Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That is the true Didion refrain. Whether in novels or essays, she is always trying to tell the way it is, always indicating the current physical and emotional temperature-it is usually over 100° outside and the climate of the soul is a parched desert...
...week by the state senate that would lift all restrictions on ashes disposal. If the state assembly and Governor Reagan agree, Californians will soon be free to scatter the charred remains of friends from the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge, under a favorite ocotillo plant in the Mojave Desert, or even at a freeway interchange in downtown Los Angeles...
...Manson, Bugliosi said, the meaning of helter-skelter was clear: a violent black uprising against whites. Manson would escape it by leading his drugs-and-sex caravan of followers into the California desert, but first he would precipitate helter-skelter by making other whites think it had arrived. That is why the words were written in blood when Mr. and Mrs. Leno LaBianca, a middle-aged couple, were murdered in their home in the Los Feliz area the night after the Tate killings...
...Manson's apparently total control, Linda Kasabian, 21. Mrs. Kasabian is the mother of two; her second child was born recently while she was in jail. Like many of Manson's young women, she came from a broken home. When she left her second husband for the desert life, she took their child and a friend's $5,000 with her. She was indicted along with the three other women but has been granted immunity in return for her testimony.* According to the prosecution, Mrs. Kasabian went along when Miss Tate and her house guests were murdered...
...addition, geologists point out that Chad is likely to have untapped oases of oil beneath her burning desert sands. They suspect that a rich uranium belt that underlies the Central African Republic stretches into Chad as well. France may be eyeing such resources for the development of her atomic stockpiles...