Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people crowded the banks of the Charles River in Boston, where the high was 102°, that it seemed like any summer Sunday afternoon; actually it was midnight last Wednesday, and the beantowners were just looking for some late-night relief. But not in the city's "Combat Zone," where one prostitute lamented her lack of trade: "They don't want to do it now-it's too hot. They all want air conditioning. You think I got air conditioning?" In Detroit, workers at the big automobile companies asked the same question. As temperatures in the foundries...
Scenes like these were endlessly repeated in New York City's black and Hispanic ghettos, as shocked and angry owners of some 2,000 stores counted their blackout losses and thought hard about sticking, or fleeing the battle zone. One of the worst hit was Fedco Foods Corp., the nation's largest black-owned retailer, which had eight supermarkets looted. By last week, six were back in operation, as were several other well-capitalized, chain-owned markets and high-volume discount stores. But hundreds of tiny shops-most of them mom-and-pop operations that barely scraped...
Quiet Urging. The second agreement provides for defending the permanent neutrality of the canal-that is, some U.S. military guarantee that the Big Ditch will be open to ships from any nation. A number of the Latin American governments most openly in favor of turning the zone over to Panama have quietly urged the U.S. to insist on this guarantee. Otherwise, ask representatives from such heavy canal users as Ecuador, Colombia, Chile and Peru, how could they be certain that some future Panamanian ruler might not shut off the canal to their ships in a totally unforeseeable squabble? Largely because...
...tended to favor the Eritreans over the Ethiopians because they wanted the region to be Arab-oriented. Today the Arab states support Eritrea for an additional reason: the Soviets support Eritrea's enemy, Ethiopia. The Arabs are anxious that the Horn of Africa should not become a Russian zone of influence...
...incident began when the crew of the twin-engine CH-47 Chinook apparently lost its way on a routine flight from Camp Humphreys, 40 miles south of Seoul, to a supply depot near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). As Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell later explained, the helicopter's crew seemed to have made "a navigational mistake [and] veered north at the eastern...