** Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs

** Vietnam War: Near Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas.

** Near Guam, Typhoon Tip reaches a record intensity of 870 millibars, the lowest pressure recorded at sea level.

** American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting cowboy Charles McCarthy ( the cowboys were terrorizing the area's Hispanos and Baca was working against them ).

** The Patriarch of Antioch and the head of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East in the Near East.

** Something Near

** “ A Total Near Death Experience ,” written by Alan Grant, art by Barry Kitson, in 2000 AD # 629 – 630 ( 1989 )

** Near Death Experience ( goth rock band )-a band from Los Angeles that was active during the 1990s.

** Near Death Experience ( punk band )-a band from Lawrence, Kansas formed in 1984

** Crossover thrash band Cro-Mags have an album called Near Death Experience, released in 1993.

** Joe Henderson for So Near, So Far ( Musings for Miles )

** Ancient Near East

** Near Dingwall:

** Near Nigg Bay

** Near Hill of Fearn:

** Near Dornoch:

** Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs

** Fast Stars Near the Galactic Center

** Near Death by Nancy Kilpatrick

** Middle Eastern studies ( or Near Eastern studies )

** Joe Henderson for So Near, So Far ( Musings for Miles )

** Encyclopedia of Chicago entry on Near North Side

** Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs

** 3 ) Bureau of Near East & South Asian Affairs, State Department

** Hilton ( near Tain ), Highland, a farm

** Places: Dornoch, Dornoch Bridge ( impressive road bridge, half a mile long ), Bonar Bridge, Kyle of Sutherland, Tain, Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness ( fishing village facing west to northwest on the east coast ).

** From near Tain, south of the Dornoch Firth Bridge, the A9 runs

** East of the River Thurso the road regains its own identity and is there linked south by the A9 to the A836 itself near Tain, and to Inverness, Perth and Falkirk.