Word: deserter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visit relatives in Nebraska, stopped to help. Lyons, his wife Donnelda, 24, and their 22-month-old son Christopher were all shot to death. A niece of the Lyons, Teresa Tyson, 16 (no kin to the Tisons), was wounded in the hip and was later found in the desert, having bled to death...
...from police, then sped on with a blast of gunfire from its windows. Five miles down the road, alerted deputies at another roadblock fired at the passing vehicle, killing Donald Tison. After a half-hour gun battle his two brothers and Greenawalt surrendered. The father, Gary, fled into the desert...
...search for Tison continued, more than 300 police officers and hundreds of civilian volunteers probed the desert, in heat up to 120° F., near the small town of Chuichu, Ariz. They found nothing. But last week Ray Thomas, 27, a chemical company worker, smelled a foul odor when he went out to dispose of some trash about 1½ miles from the point where the fugitives' van had been ambushed. Searching around, he soon found the decomposed and bloated body of Gary Tison lying face up under a mesquite tree. Unwounded, he had apparently died of exposure to the heat...
...Isaac, the wrinkles stack on my face like the inches I used to measure the years by, and there is no more game in provoking your cornered authority. You strain toward the desert shadows, seeing something I don't see. Maybe your god speaking to you. Drawn not by love, I settle beside you, my breath light so I won't disturb you. With my presence you rage like a young falcon and beseech your god that my death be slow...
Walvis Bay residents wish the desert could provide them with a living as well. Says Paul Vincent, editor of the local Namib Times: "Think how rich we could be if we could get into the business of exporting sand." As it is, the town's principal source of revenue, fishing, is slowly dying. Production of processed pilchard at Walvis Bay canneries has slumped from 1.5 million tons ten years ago to 45,000 tons now, either because of overfishing or ecological changes in the South Atlantic...