Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been arguing that Sadat would welcome some kind of rapprochement with Israel. According to Jerusalem sources, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told Israeli leaders: "Egypt's interests are in the West and not in the East. There is a lot of attraction for the Egyptians in the Libyan desert. There is oil, there is almost no population, and there is the coastline...
...settled by British pioneers from Cape Town in 1843 and subsequently annexed by Britain; since 1910 it has been governed by South Africa. The community that developed after rail lines were laid in 1915 occupies a narrow space, hemmed in by the gray-flecked ocean and the vast Namib desert...
...Dayan: We have agreements and disagreements with the opposition. The Labor Party does not accept a Palestinian state; they would not accept going back to the old [1967] lines; they would not accept negotiating with the Palestine Liberation Organization; they do not want to desert the settlements. They created settlements on the Golan Heights, in the Jordan Valley and in the Sinai. So we're in good company. As for the solution, they say they are for a territorial compromise [in the West Bank] but a meaningful one. If such a proposal is brought up by the other party...
Just as the Saints once made the desert bloom through honeybee-like enterprise, so have they made their church into the biggest, richest, strongest faith ever born on U.S. soil. It has grown fourfold since World War II to 4 million members, including 1 million outside the U.S. Church income is rumored to exceed $1 billion a year, though Kimball insists it is "much less than that...
...defenses in talk therapy, and a few believe running produces chemical changes that help cure serious disorders. Jogging literature now features overblown claims for the method. Runner's World magazine says that Kostrubala may be "a therapeutic messiah who will lead the mentally disturbed out of the desert." Writer Valerie Andrews, in her forthcoming book, The Psychic Power of Running, argues that weekend jogging clinics "could well be the basis for the nation's first grass-roots movement in community mental health...