Word: deserter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME Correspondent David Beckwith, who spent two weeks with Polisario guerrillas in the desert, reports that so far the shadowy Sahara war is a standoff. The Moroccans and Mauritanians hold the villages but venture cautiously into the desert for fear of ambush; Polisario fighters as a result roam freely over much of the territory, boastfully but inaccurately declaring it "liberated." The guerrillas, though, have carried the war into both Morocco and Mauritania. Last June Polisario even attempted a mortar attack on the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott (see map). Although the guerrillas lost 200 men, including Polisario's founder, Mohammed...
...rounds. After half an hour it became apparent that the Moroccans would not be coming out to fight that day. The fires were covered, and we started leisurely back to base camp, eight hours away-the first leg in a two-day ride across the immense desert to the safety of Algeria...
...with President Eisenhower that "there is no alternative to peace." But peace cannot be our only goal. To seek it at any price would render us morally defenseless and place the world at the mercy of the most ruthless. Mankind must do more, as Tacitus said, than "make a desert [and] call it peace...
...make its inflated prices stick even through a worldwide glut of petroleum. Officials in the U.S. and other oil-importing countries kept wishfully thinking that OPEC would somehow split apart, but their hopes were always foiled −until last week. Then, at a price-setting meeting in the tiny desert emirate of Qatar, the first fissure in OPEC's united front finally came, unexpectedly, openly and dramatically...
...divisions are rooted in economic self-interest. The Saudis speak for a bloc of almost empty desert countries with huge oil reserves-Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates-that want to keep prices down and sales high. Algeria, Iraq and Libya, with relatively smaller production and reserves, want to get the most for their oil; they are talking up increases as high as 25%. Most outside experts guess that OPEC will eventually compromise...