Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only one line stands out. As Russell leads a caravan of 250 used cars across the California desert, he realizes that he'll never make his deadline if he sticks to the speed limit. Turning and speaking through a megaphone to the high-school students driving his pack of cars, he prepares the kids for a history lesson. "This is how we used to drive," he yells, "at 75 miles per hour...
...evening of July 4, the President flew to Miami Beach to address the N.A.A.C.P. convention. The black vote was basic to his victory four years ago, and he needs it even more urgently this year. The problem is 'not that blacks will desert to Carter's rivals. Reagan's conservative positions turn them off, and John Anderson remains an unknown, although he displayed engaging candor when he told the N.A.A.C.P. convention: "I cannot pretend to know what it is day in and day out to be black in America." The threat to Carter is that blacks...
...BODY at the edge of the railroad tracks refused to stir as the desert wind dragged the sand toward the rusty cliffs. The stiff blond hair stuck in jagged clumps to the forehead, and the two blue eyes glared, dead mirrors at the cloudless sky. They found Neal Cassady like a bloated Buick at the side of the road, when a tailpipe or a radiator couldn't fix him anymore, when a girl or a joint couldn't set him smiling, when his ex-friend Jack or his ex-wife Carolyn couldn't get him to talk...
...dispute that a very large part of the world's undiscovered oil lies in the Middle East. But with national coffers overflowing with oil revenues, OPEC countries are not making serious efforts to uncover more of it. U.S. and European oil companies are exploring Egypt's western desert, on the assumption that the oil does not stop at the Libyan border, as well as in the Sinai and the Gulf of Suez. Drilling is also continuing in Europe's North Sea, around Norway and Britain. West of the Shetland Islands, off Scotland, the state-owned British National...
AMERICA--in the form of 51 men and 2 women--is being held hostage in Iran. The Defense Department decided that eight helicopters were enough and lost three men in the desert. Congress is spending $56 billion on what one politician has called "mass transit for missiles." And in Miami, Black and white people are fighting each other in the streets for jobs...