Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short if Iraq reduced production or Iran cut back more. We're going to fill every bucket." American oil reserves now amount to only a ten-week supply of imports at current consumption levels, and today's ocean of oil could evaporate like a mirage in the desert...
Thirteen aliens die in desert...
...Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument has been crossed by people risking death in hope of finding a better life: Spanish explorers, missionaries, men drawn by California gold. They come now, still seeking the golden dream, from Mexico and Central America, an illegal but relentless stream. Last week the desert-beautiful to those who know it, deadly to the unprepared-claimed 13 more victims...
...noon, the temperature was 110°F. The desert floor, which gets as hot as 150°F, blistered their feet. Some abandoned their shoes and wrapped their feet in rags soaked in the little water they had. The next night, three men were found near Highway 85. They insisted they were alone, apparently afraid of acknowledging they had left others behind. Says Border Patrolman Hector Ochoa: "If they had told us the truth, we could have saved most of them." Not until Yolanda Estela Hernandez, 20, was found beside the highway the next afternoon did authorities learn that others...
Some 250 miles east of where the party of illegal immigrants died in the desert, Douglas was the site of an episode that reflects another bitter and brutal aspect of the problems stemming from aliens crossing the border. Two ranching brothers-Patrick Hanigan, 26, and Thomas Hanigan, 23-were on trial last week in federal court in Tucson, charged with beating and robbing three Mexican aliens in 1976. The case has divided the city of Douglas and inflamed passions on both sides of the border. Many ranchers of Anglo-Saxon descent-the "Anglos"-insist that the Hanigans are being unfairly...