Word: deserter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under the threat of execution by her captors. At one point she was convinced that her country had abandoned her. But last week the long nightmare ended for French Archaeologist Françoise Claustre, 39. After 33 months as a political prisoner of rebel tribesmen in the remote Tibesti desert of northern Chad, Claustre was handed over, exhausted but unharmed, to French officials in Tripoli. Her rescuer: none other than Libya's mercurial leader, Muammar Gaddafi...
Simon of the Desert and Zero for Conduct. Nightly...
Talking about her love for Burgo, for instance, Trollope's Glencora says: "They told me he would ill-use me, and desert me-perhaps beat me. I do not believe it; but even though that should have been so, I regret it. It is better to have a false husband than to be a false wife." Raven's Glencora is less long-winded. "I would rather be beaten by Burgo Fitzgerald," she says, "than kissed by any other man." Perhaps Raven's greatest liberty, however, has been his emphasis on the Pallisers, particularly Glencora, among the novels...
...nostalgic glimpses of World War II movies - Casablanca, The Purple Heart, The Longest Day - are equally disconcerting. The film interweaves clips indiscriminately, as if James Mason as Rommel in The Desert Rats were as valid a reflection of the African cam paign as authentic shots of Rommel himself. Director Winslow's cheapest shot is a reverse-action sequence depicting the German retreat: to the tune of Get Back, Hitler is made to cha cha cha back and forth like the cat in the Purina Cat Chow commercial...
...Noting that vast areas of the West are owned by the Federal Government-up to 85% of Nevada -Bill Press, director of California's Office of Planning and Research, declared. "There is a need for the Government to get its own house in order: forest, grazing land and desert. As of now, the Feds have no real land-management policy...