Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process of evicting settlers who are intent on stopping the final withdrawal from the Sinai. Access to the area was cut off last week to forestall protest demonstrations. Israeli troops moved on five settlements, forcibly evicting 123 squatters. As an Israeli general put it, "The battle for the Sinai desert, which started 15 years ago, is finally coming...
Salt routes crisscrossed the globe. One of the most traveled led from Morocco south across the Sahara to Timbuktu. Ships bearing salt from Egypt to Greece traversed the Mediterranean and the Aegean. Herodotus describes a caravan route that united the salt oases of the Libyan desert. Venice's glittering wealth was attributable not so much to exotic spices as to commonplace salt, which Venetians exchanged in Constantinople for the spices of Asia. In 1295, when he first returned from Cathay, Marco Polo delighted the Doge with tales of the prodigious value of salt coins bearing the seal...
...Afghan frontiers meet to form a triangular no man's land. For centuries, the mountainous border area had been controlled by fierce Baluchi tribesmen, who freely traverse the borders of the three countries. The area is also used by opium smugglers and roamed by packs of wild, emaciated desert dogs...
Plastic toys, combs, pornographic magazines, and shredded tires are all common in the roadside ditches. "Sometimes underpants from both sexes appeared." Shapiro writes, adding commonsensically that the offensive items were "rather frail and gamy items after exposure to desert weather...
...happen?" Gur explained that a significant number of Israeli tanks were lost on the way to the battle by being run too fast in the desert after having been inadequately maintained. "Obviously," Dinitz admitted, "something went wrong...