Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestinian commandos kept approximately 300 airline passengers captive in airplanes on the Jordan desert for one week. Yet the world stood by and allowed hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees to remain on the Jordan desert in tents for 22 years...
...hijackings unnerved the Administration for some reasons that were not immediately obvious. First, the Pan Am 747 blown up by Palestinian guerrillas at Cairo airport turned out to have been carrying some classified NATO documents. In addition, two passengers on one of the planes that landed in the Jordanian desert work for the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency. The two likely had a fund of military secrets stored in their heads...
Natural conditions conspired at combustion, with occasional assists from man. There had been no significant rain for 200 days, humidity was down to 5%, and temperatures climbed over 100°. Hot, seasonal Santa Ana winds swept in from the desert to the northeast. To make it worse, heavy rains two winters ago had nourished an unusually heavy undergrowth, now dust-dry. Police reported that there were some instances of arson as well...
...fear, anxiety and doubt after joining a guerrilla column in an unnamed Latin American country. On one terrible march, his shoes give out, his feet become badly blistered, his rifle jams and he breaks his glasses. In despair, Pablo, who is ignored by the other guerrillas, decides to desert at the first opportunity, but a veteran member of the band finally befriends him. Under the influence of the older guerrilla, Pablo stands his ground in a firefight with the guardia...
...spend the summer months in seclusion in the Southwest. Since then, she has been known as America's "leading woman artist"-a boldly condescending phrase-and largely dismissed as irrelevant by generations weaned on Pollock and Kline. To younger painters, her articulate images of mountain, bone and desert looked merely provincial. The milk train of history, having stopped at Tenth Street to pick up the Abstract Expressionists, could not be expected to halt at so remote a siding as Abiquiu, N. Mex. But if it could be ignored for the wrong reasons, her work was sometimes praised for worse...