Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since Americans awoke last April 25 to the shock of a rescue mission turned to ashes in the Iranian desert, they have demanded to know more about that failed attempt: Had the Soviets found out, forcing the President to call it off? Why were there not more helicopters? Was the whole operation too risky...
...Chief of Naval Operations Admiral James L. Holloway III. The Holloway group's 64-page report, released at week's end, dismisses all thought that the mission was aborted for any reason but the lack of six helicopters, the acceptable minimum, in which to go on from Desert One, the refueling rendezvous...
...came as a surprise. The crews might have been able to handle the dust had they known about it, but security had kept the pilots from meeting their weather forecasters. Strict radio silence had kept them from learning that, despite the dust en route, the air was clear at Desert One. Later, the pilot who had aborted said he would have gone on had he known that...
...human development. "We can't go back to nature," says Paolo Soleri, 61, the Italian-born architect who is Arcosanti's prime mover and chief guru, by way of exhorting the band of vagrants, zealots and children of the '60s who have followed him into the desert. The city, Soleri argues, is a necessary tool for nudging the human spirit toward the "omega point," a state of highly evolved consciousness. Humanity's enemy is urban sprawl. The Soleri solution: a metropolis built in the country, and rising up rather than spreading...
...Arcosanti is no hotbed of radicals plotting the downfall of capitalism. Rather, the project has gone the way of the nation: as conservatism and conformity became acceptable on campuses again, earnest and clean-living Outward Bound types began to outnumber the laid-back dopers at the desert construction site. Says Volunteer Terry Kearns: "They told us if we had to smoke dope, they had better never see us do it. It's like ninth grade all over again...