Word: desert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press statements making such an equation. But while South African troops drive through townships at random with guns blazing, and while entire families are transported to bantustans where there is no rain, jobs, or health care, and while the Bushmen are dying in forced migration from the Namib Desert, then perhaps recognizing the genocideal aspect of apartheid and comparing it to German fascism is not so unreasonable...
Pelotte, who grew up in Maine and holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from New York City's Fordham University, expects to spend a year acquainting himself with the Southwest's unfamiliar conditions. One of them, a near gale-force desert wind, crashed the party, prompting the new bishop to offer some instant counsel to his flock: "The best thing we could do at this point is go back home...
Tombstone had the climate, a desert that bursts alive in spring, the San Pedro Valley, Dragoon Mountains to the north, Huachucas to the south, and sunsets that turned the land lavender. With fresh paint, new lumber and much of America out on the open road in the modern prairie schooner, the motor home, Tombstone was back in business, a going concern. The town hummed along selling tours of the cemetery and the O.K. Corral, silver and turquoise jewelry, antique mining implements, as well as the regrettable curios of the day: plastic scorpions, John Wayne on velvet, Elvis dinner plates...
...Administration did accede, however, to the Saudis' $354 million offer to buy 800 shoulder-fired antiaircraft Stinger missiles, 1,650 air-to- air Sidewinders and 100 antiship Harpoons. The scaled-down deal seemed safe enough, since Congress had approved the sale of all three types of missiles to the desert kingdom in the past...
...barreled gun. While their policies caused the drop in oil prices from $28 per bbl. to $10 per bbl. over the past six months, that decline has cut deeply into the kingdom's revenues. Compounding its woes has been the continued collapse of a building boom that transformed the desert nation (pop. 6 million) into a land of superhighways, high-rise offices and shopping malls. At the same time, recent successes of Iran in its war against Iraq (see following story) have made the security-conscious Saudis extremely nervous. By invading Iraq's Fao Peninsula last February, the Iranians established...