Word: desert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least hospitable places on earth. A steady wind moans over the crocodiles basking on the banks of blue-green Lake Turkana and flattens the knee-high beach grass where the long-horned oryx graze. Beyond stretches the desert of northeast Kenya, baked by the African sun. In a wadi, or dried-up stream bed, not far away, a sandy-haired man moves slowly, his loose shorts and shirt flapping in the breeze, his head bare to the sun, his eyes searching the arid soil at his feet. Some 50 ft. away, sandals scuffing dust into the air behind...
They are strewn across a desolate landscape along the Maine coast like pebbles on the beach. Looking like scattered desert plants, wooden shacks and suburban pre-fabs just out of the ground with random incongruity. The paths have no names, few of the houses are numbered. This is an Indian village, changed, yet unchanged from centuries ago. Children play, dogs breed wild. Noises, the restless sea, the rush of a lonely car, wind. People are building...
...full hour, Chancellor Schmidt talked by telephone with Somalia's President Siad Barre, who finally agreed to permit a rescue operation to take place. Both Bonn and Mogadishu have denied reports that the Germans gave Somalia cash or promised assistance. But the Somalis, involved in a desert war with Ethiopia (TIME, Oct. 24), unquestionably need military...
...Flight 181. Even if that is not the case, he has more than enough grim incidents to his discredit, including the 1968 skyjacking of a Rome-Tel Aviv El Al flight and the 1970 skyjacking of four passenger jets, three of which were later blown up in the Jordanian desert. Haddad also planned the 1975 terrorist raid on OPEC headquarters in Vienna, which forced the oil-producing states to pay $25 million to ransom their ministers. The commander of that attack was Haddad's sometime deputy, the notorious Venezuelan known as Carlos (real name: Ilyich...
...using remote-control cutting torches and closed-circuit television, are slicing up the reactor a piece at a time. The slabs are then hoisted by a crane into an 8,000-gal. water tank, and will eventually be transported in sealed containers to a burial site in the Nevada desert. The task will take another year to complete and will cost about $8 million. To pull down an average-size commercial reactor today could conceivably cost as much as $100 million, and that cost is likely to soar in the years ahead...