Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prospector who stumbled out of the mountains that ring the Arizona desert might be forgiven for trying to blink away a mirage. Below, on the hot sands near Tucson, shimmers probably the largest collection of aircraft ever assembled in one place in the history of the world. Some of the 6,000 vehicles are arrayed in neat rows that seem to curve off to the horizon; others swarm and cluster like a plague of monstrous locusts. Spread over 2,500 acres is an air armada that seems big enough to start World War III or, judging by the vintage...
Many of the planes stored at Tucson have a proud history, and from time to time, some have been pressed into service to meet a national crisis. During the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, scores of World War II transporters were hustled out of the desert sanctuary. Airworthy combat planes came out of moth balls at the outbreak of the Korean War, and hundreds of single-engine A1-E fighters that had served in Korea saw action again in Viet Nam. Recently the Pentagon ordered a number of troop-carrying helicopters back to the line...
Kissinger's major problem is to define and possibly extend the perimeters of agreement. At this point, Sadat cannot agree to a formal declaration of nonbelligerency, which Israel demands in return for withdrawing from the Mitla and Giddi passes and surrendering the Abu Rudeis oilfields in the Sinai desert. But the Israeli government is prepared to make less extensive territorial withdrawals in exchange for symbolic tokens of Egypt's peaceful intentions, like its allowing Israeli cargoes to pass through the reopened Suez Canal. One sticking point is Israel's insistence that any further disengagement deal be spelled...
...After the school board in the quiet desert town of Apple Valley, Calif., voted to fire high school Gym Teacher Lou Zivkovich last fall because he had appeared nude in the centerfold of Playgirl magazine, Zivkovich, 33, appealed the decision. Last week a state appeals panel admonished him for a "mistake in judgment," but ruled that he could not be fired. Zivkovich, who received $1,000 plus an expenses-paid weekend in Hawaii for his extracurricular modeling job, called the ruling a "national victory" for the rights of teachers...
...focus of attention from its context. A different form of artistic decision making is involved; subjects are not stripped from their surrounding chaos, but seen in relation to it. The photographs attempts to bring artistic meaning to the commonplace Gas stations, cars, and telephone booths rather than mountain and desert landscapes are common subjects. The snapshot tries to reflect urban sprawl; if the images seems tawdry and disorganized it is because their subject...