Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Syrian-based "Palestine Liberation Army" infiltrated Jordan to join the struggle to overthrow King Hussein; other terrorists were attempting similar moves against Saudi Arabia's King Feisal. With the tacit approval of Damascus, a school for saboteurs was in full swing in the arid hills above the Sea of Galilee. Syria's leaders were even attempting to topple the neighboring socialist regime of Iraq, whose petroleum riches Syria would like to turn over to "the Arab masses...
...intellectuals eagerly supported Communist Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka's stand against the Stalinists in the belief that free expression would flow under his new regime. It did, but only briefly and within strict limits. During much of the past decade, writers and artists have found Gomulka's rule arid and intolerant...
...outer islands is their spectacular scenery. On the oldest and most fertile island, Kauai, spreading Plumiera (frangipani), symmetrical Norfolk pine, fragrant pikake blossoms and the umbrella-shaped monkeypod trees set off lush folded ridges, twisting valleys and cascading waterfalls. Youthful (2,800,000-year-old) Hawaii has arid, cactus-sprinkled, sleepily sloping uplands, rain forests, anthurium and macadamia groves, bizarre moonscapes of rock lava topped by the snow-capped peaks of Mauna Kea (13,796 ft.) and still-active Mauna Loa (13,680 ft.). Middle-aged Maui is dominated by the rugged crater of dormant Haleakala (House...
Since mid-September, the hot, arid "Santa Ana winds" had whistled westward through the mountain passes half a dozen times, raising Los Angeles temperatures to unseasonable levels, unnerving residents, roasting the hillside shrubs and trees until they were tinder dry. As the winds rose once again last week, the stage was set for disaster...
During the past decade, while the winds of change whipped through the rest of Africa, the only thing blowing in French Somaliland was sand. An arid enclave of 72,000 African tribesmen, 8,000 Arabs and 600,000 goats, it voted in 1958 to remain a colony of France, apparently content with the several mil lion dollars a year that the French spend to help support it. Or so it seemed un til last month, when Charles de Gaulle passed through on the first leg of his round-the-world tour. Unexpectedly, he was greeted by riots and demonstrations whose...