Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clean them up," says General Nazar Abdul-Kerim. Indeed, it is summer, and the harvest is finished, so the Kurds have time for fighting. By the same token, the Iranians find the warm but dry weather good for conducting military operations through passes that are choked with snow and mud for more than half the year. The general will not say that his country is actively helping the Kurds in Iran, but other Iraqi commanders have acknowledged that they supply and assist them as a way of distracting the enemy...
...here. It has defied attempts to capture it entirely: writers have taken it on, got lost in its complexities, returned advance money. How can anything linear be made of sprawl, dirty air, glitz, wealth, power, celebrities, a Noah's ark of immigrants, real estate gone mad, earthquakes, brushfires, mud slides, avalanches, floods, a million or so illegal aliens, freeways, enslavement to the automobile, drive-in churches, Disneyland, outrageous poverty, oil, the Pacific Rim, living on the fault line, heart-stopping geographical beauty, to name but a few ingredients? In spots it owns a resemblance to Lagos: vines grow...
...explains them by saying, "Well, you're kind of on top of the world. Where else could you have this horizon? And some stayed in place even in the earthquake in '71. You may get a slide, but then the sun comes out, you clean up the mud, and you're here for another season. You build a retaining wall." A journalist who lives here volunteers that "people say, 'That felt like a 5.3 or a 6.8.' What really concerns them is an 8.1. They never say Richter...
...desolate area near the Afghan border. The guerrillas took the arms away in a Soviet-made truck; when that vehicle broke down, they switched to camels. Upon arrival at the outskirts of Kabul, the mujahedin opened the boxes and carefully packed each mine in a mixture of camel dung, mud and straw-the mate rials that local peasants use to build walls. Finally, more than two weeks later, ponies piled high with the booty arrived at Massoud's base in the Panjshir Valley. Says a senior Western diplomat in the region: "Considering that we are living...
...wooden cross. Whenever they came to a river they could not ford, they stopped and built a bridge. Other Papua New Guineans braved mountain passes 11,000 ft. above sea level to make their long journey. Why had so many thousands trekked so far to stand in ankle-deep mud on a rain-soaked field in the town of Mount Hagen? One tribesman, in a three-cornered hat made from human hair, had a compellingly simple answer: "He brings the Good Spirit...