Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest story about scandal in Nairobi involves two American geologists, who claim that they have been euchred out of their ownership of what may be the world's richest ruby mine by some well-connected Kenyans. It all started about a year ago, when John M. Saul, 37, and his partner Elliot ("Tim") Miller discovered in Kenya's Tsavo West National Park a deposit of rubies that was later estimated to be worth at least $5 million. Saul and Miller got a fully legal permit to develop their find. Figuring local participation would ease their way, they shrewdly...
...mine. There's nothing I can do about...
...less than was taken from my war experiences for Catch-22. What I got from that experience was some sense of the corporate operation. It was not mine--I enjoyed my job very much, I didn't stay nearly as long as Slocum does. I never aspired to as much as he does. I was not his age as when he's there. If I had one of my jobs and knew I was going to stay there for twenty or thirty years I might have gotten very depressed over it. But I was writing Catch-22 and knew...
...hospital for the disabled the camera focuses on several pairs of feet, some real, some wooden; they belong to mine-victims and grenade-casualties. An American nurse at the hospital says quite bluntly the worst problem is land-mines left by American troops. The Paris peace accord stipulated that all American land-mines be removed or defused within sixty days of the agreement. The most recent casualty, a teenage girl, is still soaking the stump of her amputated leg in solution to keep it from getting infected--more than a year after the treaty was signed. Later...
...Taxes. Ayn (as in "mine") Rand is openly pleased over her real-life achiever-hero's rise to the White House. She traveled from her midtown Manhattan apartment to Washington, D.C., this month to watch Greenspan's swearing-in, then was introduced to President Ford. "I'm very proud of Alan," she says. "His is a heroic undertaking...