Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black spirals of smoke dirtied the blue sky over the Suez Canal last week, and the thud of explosives shattered the desert stillness. They were the tocsins of peace, not war The smoke was from stores being burned by the 40,000-man Israeli force before it withdrew tanks and guns from a bridgehead west of the canal captured last October. The explosions were from the captured or unused ammunition and mines that were being destroyed...
...timing, and emphasized that disengagement around the Suez Canal was only the first step toward a "final, just and durable peace." According to reports in Jerusalem, it allows the Egyptians to keep a token force of eight battalions, or 7,000 men and only 30 tanks, in the desert...
...questions the very foundations of a free and independent university. Two years ago, when black students suggested that the payments to Portugal of a company Harvard owned stock in made Harvard an instrumentality of the Portuguese state, Bok said concerns like theirs could mean "virtually retiring to a desert island." For year Bok has ignored questions about what he called the "symbiotic" relationship between Cambridge and Washington, in which professors turn into bureaucrats and back so fast you can't tell the players without a scorecard. Wasn't the Government Department's holding a chair for Henry a. Kissinger...
...harsh to say that White might have received less critical veneration if he came from Wales or Idaho. Still, for 30 years he has quietly written long, uncompromising and cerebral novels. Voss (1957), a study of a German exploring the Australian interior frontier, shimmered with metaphysical mirages. With desert-dry irony, The Solid Mandala (1966) considered the lives of twin brothers, respectively a librarian and a simpleton, and praised feeling at the expense of intellect. Three years ago, in The Vivisector, he produced an ambitious account of an artist who coldly rejects life whenever it impinges upon his work. White...
Starting this week, oil companies will have to pump about $7 into the national treasuries of Middle East host countries for each barrel of crude they take from the desert sands. Once corporate profit margins and the cost of transportation are cranked in, the price of crude in world markets will nearly triple, to something like $9 per bbl. At present prices, worldwide customers shell out about $22 billion a year for the 6.2 billion bbl. of crude that the Middle East exports. When the new prices take effect, the tab will leap overnight to $55 billion or more...