation's cultural life, Tokyo boasts five symphony orchestras, attracts most of the country's artists and hosts more than half...
...University of Mississippi - has been the legal counsel to Tijerina's Alianza Federal De Pueblos Libres since 1968. Tijerina - perhaps one of the most controversial Chicano leaders - has claimed that 100,000,000 acres of New Mexico's common lands belong to Indo-Hispano people of the Southwest...
...final bid could go to the runner-up in either the Ivy League (Harvard), the Southwest Conference, or the Ohio Valley Conference...