Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Third World population is literally exploding-there are 200,000 new mouths to feed every day-the land available for growing food is diminishing. In many parts of the developing world, valuable farm acreage has been abandoned because of urban sprawl, soil erosion and desert encroachment. As life in the countryside becomes too wretched to endure, millions of peasants abandon their farms and head for the slums of the developing world's cities, vainly seeking jobs that do not exist. Whether they are called favelas, ranches, bustees, barriadas or bidonvilles, there is a tragic sameness about these...
...theory when members who had flown over the giant figures became convinced that it was technically impossible for the Nazcas to create-or appreciate-them without a vantage point in the sky. Further research suggested that the vantage point could well have been a balloon. Textiles recovered from desert graves provided evidence that the Nazcas had the materials to make the balloon's envelope, and a picture on an ancient...
Rusting and broken pipelines and stretches of barbed wire litter the sand around the deserted town of Ras Sudr, once a dusty bedroom community for Egyptian and foreign workers at the nearby oilfields. The wells of Ras Sudr produce only 3,000 bbl. of crude a day−a trickle by Middle Eastern standards and only a fraction of the 75,000 bbl. daily pumped out of Abu Rudeis. But the desolate, cactus-covered patch of desert with its huddle of workers' decaying cottages has a considerable symbolic importance. Under the second Sinai accord worked out last summer...
...State Kissinger was able earlier this year to work out a second disengagement accord between Israel and Egypt. For one thing, the Golan is a much smaller area−444 sq. mi., compared with 23,622 sq. mi. for the Sinai. For another, the Heights are not barren desert but an area of green, undulating hills with considerable strategic value. Although some military people say jets and missiles make this kind of thinking obsolete, neither the Syrians nor Israelis think so. The Heights look down on Syria's Damascus plain and dominate Israeli settlements around the Sea of Galilee...
Mountains, jungle, savanna, pampas, desert and suddenly, amidst all the distances, a city of four million, or eight. Against the Big Sky of the Brazilian interior, the wide, windy vistas of Brasilia, with some human touches creeping in around the edges of the totalitarian master design−it will be a great capital in 1990 when it gets past 1984. From the plane, a fabulous fiery sunset over the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, lights coming on in Uruguay and Argentina on either side of the river. Another sunset, seen from sea level, the eye drawn up walls...