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...conference began the early 1970s for students to spend Thanks giving together if they couldn't travel home to the Southwest or California, said Xavier A. Gutierrez '95, vice president of Raza...
...semiheroic, crustier than cowboys, and when a site is inconvenient, they say, "You mine where the ore is." Henderson's ore is entirely surrounded by environmentalists. The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness is not more than a mile away on all sides. Just + a bit farther, 2.5 miles to the southwest, is the great national park...
...southwest corner of the Yard was sealed off while bomb squad officers performed an on-the-scene x-ray of the package. After determining that the unmarked package was harmless, officials re-opened the Yard to normal traffic. Rooney called the police action "a simple procedure" performed "to err on the side of safety...
...Bryansk, for example, a city of 500,000 about 210 miles southwest of Moscow, many defense plants have closed or cut back. Unemployment and inflation are rising to the point where the monthly minimum wage will buy only 10 lbs. of meat. Old communists like Pyotr Shirshov, a former army general who now heads the city soviet, predictably accuse Yeltsin of practicing "a pure form of dictatorship." More ominous for the President, disaffection has spread to young people, who might be expected to back reform. "I'm not really interested in politics," says Sergei Mishin, 20, an industrial technician...
...harm their own recession-plagued economies, are not likely to embargo Nigerian crude. More fundamentally, democracy leaders have been unable to overcome the ethnic rivalries that have stood in the way of a true sense of Nigerian nationhood since its creation. Support is strong in the Yoruba-dominated southwest and almost nil in other parts of the country...