Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mountain states and along the West Coast, record temperatures have brought the fire season in two months early. Montana has suffered through more than a dozen significant forest and range fires this month, including a 23,000-acre burn on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Brush and desert fires have blackened more than 8,000 acres in California, Idaho, Washington and Utah. Forest fires may be the most immediate of California's water problems, but the long-range crisis of a huge, thirsty population competing for limited supplies of water dramatically raises fundamental questions about life and land in the Golden...
...being overdrawn by wells at a rate of 5 ft. a year in places, driving entire counties out of irrigated agriculture. Meanwhile, farms and cities from Salt Lake City to San Diego are literally drinking dry the Colorado River, which now peters out, exhausted and polluted, in the Mexican desert, miles short...
...announced that it would not sell Spike to Peru or the U.S. Government. Reason: the herbicide had not been fully tested in Peru. The company was undoubtedly reacting to protests by environmentalists, who claim that use of the herbicide on the Andes' delicate ecosystem could turn it into a desert. Just after Lilly's announcement, Walter Gentner, a recently retired research scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, complained that he had been pressured by the State Department to condone use of Spike in Peru before its impact had been assessed...
Today Aryan is among 28 men who spend searing days and chilly nights in a tent at one of four 200-man compounds in Ansar's Camp B, which constitutes one-third of a canvas village that sprang up on the desert plain three miles from the border with Egypt. By day the men loll on wooden pallets that are cushioned by a layer of foam and a rough gray blanket. At night prisoners are required to retire to their tents, close down the side flaps of their dwellings by 9 p.m. and not come out until reveille...
WORLD: In the Negev desert, thousands of Palestinians languish in detention...