Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ALGIERS, Algeria-The Republic of Chad celebrates a decade of independence from France on August 14. But anniversary celebrations are likely to be limited. The country, a wind-swept desert sandbox in north central Africa, is torn by a protracted guerrilla war which began in June 1966 and has led to the intervention of 2,000 French troops...
...giving the guerrillas is strictly unofficial. In compliance with its membership in the Organization of African Unity (OAU), Algeria cannot openly support an insurgent group within another OAU nation, in this case, Chad. It is suspected that the Algerians may have trained Chadian guerrillas in the Sarara desert at one time, but the Algerian government denies it. At the same time, the Algerians refuse to admit FROLINAT has an office in Algiers...
...husband David) had faced in the past year. One reporter had asked her, "Has your husband ever really been followed by government agents?" Her head was quick to nod "yes" and she said "David once had a brown Pontiac following him everywhere. Finally, when we were out in the desert. David stopped, got out, and went back to ask the driver to join us. David explained to him that if they were both going to drive to the same places, they might as well save gas and discuss why he was following...
...green glaciers is the size of Holland; one wildlife preserve could hold Hungary. Alaska's 33,000-mile coastline doubles that of all the coterminous U.S. While Port Walter in the southern panhandle is flooded by 18 feet of annual rainfall, the wind-dried North Slope is an Arctic desert that gets only four inches of precipitation a year. At Fort Yukon in the vast central plateau region, temperatures plummet from 100° in the summer to 75° below zero in the winter. To travel from the state capital of Juneau to the outermost Aleutian island of Attu is to span...
Twenty-five years ago this week, an instant before 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the atomic age began at a place code-named Trinity, in a remote section of a New Mexico desert called Jornada del Muerto-Journey of Death. William Laurence of the New York Times, the only journalist to witness the world's first explosion of an atomic bomb, wrote later that he felt as if he had been present at the dawn of creation, when the Lord said, "Let there be light." What came to the mind of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer...