Word: southwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strike was as spotty and as disorganized as the independent truckers, who own their rigs and are fiercely proud of going it alone, but the action was damaging enough. Pickets closed giant fuel terminals in Niles, Mich., cutting off deliveries of gasoline and diesel fuel to southwestern Michigan and northwestern In diana. Said Niles Mayor Larry Clymer: "I'm sitting here biting my nails. What we got is a snowstorm in the middle of June. Nobody can go anywhere." In Connecticut, truckers effectively blocked off five major fuel terminals. In Massachusetts and Maine, produce shipments dropped 40%. Hog deliveries...
...gathering desperation. The communiques that flowed into his fortified command post in Managua were grim. From Leon, the country's second largest city (pop. 62,000), came word that a national guard garrison had fallen to the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). From Rivas, capital of the southwestern district, commanders reported that a force of 700 guerrillas had not been beaten back. Managua itself was under siege. The sounds of heavy artillery salvos echoed through the bunker as Somoza's elite "Pumas," wearing their distinctive black berets, attacked rebel barricades in the barrios on the outskirts...
...unpaid bills, the President computed his net worth as of Jan. 1 at exactly $1,005,910.25. That was up from $795,357.74 a year earlier, chiefly because of the rising value of 2,000 acres of farm land that Carter owns in Sumter and Webster counties in southwestern Georgia. The President had a comfortable income last year of $267,195, including $250,000 in salary and expense money from the Government. His autobiography Why Not the Best? brought him more than $20,000 in royalties, most of which he plans to donate to unnamed charities. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter...
...students on American campuses, by far the largest group of foreign students in the U.S. (the next biggest: the 14,000 Taiwanese). About 18,000 of them received some kind of Iranian government subsidy, and most were enrolled in engineering, business or science courses at Western, Southern or Southwestern universities. Some devout Muslim students have returned home. Others are being lured back by various inducements, including the promise of relaxed admissions standards at Iranian universities. Explains Saied Moezzi, a junior in engineering at the University of Kansas: "For some students, it was like a gold rush. Some activists went home...
During the early 1950s, parents in the little town of St. George in southwestern Utah often woke their children up at 6 a.m., hustled them to the top of Black Hill on the western edge of the community, and let them watch the mushroom clouds rising into the dawn sky over the atomic-bomb testing site in neighboring Nevada. When a pinkish-red cloud drifted over St. George hours later, the parents were not frightened; after all, the Atomic Energy Commission had assured them that "there is no danger" from radioactive fallout. Some parents even held Geiger counters on their...