Word: hasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gaps in scientific understanding of the complex desert ecology. But there has been no shortage of ideas for saving productive land. Using its oil wealth to good advantage, Saudi Arabia has planted some 10 million tamarisk, acacia and eucalyptus trees to help keep the dunes from overwhelming its al-Hasa oasis near Hofuf. Taking a cue from the cattle drives of the old American West, seven Sahel nations are involved in a scheme, dubbed Solar, that would allow nomads to continue to raise cattle on marginal Sahelian rangeland. But when it comes time for fattening before marketing, the time when...
Victims Pay. This spring four men were convicted of rape in Saudi Arabia's Al-Hasa province and sentenced to death. One, a bachelor, was beheaded. The other three were married and guilty of adultery as well as rape. They were buried up to their waists in sand and stoned to death by a mob that used small rocks instead of boulders to prolong their agony. Sometimes the victims pay too. When a German girl was raped by two men a couple of months ago, the judge ordered her flogged "as an accomplice to immorality...
...Ghazi al-Qusaibi, 37, Minister of Industry and Electricity, received his master's degree in international relations from the University of Southern California. A big, round-faced man, Qusaibi wears thick-lensed glasses because, as he explains, "when I was a child in Al Hasa province, I almost went blind as we had no medical facilities." He presides over the single largest industrial project in history: the construction of an $11 billion gas-gathering project that will take the natural gas flared away at Saudi wells and liquefy it for shipment abroad...
Embree picked up a third in the triple jump, leaping 44 ft.-6 3/4 in. Hasa Kayali bounded 45 ft.-11 1/2 in. for second place in the event, as Brown's Colm Cronin set a new Briggs Cage record...