Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Ostling when he found himself trying to interview the followers of Swami Satchidananda during one of their "silent retreats" at Yogaville East in Connecticut. Possibly the most metaphysical experience of 1973 belongs to Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton, who was sent through Mexico's Sonora Desert one night in search of the Yaqui medicine man Don Juan for TIME'S Carlos Castaneda cover story (March 5). At one point, she recalls, she and Photographer Eddie Adams pulled their car off a deserted road for an "atmosphere" shot of a cactus silhouetted against the desert moon. Suddenly...
...speaking only for himself and not for his foundation, summed up many of the criticisms of Kissinger's diplomacy. He accused the Secretary of State of mishandling relations with Japan and Europe. "As for Southeast Asia, we, like the Romans of Tacitus, seem to have made a desert and called it peace. Considering all this, maybe half the Nobel Peace Prize [which Kissinger shared with Le Due Tho, the North Vietnamese negotiator] was about right." Hughes went on: "As long as Nixon continues in office, we can expect him to do what comes naturally-overreact in all directions ... There...
...have come to a strange and threatening state of affairs. A feudal King of a desert kingdom of a few million people-a kingdom whose vast oil resources have been developed by American money and technical knowledge-is blackmailing our country...
...wrinkled old Tuareg looked out across the windblown desert surrounding the squalid refugee camp near the Niger capital of Niamey, where he and 5,000 others now live. "This year," he said it was the animals that died. Most of us managed to survive. But next year, unless Allah is most merciful, it will be our turn...
...comets, astronomers have had an exceptionally long lead time to prepare for a thorough examination. They are taking full advantage of the opportunity. In addition to the conventional telescopes of every size and variety that will be following the comet, NASA'S big radio telescope in the Mojave Desert will be aimed at Kohoutek in an attempt to bounce radar signals off the comet's nucleus (those echoes may tell scientists more about the size and character of the nucleus). M.I.T.'s Haystack Radio Observatory will try a similar experiment in reverse: it will study radio waves...