Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bowed into the room. As we shook hands before a large window overlooking a garden, a peacock screamed and a large lion walked by on the lawn. Then the Emperor gave me the news about his ancient Christian kingdom, perched Swiss-green and cool above Africa's desert heat. The news: Ethiopia has adopted a new posture in foreign affairs which approximates that of 'our great friend,' Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito...
...northeastern horn of Africa hangs a backward, poverty-stricken strip of land inhabited by leopards, crocodiles and some 1,300,000 camel-and goat-herding nomads. Back in the19th century after the British, French and Italians helped themselves in imperial fashion to slices of the coast bordering Ethiopia, this desert patch was known as Italian Somaliland. In Mussolini's heyday it became a bridgehead for his conquest of Italian East Africa. Now after years of somnolence, it is back in the news-once again as a trouble spot. The Italians, who kept postwar control of their onetime colony under...
...daylight, the tinkling of silver bells and the aromatic incense of another age vanished like a mirage in the Kara Kum Desert. A Red flag flapped on the 203-foot-high summit of the Great Minaret, from which for centuries cruel khans and emirs had cast their enemies to their deaths. Over the main gate, in Russian and Uzbek, Maclean read the inscription: Town Soviet. Elsewhere he found decay and neglect. The miles of covered shops in Central Asia's most fabled bazaar had dwindled to a handful of grubby stalls, and only a few of the city...
...Dead or Alive (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Only another shoot-'em-up, but a welcome sign of a change in the weather. When Steve McQueen, as Bounty Hunter Josh Randal, takes up with "the Montana Kid," he will be the first of the fast-draw men to desert reruns and start fresh shows for the new fall season...
...desert settlement of Hammoudia, some 25 miles down the sand track from Reggan in the southwest French Sahara, is the front gate of a huge military reserve where 4,500 French technicians and troops work among the intricate gadgets of the Atomic Age. Near by are underground workshops, rows of air-conditioned huts, and an airstrip fit for jets. To the south is the emptiness of the Tanezrouft-the "thirst country" of the central Sahara -where France will most likely test its late starter in the atomic race: a model T bomb too big for their airplanes and too crude...