Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police discovered a bungalow hideout in a Montreal suburb yesterday where they believe the FLQ held Laporte before killing him. But the discovery of the alleged hideout yielded no new information concerning the three FLQ members now being sought in connection with the kidnappings or any others in the radical terrorist group...
...sides of trains rolling into the city's Central Station. Like members of some giant caravan at rest, they camped all over Cairo. They watched the comings and goings at the Kubbeh Republican Palace, where dignitaries made solemn calls. They wept at the new Nasr Mosque in the suburb of Manshiet al Bakri, where laborers silently dug a five-foot crypt...
...largest of the troubled Missouri districts is Hazelwood, a working-class suburb of spreading subdivisions and apartment projects. In 15 years, Hazelwood's school enrollment has grown from 1,000 to nearly 25,000. At the same time, tax revenue from industrial and commercial property has fallen from one-fourth of the school budget to 7%. When Hazelwood voters began protesting higher property taxes in earnest last year, it took four elections to pass a school-tax levy. After four more elections in 1970, the voters have still not approved a levy...
Guerrilla War. Money has usually been plentiful in Scarsdale, a well-manicured New York City suburb. Once known as the nation's wealthiest town, Scarsdale has also claimed the best public-school system in America. It had never voted down a school budget until this year. The stock market plunge may have been a factor, but there were several others. Last year Scarsdale's commuters were jolted by a New York Times story titled "Guerrilla War Tactics Taught at Scarsdale High." The story solemnly described one high school teacher's course about guerrilla warfare, which included demonstration...
...counted American flag decals. And that's no small task in a New York suburb. A car is only half a car unless it has a flag on one of the windows, and for the car to have real prestige, two or three decals are necessary. With Readers' Digest headquarters five miles away, this is easily accomplished...