Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With whom he'd be stranded on a desert island (given a choice of Al, Tipper, Hillary or Bill) I've got to consider this carefully. This could greatly affect my future. [long pause] Hillary, because now we have a lot in common. We both eat, sleep, and breathe health care...
Though the policemen still wear shoulder patches embroidered PALESTINE LIBERATION ARMY, their days of furtive desert bivouacs are over. The grounds of Amman's Royal Police Academy, where the men are training, are landscaped with hollyhocks and palm trees. And there is no target practice. "We don't know what weapons we'll have in Jericho," says Lieut. Colonel Mohamed Youssef Al Sadi, commander of a 20-man unit drawn from the Badr Brigade, which is expected to patrol Jericho. "We have forgotten our Kalashnikovs." They have been trained, however, to handle American M-16s. Whether the Israelis will allow...
...Israeli and foreign money joins with Palestinian labor and the brains of both sides to build roads, water projects, electric and communication grids -- all contemplated in the Israeli-P.L.O. Declaration of Principles for Palestinian self-rule -- and if other Arab states join in cooperative projects to make the desert bloom, the prospects should convince anyone that peace pays better than hate. "We have the chance to see Israel become the nucleus of a very prosperous Mideast," says Dan Gillerman, chairman of the Federation of the Israeli Chambers of Commerce. The Palestinians have the chance to start building a national...
...spectators at the Army's White Sands Missile Range had ever seen anything quite like it. With a burst of smoke and a flash of light, a 40-ft.- tall white obelisk shuddered briefly, popped off a launch pad and rose 150 ft. over the New Mexico desert. Then it suddenly stopped in midair, moved sideways for 350 ft. and started back down, engines firing all the way. At the last moment, four rodlike pods shot out of the tail to ease the bullet-shaped rocket gently to the ground...
...middle of the night, he went walking in his sleep from the mountains of fame, through the valley of fear, the jungle of doubt and the desert of truth . . . to the river of dreams...