Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Armed with sophisticated Communist weaponry, the Yermonian army last week swept across the frontier of its southern neighbor, the peace-loving desert nation of Argos. While the Argosian army reeled back toward its coastal capital, Port of Palms, a U.S. Marine amphibious unit began steaming through the Sea of Bristol...
...fleeing from an over-protective, domineering husband; Reynolds from a past which includes the murder of his Indian wife following her rape by another man. (She was named Cat Dancing--hence the title.) The film's spare plot, its classically alienated characters, and its setting in the empty Western desert all fuel the hope that it will reveal something of the inner drives of its characters, and sketch their liberation in the uncivilized freedom of a desert getaway. What can these people learn about civilization by leaving...
...They desert her when she is aging and broke. That should probably be the end of the tale, but a coda finds Marian dying comfortably in Buenos Aires as the wife of a rich Englishman. It is a disastrous touch, the kind of thing that makes it hard, in the end, to take Cather seriously. Almost all her books drag on beyond their natural terminus, sometimes with two or three more stops. There is always some sentimental beneficence still to be dispensed, or worse, a moral toll to be exacted...
Stretching 500 miles southeastward from the delta of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to a narrow strait that doglegs around the tiny tip of Oman, the Persian Gulf may be the world's most valuable and vulnerable waterway. At such desert-edge ports as Ras Tanura, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Dhahran and Kharg Island, scores of supertankers congregate like wallowing whales to suck up crude oil. Daily they plow through the gulfs warm waters and out through the Strait of Hormuz carrying some 20 million bbl. of oil-almost half of the non-Communist world's consumption...
...temperatures under Dubai's hot sun rose as high as 102° during the first day of captivity. Said a police officer: "They must really be cooking out there now." Another problem was sanitation: when Palestinians in September 1970 forced three foreign jets to land in the Jordanian desert (and eventually blew them up), a major complaint by the hostages was the overflowing toilets on board...