Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said "I now pronounce you man and wife" and the last strains of organ music had faded, did it start to rain. Everybody ran for cover, the ladies lifting their long dresses to avoid splattering them with red mud. In 30 or 40 minutes the skies began to clear. "It's stopped raining," the President announced. As if on signal, people began to return to poolside...
...death toll. In Kolwezi, suspected rebel sympathizers were taken in a long line to a quarry on the city's outskirts for interrogation; from time to time the sharp rattle of gunfire filled the air. Toward week's end, President Mobutu ordered his troops to clear civilians from a 65-mile stretch of Shaba province along the Angolan border. The area, he warned, would be a fire-free zone, in which Zaïrian troops would have permission to shoot at anything that moved...
...clear how far Sadat is prepared to go in cracking down on his critics. He is afraid that the present "campaigns of doubt" could return the country to the chaos of the past, and he is disturbed about the recent leftist coup in Afghanistan and the continuing rioting in Iran. On the other hand, he has worked hard to earn a reputation as a liberal who has restored a multiparty system and political freedom after the Nasser dictatorship, and he does not want to tarnish that image...
...Tyre pocket, an area along the coastal plains of southern Lebanon that lies between the Israeli line and the Litani, is under the control of the Palestinians. This became clear when, in response to a request to visit Tyre, a U.N. liaison officer warned: "You could try it, but you might be arrested. They would arrest anyone from Israel." Palestinian troops patrol the pocket, set up roadblocks, question and detain whomever they want. The only way to travel, suggested the U.N. official, was to get rid of anything-papers, money, candy wrappers, that would indicate you were from Israel...
...implication was clear: the speaker resided on top of the evolutionary scale; what better way to spend a life than laughing at the lower orders? Such was Mencken's amusement during the '20s and early '30s. It was a resentful, mocking epoch; Americans, disillusioned by World War I, were anxious to smash icons and uncover clay feet. In newspapers, magazines -the Smart Set and the American Mercury-and some 40 books, Mencken merrily blasted Christianity in general and the Bible Belt in particular. He satirized professors, savaged politicians and labeled the majority of Americans-i.e., anyone...