Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city, on the edge of the Iranian desert, is an agricultural center in a region which produces dates, grains, and oranges...
...effects of "progress" were often disastrous. Hundreds of thousands of peasants fled their native villages for the lure of more profitable work in the cities, leaving formerly cultivated farm land to revert to desert. At the same time, Iran, which for ages had been all but self-sufficient, suddenly had to import more than 60% of its food products. Along with imports of food came more than 1 million foreign workers: Pakistani and Filipino truck drivers, Indian engineers, Korean and Japanese workers - to say nothing of the more than 40,000 American military and civilian personnel whose advice and training...
...whose mission is to save the human race; 2) an unusually nasty villain who wants to destroy the human race; 3) two handsome young bucks who trade good-humored gibes; 4) the most huggable little robot in the universe; 5) a bizarre barroom populated by inhuman creatures on a desert planet; 6) lots of gray spaceships whishing around against a brilliant blue background...
There would be some benefits, to be sure. Heavier rainfall would possibly restore Africa's extremely dry Sahel, the Sahara and the Arabian desert to their ancient fertility and make vast tracts in Siberia and Canada suitable for growing cereal grains. But the rich wheat and corn belt in the central U.S. would probably become too dry for these crops. Hundreds of millions of people might suffer from these dislocations...
...inaugural speech showed moments of eloquence: "The danger for modern man is that he would reduce the earth to a desert, the person to an automaton, brotherly love to planned collectivization. The church, admiringly yet lovingly protesting against such 'achievements,' intends, rather, to safeguard the world that thirsts for a life of love from dangers that would attack...