Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arguments that he should cut off oil to nations that supported Israel. In the energy-crisis years of the '70s, however, oil and politics not only mix; they form an entirely new -and dangerously explosive-element in the equation of world power. That reality was made all too plain last week by Feisal himself. Speaking more strongly than ever before, he very clearly warned the U.S. that its support of Israel might be at the price of Saudi oil -oil that the U.S. will desperately need in the decade ahead...
...Throughout history, princes and plain folk alike have searched for a true aphrodisiac, a substance to heighten sexual desire. Now researchers have found one that does just the opposite. They have developed a drug called ben-peridol, which, they claim, reduces or completely abolishes sexual desire. Doctors tested the drug successfully at London's Wormwood Scrubs prison, and believe it could prove valuable for treating sexual offenders. They also apparently feel that many law-abiding Britons are ready for a real version of the fictional "Anti-Sex League" in George Orwell's novel, 1984. Starting this month, they...
...Accident." Solzhenitsyn's fear, he made plain in an interview with the Associated Press and Le Monde, is neither metaphorical nor paranoid. "During the winter of 1971-72," he said, "I was warned through several channels that they [the KGB, the Russian secret police] were preparing to kill me in a 'car accident.' But here we have a peculiarity, I would almost say an advantage of our social structure: not a single hair falls or will fall from my head or from the head of members of my family without the knowledge or approval...
...vast land nearly three times the size of Western Europe, Argentina did not begin to develop until the 19th century, when there was large-scale immigration from Western Europe. On the pampas, a flat plain stretching out in a semicircle from Buenos Aires, the immigrants found the richest, deepest topsoil in the world. It was ideal for raising cattle and crops, and still is. The number of cattle on the hoof today is more than double the country's population of 25 million...
...Kenneth Kaunda's central government, but Lewanika is a realist and gave up the battle. A former mine clerk and union organizer, Lewanika twice a year leads one of Africa's most impressive ceremonies-the journey of the Lozis from the 4,000-sq.-mi. flood plain (where they farm and fish from July to March) to the higher lands at the forest's edge. As the waters rise, the Lozis begin ritualistically imploring their King to move; when the new moon appears, princes and counselors paddle the royal barge carrying the King away from his summer...