Word: deserting
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Reagan has another problem. In 1976 he benefited from being the conservative outsider attacking the Establishment Republican in the White House. This year there are few issues separating him from the other candidates, making it easier for Reagan supporters to desert to Bush or some other Republican. Last month a survey of 225 corporation presidents conducted by Dun's Review showed as much support for Bush as for Reagan, Connally and Anderson combined. After a tour of the Midwest, a top G.O.P. consultant reported that businessmen are souring on Connally and turning to Bush. "They don't believe...
...large orange sign at Israel's Sinai military base of Refidim. Twelve years after its forces had occupied the Sinai and ten months after the signing of the Camp David agreement, Israel removed the last of its troops and weaponry from the western two-thirds of the desert peninsula. For the next two years, until the final third of Sinai is returned to Egyptian control, the Israelis will be stationed east of the Ras Muhammad-El Arish interim line. No longer will Israeli forces command the strategic desert passes of Mitla and Giddi, which became the graveyard of Egyptian...
Despite such intrigues and atmospheres, Yellowfish is no ordinary thriller with grand scenery and exotic characters. Novelist Keeble, 35, a teacher and rancher from Medical Lake, Wash., is out to evoke an entire region. His eastern Washington, "a country of high desert, sage brush, pine, rivers and basalt extrusion," is a palimpsest of Indian legend, the ragged footprints of pioneers and the restless ghosts of Joaquin Miller, Frank Norris and Jack London...
...perhaps 80% of the barren countryside remained in rebel hands. After a four-day lull, attacks by Muslim insurgents flared again in the northeast provinces of Badakhshan and Takhar. Civil unrest, according to U.S. intelligence reports, erupted repeatedly inside Kandahar, an ancient trading center on the edge of the Desert of Death. Soviet forces also found themselves in confrontation with mutinous units of the crumbling Afghan army; on at least one occasion, at the southern town...
...stubborn bands of mujahidin (holy warriors), as the guerrillas call themselves, appeared to have concentrated their fighting in two regions: in the desert flats of the southwest, mainly around the city of Kandahar; and in the mountain provinces of Takhar and Badakhshan in the northeast. Last week the Soviets found themselves rushing to the rescue of Afghan units in both sectors...