Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GOLAN HEIGHTS. The barren Golan Heights are useful only as a strategic barrier. Israel might retain a part of this disputed rocky terrain. A U.N. peace-keeping force, with similar guarantees against withdrawal, could keep the armies apart-and protect Israeli settlements from the Syrian guns that periodically fired on them before...
Then the Israelis struck back, in the central sector of the front along the eastern bank. Jets screeched overhead, and the eerie white tracks of ground-to-air missiles marked the bright autumn sky. Hundreds of M-60 Patton tanks moved through the golden dunes and barren hills of the Sinai, throwing up huge rooster tails of swirling sand...
Ahead of the field headquarters was flat and absolutely barren terrain interrupted at the horizon with moonscape ridges. In the distance, Israeli tank formations rolled across the windless desert, raising long trails of stagnant dust. Helicopters with dangling cargoes fluttered back and forth. High overhead, delta-winged jets streaked toward the west, and to the north, the tree-shaped smoke of shellbursts rose from a ridge...
THURSDAY: ABC News Close-up. An in-depth exploration of the coal mining industry in West Virginia with aerial footage of the ravages of strip-mining and the barren lives of the miners who make our warm homes warm. "West Virginia--Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Coal" is a savage indictment of the companies that own and run the mountain state. CH. 5. 9 p.m. Color...
Died. James Barren Carey, 62, feisty anti-Communist union leader and onetime boy wonder of the American labor movement; of a heart attack; in Silver Spring, Md. To counter the infiltration of leftists in his United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, Carey took most of the members with him and founded the rival International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers in 1950. He remained president of the I.U.E. until his defeat by the present leader, Paul Jennings, in a 1965 election...