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Dallas (CBS). Will Brave Bobby and Barren Pamela adopt the love child of J.R. and his dead mistress Kristin? Enter the Ewing labyrinth and be hooked or be damned...
...scene in the barren Egyptian desert resembled an elegant military safari from the country's British imperial days-until the explosions began. A mixed group of some 300 U.S. and Egyptian army officers and accompanying gold-braided foreign military attachés lounged under black and red cloth tents in the chilly winter air near Wâdi el Natrûn, an oasis about 78 miles northwest of Cairo. Turbaned waiters, wearing flowing, blue-gray robes, or gallabiyas, served coffee, tea and box lunches...
...visited one of the homelands that has received independence, Bophuthatswana. Garbage lay scattered over barren fields dotted with corrugated iron shacks. Our bus passed another jammed with blacks returning home. A cage surrounded the driver. The Sun City hotel and casino rises majestically out of this wasteland...
Today the land around Patallacta is powder-dry and barren. Fifteen families barely scratch a living from the soil, and almost nothing can be grown for the entire five-month dry season. How, then, did this unforgiving land once provide for so many people? The answer is etched into the granite hills around the valley: dozens of stone canals snake their way down from glacier-fed streams in the upper altitudes...
...loan from Kendall to pay workers to fix a canal near his mountainside plot. "The fact that he would ask indicates the idea can be sold," says Kendall. "If you got 100 men to work three months together in rebuilding a system, you could turn large tracts of barren land into production...