Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, the not outcome is that this has been, intellectually, the most arid year of my life, and that experience has been shared by other visitors. I would have spoken more with Cambridge faculty had I remained at Brookings; and I am looking forward to the friendly and stimulating discussions in Washington, where high officials respond to requests and will see anyone with a serious purpose: whatever time they give you is devoted entirely to your concern, and when they say that they will do something. they usually...
Pompidou's visit to francophone Africa is the first by a French President since Charles de Gaulle's historic preindependence tour in 1959. It will take him from the tent encampments of Nouakchott to the modern towers of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast, from the arid desert of Mauritania to the deep green rain forests of Cameroun, from the sight of heavily clad Berber women in the Sahara to bare-breasted girls in Yacunde. Scrupulously impartial, he and his entourage of 160-including Wife Claude, cool in summer outfits by Chanel, Cardin and Lanvin despite the oppressive heat...
Already Aswan's twelve humming turbines are producing more than half the country's total power, including all the electricity consumed in Cairo, 560 miles to the north. The dam will control floods and irrigate 1,300,000 acres of heretofore arid land. Until now, Egyptians have been able to farm only 4% of their land; the dam will enable them to reach out from the narrow ribbon of greenery along the Nile to which they have been confined for thousands of years. It will also permit farmers to grow many double and triple crops...
...Delicious. In a few arid countries like Israel and South West Africa, the people gladly drink reclaimed sewage water. When Prime Minister John Vorster of the Republic of South Africa sampled a glassful at Windhoek's treatment plant last year, he pronounced it "delicious." Americans are not yet so adaptable. President Nixon, offered a similar opportunity at the Hanover Park plant in Illinois, grimaced and said "No, thanks...
...COSVN Communist were to wear that T shirt, it would be a somewhat arid fellow code-named "R." Pham Hung, as he is otherwise known, is a Ho Chi Minh protégé who has been headman at COSVN since 1967. It is no surprise that "R" is hard to find; he is said to travel constantly between COSVN's different units by motor bike. Two weeks ago, U.S. troops came close to capturing an important element of the headquarters. Acting on a tip, two infantry battalions raced to a bunker complex near Mimot, only to find...