Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handsome, square-jawed Gaddafi wasted little time in building his reputation. Shortly after leading the 1969 army coup that deposed 80-year-old King Idris, Gaddafi, then only 27, began to apply his peculiar blend of Islamic fundamentalism, Arab nationalism and desert-bred xeno phobia to his country. He closed down U.S. and British military bases, expelled 25,000 descendants of Italian colonials, nationalized foreign banks and decreed that all signs and documents be written in Arabic. A devout Muslim, he banned liquor imports and imposed the Sharia (Islamic law), which can, for example, punish a thief by amputation...
...comes across as cool, self-disciplined, shrewd," reports TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who has interviewed the Libyan leader twice. "He radiates authority, confidence and self-control." Little is known about Gaddafi's private life except that he lives austerely, sometimes spending days meditating alone in the desert. In Libya,. Gaddafi's eclectic revolutionary ideology, which he calls the "Third International Theory," is summed up in his three-volume Green Book. He describes his theory as "an alternative to capitalist materialism and Communist atheism." Gaddafi has transformed Libya into a Jamahiriya (State of the Masses), a system...
...environmental issue and not a question of defense. The desert environment of Utah is too fragile to absorb the kind of abuse it gets from being the Government's nuclear-waste dump. How can the nation permit a state with five national parks to become the country's outhouse...
...know it has a great future," says Desert Agriculturalist Kennith Foster of the University of Arizona. "We just aren't sure exactly what...
...object of Foster's uncertainty is a brown, peanut-size bean called the jojoba (pronounced ho-ho-bah). Nearly a decade ago, researchers found that oil extracted from the beanlike seeds of the jojoba bush, which grows wild in the desert of the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico, could substitute for dwindling supplies of sperm whale...