Word: crescent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, poppy growers in the Golden Crescent, which cuts across Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, rushed to exploit the high prices. But when the rains returned to the Golden Triangle in 1980, bumper crops followed, and suddenly growers from Iran to Thailand were saddled with a burgeoning surplus. Prices for high-grade heroin are still falling, as Asian dealers try to undercut one another in a multimillion-dollar scramble for new users. Hong Kong's 45,000 addicts can now shoot up for about the price of a movie ticket, $3. In Malaysia, a fix costs less than...
...awful sounds of battle shrieked through Beirut last week, but this time the fighting reached its bloodiest peak since last summer. Day and night, the clatter of machine-gun fire and the thump of shells could be heard not just in the city but throughout a 30-mile crescent stretching from Jounieh in the north to the mountain district of Kharroub. In the suburbs of Beirut, the Lebanese Army clashed with Shi'ite militiamen. In the hills east of the city, government soldiers fought forces loyal to Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt. At the southern tip of the Chouf Mountains...
DECISION REVERSED. For Kristi, 17; Michael, 14; and Dawn Meadows, 13, children of the late Karen Silkwood (eponymous heroine Of the movie Silkwood), alleged victim of radiation at the Kerr-McGee nuclear plant near Crescent, Okla.; by a 5-to-4 U.S. Supreme Court affirmation of a $10 million award won in a 1979 negligence suit against her employer, but overturned by a federal appeals court. Kerr-McGee plans to challenge the award...
Plutonium was handled in the Crescent, Okla., plant that employed Karen Silkwood; that this woman, whom they cannot show as anything but neurotically self-centered and very messy both in her private life and in her relationship with peers and superiors at work, for reasons of her own decided to take a leading role in her union's campaign to remedy these defects; that thereafter she began to suffer from radioactive contamination, which may have been caused by someone in the company, but could possibly have been self-induced; that on the night of Nov. 13,1974, she lost...
...Grenada's other neighbors in the crescent of Caribbean island nations, the coup was particularly bad news. Afflicted though many of them are with depressed economies, until now their citizens have been spared violent Latin American-style takeovers. At their meeting in Trini dad, the foreign ministers and heads of state of CARICOM, the organization of Caribbean nations, pondered the crisis in Grenada but understood full well they could not undo the damage...