Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...initiative broke down in March, and Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini said the fate of the hostages would be decided by the Iranian parliament. He later insisted on an American "apology" for "crimes" against his nation. A military rescue attempt in April left eight dead in flaming wreckage on the Iranian desert and an impression of U.S. incompetence and impotence in millions of minds abroad-and at home. When at last the Iranian parliament on Nov. 2 voted to set conditions for the release that looked to be at least negotiable, its act only reminded many Americans of the bitter humiliation...
...taken a mini-sabbatical from his wife and children to sweat out a movie script. Since his mother has gone to Alaska - symbolic remnant of the last frontier - he has holed up in her home in suburban Los Angeles. Like an anchorite, Lee spends time communing with the desert, but he certainly knows his way around town when it comes to filching TV sets for ready cash As he puts it, he and his brother are both "city coyotes." Lee is also enough of a raconteur and Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc., golfer to con Austin's movie producer, Saul...
Navajo, Ariz. (pop. 24), has much to offer: history (it was Arizona's first territorial capital), location (on Interstate 40 just south of the huge Navajo Indian Reservation and east of the popular Painted Desert and Petrified Forest National Park) and profit ($100,000 a year from its motel, café, service station and general store). As a result, Navajo has six new owners: Don and Rita Schwinghamer of Phoenix, Don's cousin Frank Schwinghamer and his wife Ann, from Canada, and their close friends Len and Betty Siebert of Bellevue, Wash...
...officially called Air Force Plant No. 42, and the factory at the edge of the desert in Palmdale, Calif., is a longish way from the old green-painted hangar in Burbank where it all began. But to everyone in military aviation, it is still the "Skunk Works," after the foul-smelling still where one of Al Capp's Li'I Abner characters brewed Kickapoo Joy Juice. A fitting nickname. Over the years an incredible string of secret weaponry-including the new breed of nearly "invisible" (to radar) planes-has emerged from the Skunk Works...
...land that is being so hotly contested still remains, much of it, a primeval wilderness of snowy, pine-covered mountains and silent deserts. In an area that stretches 1,260 miles from Canada to Mexico and almost 1 ,000 miles from east to west, there are still only 10 million people, hardly more than live in New York City and its immediate environs. Venture ten minutes out side smoggy, clogged Phoenix and you suddenly enter an eerie desert that sweeps on for hundreds of miles. Drive north along Highway 13 in Colorado, away from the bustle and lights...