Word: desert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film season that has been a desert of parched mediocrity, Heaven Can Wait appears like an oasis to bring a refreshing spirit back to the American film. Mr. Beatty is indeed an angel...
...revenues. Other outfits, including makers of armored vehicles and surveillance systems, as well as anti-kid-nap driving schools, are also expanding. For years, says David Dearborn, director of investigations at Pinkerton's, selling security in the U.S. has been "a little like selling flood insurance in the desert." That is changing: "While the American businessman still doesn't typically think of security for himself or his family, the American business...
Wayne Sulo Aho, 61, says he had his "cosmic initiation" in the Mojave Desert in 1957, when he encountered a "beautiful, majestic egg-shaped light" that was given off by a spacecraft. He claims that the extraterrestrial crew guided him through a number of "unusual experiences" including a military-style inspection of their ranks. Now president of an association of flying-saucer believers called the New Age Foundation, Inc., Aho this year urged President Carter to appoint an Ambassador to Outer Space, just in case more otherworldly visitors show up. So far, the President has not responded...
Probably the greatest irritant in the Washington-Jerusalem relationship is Begin's refusal to admit that U.N. Resolution 242 applies to the West Bank, that hilly desert area that he calls part of the Jews' homeland by "natural and eternal right." The hope was that when he came to power, he would recognize the historic necessity of giving up the West Bank with its 692,000 Palestinian in habitants. A year later, observers wondered whether even such an optimist as U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis any longer held out hope that Begin will change. Israel's leader truly...
...gave a damn about the Ogaden desert, but Shaba copper is something else. Now we have a new policy toward Africa: limited Viet...