Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SAUDI ARABIA. As the Spirit of 76 flew over the arid wastes of the Arabian Desert, red-bereted troops riding in red Jeeps and red Chevrolets escorted a Rolls-Royce limousine to the airport in Jidda, the sun-baked seaport on the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia's royal guard -Bedouin tribesmen wearing black bandoleers and armed with single-shot rifles and curved knives in gold sheaths -stood smartly at attention. A team of sweepers began brushing the red carpet for the last time When the blue and silver U.S. jet came to a halt and President Nixon emerged, King...
...Navajo Reservation stretches across 16 million acres of sagebrush desert and red sandstone mesas in three Southwestern states-Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. The land was ceded to the Navajos in 1868, after the Indians had been battered into submission by Colonel Kit Carson. Today the reservation is in effect a separate nation-state, subject to neither state laws nor taxes. It is frontier country, where trading posts and prejudice flourish: the reservation's 140,000 inhabitants are still eyed by many whites as savages. But the Navajos are slowly gaining a degree of prosperity and political power...
...junta had ordered the program off the air. Four days earlier, in the small hours of the morning, plain-clothes police had knocked on the door of José Luis Saldanha Sanches, 29, a Maoist editor, and arrested him for publishing an article that urged Africa-bound soldiers to desert...
...bank of the Suez Canal. Sadat clambered up a 50-ft. embankment to visit one of the Bar-Lev Line strongpoints established by Israel after the '67 war and recaptured by Egyptian forces last fall. He told his assembled troops, standing at attention beside their tanks in the desert: "October 6, dear sons, has changed the history of the world militarily, economically and politically." One sign of that change: an advance party arrived from Washington to plan the first visit of a U.S. President to Cairo since Franklin D. Roosevelt's trip in 1943. This followed the successful...
...Angeles, the Big Quake finally happens, sundering the foundations of the giant Hollywood reservoir. In San Francisco, the world's tallest building, a 136-story glass tower, explodes in flames. Vast armies of ants relentlessly eat their way across the great southwest desert. Billions of giant bees swarm malevolently through the steel canyons of New York City, and somewhere underground the survivors of nuclear warfare find their cavernous retreat invaded by hordes of vampire bats...