Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like King Henry, Hassan has a fondness for the bold flourish. He took over part of the Spanish Sahara in 1975 by exhorting 350,000 Moroccans to march unarmed into the disputed territory while Spanish soldiers looked on in disbelief. He gained the upper hand in his eight-year desert war with the Marxist Polisario guerrillas by enclosing almost half of the 103,000-sq.-mi. Western Sahara with a 750-mile-long wall of sand and rock. Just last month he caught Western leaders off balance yet again by signing a treaty of friendship with Libya's notorious...
...blood-red sun was just peeking over the eastern ridge of California's Mojave Desert when the space shuttle Discovery began to descend like a silver hawk in search of prey. As it shattered the sound barrier, a thundering crack! seemed to rend the sky in two, and a cheer swelled from the crowd below. Within minutes the ship had rolled to a halt along the right side of the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, kicking up massive clouds of dust. Not since the landing of the first shuttle had NASA officials been so openly emotional. Said Mission...
DISSOLVE TO EXTERIOR. DESERT...
...vice president of production for Ned Tanen; Actor Emilio Estevez; Barry Josephson, a personal manager; John Tarnoff, an independent producer; Jeff ("Mad Dog") Kanew, director of Revenge of the Nerds; and led by International Creative Management Agent Jeremy Zimmer−troops off to the rugged brush of the Palmdale desert about an hour's drive north of Los Angeles. There in their camouflage fatigues, they plot strategy and generally run around shrieking and shooting like underfed versions of SylvesterStallone in First Blood. Says Ron Rotholz, an assistant to Lawrence Gordon, president of 20th Century-Fox: "Survival is the name...
...contest begins as "General" Zimmer commands six players to guard the flag and orders two attack squads to seize the enemy's standard. At first, all is silent save for the desert wind whipping through the brush. Then the defenders spot an infiltrator 40 ft. away. Rotholz opens fire. Splat. "I got him. I got him," he yells. Meanwhile, three of the Hollywood 17 penetrate their opponents' defense and grab their flag. First round to Hollywood. Much gloating follows...