Word: deserting
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...crews the B-52 is known as BUFF, a fairly loving acronym that stands for Big Ugly Fat Fellow. But there are Air Force men who think it should have been put out to pasture long ago in the Arizona desert, along with the retired squadrons of B-29s and B-50s. Some of them are hoping for a variant of the expensive but supersonic B-1 bomber, especially in view of the new Administration's defense policy...
There are few nations in the world whose stability and friendship are as important to the West and the U.S. in particular as Saudi Arabia, the desert kingdom that harbors nearly a quarter of the world's proven oil reserves and furnishes 20% of American crude oil imports. Its importance is matched only by its strategic vulnerability, but in recent months the Saudis have been taking strong measures to reinforce themselves. Among other things, they have been rushing the new Reagan Administration-successfully, it turns out-to provide them with more sophisticated and controversial weaponry-specifically, extra equipment...
...port of Jidda and the inland capital of Riyadh, each with a population of more than 1 million today have become two of the fastest growing cities in the Middle East. Skyscrapers sprout from the desert landscape. Building cranes bristle across the horizon. Multi-lane highways and ringroads girdle the cities. Old neighborhoods change dramatically in a matter of weeks; new ones spring up overnight. The din of traffic and construction, residents complain, makes it virtually impossible to sleep after...
...division across the Suez Canal to storm the Bar-Lev line during the 1973 war with Israel; when his helicopter crashed during a routine inspection tour, killing 13 other senior Egyptian commanders and hence all but wiping out the country's military leadership; in Egypt's western desert...
Time: Nov. 30, 1974. Scene: the bleached and arid Afar Triangle of Ethiopia. Nothing about the desert seemed auspicious. Yet Anthropologist Donald Johanson had a premonition that this would be no ordinary morning. Shortly afterward, his hunch was ratified. The day was not merely unusual; it was epochal...