Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head of the army, to restore order. In 1971 Lin, according to the official explanation, plotted to assassinate Mao and seize power for himself; when his plot failed, he tried to flee to the Soviet Union but died when his plane crashed over Mongolia. Whether or not that account is true, Lin unquestionably died because his hunger for power threatened Mao. Once praised as the Chairman's "closest comrade in arms," he is today routinely reviled as one of the most malicious "traitors, renegades and scabs" in China's history...
...counter, his 346,479 shares are worth $3.5 million. At present, it seems that the only way his business can go is up. Today, about 20% of the world's oil and gas comes from beneath the ocean floor. By 1985, according to some economists, undersea wells will account for 45% of the supply of those fuels...
What scientists fear is that the Palmdale bulge could be caused by dilatency, a phenomenon that takes place in rocks before they break under stress. Tiny cracks open in the rock, increasing its volume; this could account for the uplift of land. Dilatency has already been linked to such quake precursors as unexpected variations in velocities of seismic waves through the earth and changes in local magnetic fields as well as in electrical conductivity of rocks; all have been used to make successful forecasts in the emerging science of earthquake prediction (TIME cover, Sept...
Friendly Fire is not another self-righteous lamentation about the U.S.'s tragic blunderings in Southeast Asia; rather, it is as close to elemental tragedy as any nonfiction account to come out of the war. Bryan conveys Peg Mul len's grief and rage with such purity and tact that at times she seems like a Mid dle Western Antigone, challenging the authority of the state in the name of what individuals hold most sacred. This might be too high-blown a comparison for the farmer's wife to accept. But she would probably agree with Sophocles...
...charges levelled at the excerpts are essentially right: the portions printed in Time and Newsweek do amount to a lurid, distorted account of the last days of the Nixon White House. But they don't represent the book very well, either...