Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of the craft, to replay World War II or any lesser conflict of the intervening years. Phalanxes of helicopters, their windows painted over, large numbers on their blunt noses, bear an eerie resemblance to massed football linemen. The air base is not some secret, Seven Days in May outpost, but the Pentagon's Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center (MASDC), a giant parking apron for aged or unneeded aircraft. TIME Correspondent Roland Flamini visited MASDC to roam among its aerial mastodons and talk with their keepers...
...Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement, wrote in his diary. "If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could in return undertake the complete management of the finances of Turkey. We would form there a part of a wall of defense of Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism. We would as a neutral state, remain in contact with all of Europe which would have to guarantee our existence...
...Giddi Pass 30 miles north. "If we stay in this area," he said, "we can conduct a good defensive operation without putting the whole army in." By controlling the passes, he said, the Israelis have a 7-to-l manpower advantage over the Egyptians. The Mitla Pass outpost seemed lightly manned. Only a few squads of soldiers were camped amidst the crushed granite and sand bars. "Why don't we see any tanks or artillery?" the general was asked. He smiled. "This is an outstanding place for concealment." He added, "This is not a border to defend Sinai...
...scene: a Brazilian government outpost called Abunari Two, on the northern fringes of the Amazon Basin. There, recently, 27 Indians of the Waimiri and Atroari tribes emerged from the jungle. Ostensibly, they came to trade for food and medicine with Gilberto Pinto Figueiredo, an official of FUNAI, the government-run National Indian Foundation, but they were clearly angry about the building of new roads through their tribal lands. They came equipped with bows and arrows decorated with red macaw feathers, a symbol of war. Even after a supply of food and gifts arrived by plane, they remained dissatisfied and agitated...
Murray Schisgal commands the last manic outpost of the theater of the absurd. He can be terribly funny-provided his audience possesses sympathy with the dipsy doodlers of this world...