Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shops and offices there were destroyed. Abandoning the central area, many Christian and Moslem businessmen are reopening in their own religious enclaves. Victor Kassir, president of Beirut's merchants' association, fears that "if the central district is left as a ruined no man's land, Beirut may de facto become partitioned permanently." One proposal: to bulldoze the entire 30-block area into the Mediterranean as landfill for a new skyscraper commercial district, leaving the old city center as a vast park with underground space for 6,000 cars...
...land is less of a worry to most Beirutis, however, than the potential loss of prewar political freedoms. At the request of President Sarkis, the Parliament has voted extraordinary emergency powers to Premier Selim Hoss, including authority to impose press censorship, rule through military tribunals and ban public assembly. The Syrian army, acting on its own swaggering gering authority, has shut down eight Beirut publications that were critical of a peace-keeping arrangement in which the Syrians control everything down to mail delivery and traffic. Four of the eight were small pro-Iraq or pro-Libya journals-thus in effect...
Rich Deposits. The issue inflaming the Chilean and Peruvian nationalism, which is pulling the two countries to the brink of war, is possession of the Atacama Desert's rich deposits of copper, silver and nitrates. Peru lost the land to Chile during the War of the Pacific (1879-1883). Since then, Peruvian leaders occasionally have talked about regaining the lost territory, hinting that this would be accomplished by the war's centenary-now only two years away...
...Sunday afternoon in January that is?as sheer, unadorned spectacle?an interval unique. For 70 million Americans, life compresses to the diagonally measured size of a cathode ray tube. Work goes undone, play ceases too; telephones stop ringing, crime disappears, romance is delayed and, in all the land, there is just one traffic jam worthy of the title?on highways leading to the Super Bowl site. If it is not literally McLuhan's global village, the Super Bowl certainly is the national town, and all the inhabitants have gone to watch a game on the community screen...
...Zionists truly turned Jewish history on its head. For 2,000 years the Jews, often barred from owning land and serving in the military, worked wonders as bankers and merchants. Now we have the Jewish state. The army is among the world's finest, the innovations in agricultural technology are illustrious-and the economy is a mess...