Word: northward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Hurricane David made its deadly passage through the Caribbean two weeks ago, a successor storm named Frederic dawdled not far behind. Last week, Fred suddenly turned ugly and churned northward, forcing half a million people to flee a 100-mile stretch of the coast, from Gulfport, Miss., to Pensacola...
...Efforts to cap the gusher by pumping chemicals and steel balls into the well throttled the flow from 4,500 tons a day to 3,000 tons, but failed to stop it. An oil slick 60 to 70 miles long gradually formed around the well and started to creep northward. Part of the slick was turned back off Tampico, Mexico, by a countercurrent. The rest broke down into large flat pancakes, mousselike patches and thin iridescent streamers...
...caused heavy damage in several Lebanese cities and towns, including Tyre. According to the Palestinians, Israeli planes dropped U.S.-made cluster bombs on the villages of Sarafand and Arnoun. In all, at least 50 people were killed in the Israeli attacks. Soon thousands of Lebanese were trying to flee northward, as they had done during the fighting a year ago, taking with them a few belongings and some cattle, sheep or goats. After four days, the United Nations forces in Lebanon arranged a cease-fire and at week's end it seemed to be holding...
...earth that separates two more widely divergent standards of living, and conflicts over trade, illegal immigration and drug smuggling have soured relations between the neighboring nations. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger made matters worse by his high-handed treatment of Mexican envoys (see following story). Then, to stem the northward flow of illegal immigrants (nearly 1 million last year), U.S. authorities proposed sealing off parts of the frontier with sharpened steel-mesh fencing. Mexican newspapers indignantly accused the U.S. of raising 'the tortilla curtain...
...have full confidence in Chilean justice," Townley protested. "What the U.S. is trying to do through me is carry out a political attack on the government of Chile." But while Townley's lawyers were still challenging the U.S. request, Chilean police hustled the American onto a northward-bound plane and told the FBI to take him away. The FBI agents had to depart in such a rush that they left their suitcases behind in a Santiago hotel. Last week Townley was arraigned in Maryland as a material witness and ordered held without bail until he could testify before...