Word: deserter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face of it, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris promises a Russian version of Star Trek. Russian physicist, Gibaryan, a psychologist and "solarist" to determine what has made over 80 scientists desert or die aboard the space-ship Solaris, a lab set up to study an oozing, brain-colored body of liquid on another planet. Yet Gibaryan soon confronts the likelihood that the ocean Solaris may actually represent his own subconscious, and Tarkovsky appears to be attempting the same sort of space consciousness analogy Kubrick hinted at in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Maybe...
Park users petitioned the city to flatten the masterpiece to make it safe. The city has been slow to respond for lack of money. So the park has been added to New York's fast-spreading urban desert...
...Israel is now training a battalion of mixed Lebanese Christian and Moslem troops in tank warfare at an Israeli base on the edge of the Sinai desert, at the opposite end of Israel from Lebanon. When the training is finished, they will be sent back to Lebanon with 38 American-made M50 Sherman tanks...
...outcasts anymore, that they can call themselves Germans without bowing their heads in shame. We have rebuilt our nation and we have taken our rightful place in the European community. We are committed to democratic ideals, European unity, and the Atlantic Alliance. We have come out of the desert...
More than anything else, the strife in Lebanon is responsible for Britain's Arab influx. Most of the recent arrivals are vacationers from Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states, or temporary refugees from Beirut. In the past, rich sheiks from the desert states fled to the cool mountains of Lebanon for the summer; this year they went to England, only to meet an unprecedented heat wave. Many Beirutis use London as a haven for their families and a substitute financial capital while they continue to do business by jetting around the Middle East. "London was the next best...