Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tombalbaye was never able to gain complete control of Chad, a country torn by traditional religious and tribal animosities. Starting in 1965 and later with the support of the French Foreign Legion, Tombalbaye fought a guerrilla war against the Moslem rebels from his country's northern and eastern desert regions. The Moslems, who constitute 52% of the population, resented the political dominance that Tombalbaye gave to the Bantu tribesmen of Chad's tropical south...
Intelligence units from various state police are out to hear word of the race, and one could foresee things like scenes from Vanishing Point, where a lone White Car took to the desert in a run from the police, or Sugarland Express, with chains of police cars seeking out the field like hounds after the foxes...
...Governor's airplane up for sale, trimmed the size of his executive staff, refused to take a $7,500 salary increase (from his current $35,000) and persuaded other officials to give up their legislated raises. Boren also demanded and got bills requiring tougher prosecution of fathers who desert their families and compelling welfare mothers to register for work. He is taking the novel step of making sure that appropriation bills for government agencies include a provision citing the maximum number of employees permitted in each agency. "There's no more important issue than holding the line...
Here, as in L'Avventura and La Notte, Antonioni's unsettled protagonist becomes increasingly the victim of a malaise that has no clear source. A television journalist named Locke (Jack Nicholson) is on assignment in a remote corner of the North African desert, trying to run to ground a story on some guerrilla fighters. The barren, blasted landscapes, the unknown language and ways of the few people Locke meets, are all transformed by Antonioni into coded messages of fate...
Locke, in any case, is lost. He does not find the guerrillas, and frustrations are so pressing that they bring him to his knees beside his stalled Land Rover, crying "All right, I don't care," into the vastness of the desert. In all this emptiness, Antonioni can make him seem hopelessly imprisoned...