Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Atop a sere, windblown hill rising 2,000 ft. above the central Sinai desert, 170 American men and women this week assume the task of securing the fragile peace between Egypt and Israel. Dressed in bright orange uniforms-so that they can be easily seen against the sun-baked sand-the members of the State Department's Sinai Field Mission are operating monitoring stations in the Giddi and Mitla passes, scene of three wars in the past 20 years. The puny American presence could scarcely halt an armored column intent on starting a fourth war. Rather, since Egypt...
...obvious discomfort, after the watch system was proposed last fall, there were 3,000 applicants for the E-Systems jobs, which pay between $17,000 and $25,000 annually, as well as a long list of volunteers for the Government posts. The desert force is headed by Nicholas G.W. (for Gracian Ward) Thorne, 55, a retired Marine officer with sandy regimental mustache who for 14 years has been a globe-trekking State Department troubleshooter. One of Thome's primary concerns is to maintain a painstaking neutrality. Mission members will be required to split their leaves between Cairo...
...M.P.L.A. and its battle-hardened Cubans with some 5,000 South African regulars dug in around the Cunene River hydroelectric complex just inside Angola, large-scale fighting appeared to be over. At week's end the M.P.L.A. was in control of all but a sparsely populated desert area in the south and a single pocket in the north...
Synopsis of the opera so far: one went to the desert...one preferred her coffee black...one played with fire...one wore red...one died alone...
...peasant (played by Giannini) who had come to Rome to assassinate Mussolini. In The Seduction of Mimi, she observed how a laborer (Giannini again) allowed his socialist politics to be bought off by employers and mobsters. Swept Away concerned a helplessly aggressive sailor (yes, Giannini) shipwrecked on a desert island with a wealthy woman (Melato...