Word: rural
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technology not yet developed, is to be largely solar powered. No cars, no prisons and no cemeteries will be permitted. Skeptical visitors are assured by bubbly tour escorts that the city will indeed be built, and will produce the best of all possible worlds, urban life in a rural setting. Guide Ann Whitehill, 23, earnestly tells a tour group, "In the finished city there will even be pizza parlors." "And neighbors who are friends," adds Ralph Kratz, 42, a civil engineer on the Arcosanti staff. Indisputably, the project has already become established as one of the more curious vessels into...
...many ways, the afternoon raid on Stamford Farm, a large estate southwest of Salisbury, resembled countless other incidents of scattered rural violence by trigger-happy ex-guerrillas. But the killing was different in one important respect: the suspected ringleader of the murdering band was Edgar Tekere, 43, Minister of Manpower, Planning and Development in the four-month-old government of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. He is also the secretary-general of Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), and one of southern Africa's most prominent black nationalists...
Also at stake were Mugabe's hopes for stemming the white exodus that has recently reached record levels of over 1,500 a month. Whites have been increasingly alarmed by the persistence of rural lawlessness, and the involvement of a Cabinet Minister in the latest cold-blooded attack seemed to confirm their worst fears. Says a U.S. southern Africa expert: "Whites have always had a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy that black rule would mean the end of all civilized standards. In the Tekere affair, they see the beginning of the end." Indeed, last week White Community Leader...
Today there is nothing amusing about this strife-torn and suffering region, if there ever was. Its five nations with 20 million people make up one of the most impoverished belts of the Western Hemisphere. If the bustling capitals have made it into the modern age, their vast rural areas are still largely shrouded in the semifeudalism of bygone centuries. Except for the transistor radio and the motorcycle, few of the amenities of modern life have ever arrived. Village women weave their own brightly colored dresses on primitive handmade looms. Water is fetched from a common spigot, and ox carts...
...early episodes, struck a rich vein of dramatic possibilities with one basic opposition: the Old West vs. the New West. Dallas expresses this opposition in countless configurations: cattle and oil, country and city, the land and the machine, tradition and innovation, family and business, the Ewing ranch in rural Braddock and the Ewing Oil office building in downtown Dallas...