Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children's movies--is "non-violent and non-sexist." During next week's Washington's Birthday school vacation, Mario Thomas's Emmy award-winning Free to Be...You and Me will be shown daily for $.50. On the regular program beginning tonight is Bunuel's Simon of the Desert, among other things, a film from the director's Mexican period about a Christian mystic who moves to the top of a high pillar in the middle of the desert, hauling up his food by ropes, to commune with The Lord. As vicious about Catholicism as usual, with Bunuel's only...
...tramps along the West's interstate highways, picking up aluminum beer and soft-drink cans. "Ain't people nasty the way they throw junk all over the roadside?" said Lee last week, taking a break along the shoulder of Highway 15 in the middle of the Mojave Desert. He shuffled a half mile back down the road to a camper where his wife Grace, 72, was watching over a dozen sacks and cardboard cartons brimful with cans. "It's just terrible to see this litter," she said. "But picking it up is fun. We get good exercise...
...televised White House interview with NBC, the President ignored an opportunity to deny rumors that the U.S. was training a force for desert fighting in the event of another oil embargo. "I don't think that I ought to talk about any particular military contingency plans," Ford said, thus giving some substance to rumors that three special divisions were being organized for this purpose. The Pentagon admits that three divisions are being created by using formerly chairborne soldiers, but denies that they are intended for any such specific duty...
...Said Rabin: "We do not seek war, but if war is forced upon us, the Arabs will find a stronger Israel than they think they might find." Rabin rejected Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's call for an Israeli withdrawal within 90 days on three fronts-the Sinai desert, the Golan Heights and the West Bank of the Jordan River. Deadlines have "no validity whatsoever for Israel," the Premier said...
...bound classics with the cut India-leaf pages are hopelessly water-stained-those that did not sink on the coral reef coming in. And so the hypothetical question has become not what one Great Book but what one Great Reader would you want to be shipwrecked with on a desert island. For the past four decades, the right answer for the literate Robinson Crusoe has been Cyril Connolly, who died last November...