THE SUPER TORNADO OUTBREAK OF 1974

THE SUPER TORNADO OUTBREAK OF 1974 is the second largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24-hour period, just behind the 2011 Super Outbreak. From April 3 to April 4, 1974, there were 148 tornadoes confirmed in 13 US states, including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and New York; and the Canadian province of Ontario. It extensively damaged approximately 900 square miles (2,330 square kilometers) along a total combined path length of 2,600 miles (4,160 km) > go to:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Outbreak

Before April 1974, the war in Africa was consuming as much as 40% of the Portuguese budget and there was no sign of a final solution in sight. At a military level, a part of Guinea-Bissau was de facto independent since 1973, but the capital and the major towns were still under Portuguese control. In Angola and Mozambique, independence movements were only active in a few remote countryside areas from which the Portuguese Army had retreated, and the economies of these two territories were booming. However, the impending presence of the guerrillas and the fact that they wouldn't go away dominated public anxiety >: go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution

Feb 1974 - Ignorance of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal intentions could not be legitmately invoked to justify not taking steps to prevent their coming to power. A report by a US State Department expert on Cambodia, Kenneth Quinn, was available from February 1974. This report alerted the world to the Khmer Rouge's genocidal intentions as Quinn's analysis was based on credible reports of refugees from Khmer Rouge occupied territory > go to: http://hcaa.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/defrosting-the-nixon-caricature/

Mar 1974 - "In March 1974, CPK forces captured Cambodia's nineteenth-century capital, Oudong. On Mok's orders, it was immediately evacuated. A participant recalls: ' Forty thousand people were sent in all directions. The Khmer Rouge burnt houses everywhere > www.mekong.net/cambodia/chomsky.htm

Apr 1974 - "Although my family was prosperous, when the Khmer Rouge took over in April of 1974, my whole family was banished from the city and sent to live in the countryside" > www.krmwa.com/history.html