Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corporate America--just who do you cross, running smack from the Golden Triangle? The CIA? The Mob? While Moriarty ponders that, with the aid of two alternately humorous and sadistic thugs, Nolte and Weld are running for their lives, down to Los Angeles and finally out into the desert to an abandoned hippy enclave where Nolte once lived. But the summer of love died long ago, infiltrated by COINTELPRO and laughed to death on Johnny Carson. In the end Nolte is dead too, and Moriarty and Weld are driving back out across the desert back to bourgeois, empty lives...
That earlier clash is now being studied by analysts seeking clues to China's aims in the current war. Historians now generally agree that the Chinese invasion of India had a limited goal: to establish control over a long-disputed desert plateau called the Aksai Chin. For centuries, caravans linking Tibet with China's remote Sinkiang province had traversed the area, whose border had never been clearly marked. So tenuous was the Indian presence that it took two years for India's border police to discover a paved highway that the Chinese had constructed...
Political turmoil spawned by the Islamic revival is not confined to the Middle East. It has also flared in central Africa. In Chad, a desert-poor, sparsely populated (4 million) former French territory, 2 million Muslims who live mostly in the north have long chafed against the central government, which is dominated by black Christians from the south. A sputtering, 14-year-old war between the two sides ebbed last year after President Felix Malloum, a black who seized power in a 1975 coup, appointed a Muslim rebel leader, Hissene Habre, Premier. But last week fierce fighting between...
...city of Paris. As husband and wife, they returned to the capital, where he added her to his stable of ghost writers; his pursuit of other women occupied the time he would have devoted to his books. The play describes Colette's development of the strength to desert the marriage, despite family opposition. while she abandoned her husband, she retained the literary training he gave her in place of fidelity...
MARRIED. Susan Ford, 21, photographer and only daughter of former President and Mrs. Gerald R. Ford; and Charles Frederick Vance, 37, Secret Service agent who met his bride in June 1977 while guarding her father; she for the first time, he for the second; in Palm Desert, Calif...