Word: camels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What you got here," said one black, "-you could call this verdict the straw that broke the camel's back. There wasn't no justice for the black people. They shoved everything down our throats. So now even the kids are out." Said a black educator: "They wanted to strike at anything white...
...special effects wizard, Lucas fairly dazzles the eye with his optical magic. In one scene, for instance, the walking tanks are impervious to ordinary weapons, and Luke and his band of intrepid fighter pilots are forced to use older methods. Circling the legs of one of the giant camel-like machines, a rebel fighter ensnares it, and it crumbles to the ground. On-screen that intricate maneuver takes perhaps 60 sec., but to put it there took the technicians at his Industrial Light and Magic Inc. three months. Most impressive of all is the Millennium Falcon's voyage through...
...daily ritual of checking and opening the highways through Kabul Gorge, Sarobi and Jalalabad to the Khyber Pass (the east); to Ghazni and Kandahar (the south); and to the Salang Pass and the Soviet frontier (the north). Other helicopter forces-sky caravans in what was once a land of camel caravans -fly farther, on missions and reinforcement flights to the eastern provinces of Paktia and Kunar, where a spring offensive against the mujahidin, the anti-Communist guerrillas, is under...
Danger and hardship are the hallmarks of a successful Thesiger trek. A near starvation diet, meager sips of water tasting of camel urine, and lots of silence were all he seemed to need. Time and again he sought remote areas of the Muslim world where "it is as meritorious to kill a Christian as to go on the pilgrimage." He traveled under various auspices: in the Sudan Political Service, and as a locust-control officer and a soldier during World War II serving in Ethiopia, Syria, Egypt and Palestine...
...wage and price limits. They set, for example, the annual wage of a field worker at eight gur (75 bu.) of corn and that of a herdsman at six gur (56.25 bu.). The Roman Emperor Diocletian in A.D. 301 published official price lists that included artichokes and transportation by camel; any gougers were executed. The most recent American experience with general controls was President Nixon's 1971-74 program of freezes, followed by varying degrees of restraint...