Word: sahara
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...elusive. Tell the beginning but never tell the middle and the end. In the beginning, Sidney Bruhl (John Wood) is a guileful craftsman of stage thrillers who has a writer's block. It's a fairly long block, almost as wide and arid as the Sahara. For 17 years he has failed to concoct a Broadway...
...recently expanded Tahoe hotel cost $100,000 to construct and contains two baths with telephones and miniature Sony TV sets. A similarly posh addition is planned eventually for Reno, where the company faces new competition next year from two large hotels now under construction, the MGM Grand and the Sahara. In still another move designed to boost income, Harrah's has begun manufacturing more $1 one-armed bandits-slot machines that take a dollar to play. They produce higher revenue per pull and are even more profitable than the company's moneymaking nickel and dime slots...
...Palestinian gunmen accidentally killed the local Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Seif Bin Ghobash. Their presumed target: Syria's visiting Foreign Minister, Abdul Halim Khaddam. In a remote region of northwestern Africa, guerrillas of the Polisario front, which is seeking independence for the former province of Spanish Sahara, kidnaped two French nationals in Mauritania, bringing to 13 the number of French hostages they are believed to be holding somewhere in Algeria. Following a special Cabinet meeting in Paris, French Defense Minister Yvon Bourges angrily denounced "this veritable act of piracy...
Another idea, already acted on by Algeria, would create pockets of trees, shrubs and other barriers against the Sahara in a so-called green belt across the breadth of North Africa from Morocco to Egypt. The Sahel nations are talking of a similar desert project in the south...
...number of reported cases has soared from an alltime low of 40,000 in 1966 to 1,430,000 in 1972 and 5.8 million last year. One day last week 9,000 new cases were recorded in New Delhi alone. Sri Lanka, Pakistan and African countries south of the Sahara have also reported spectacular rises in the disease. Central America has been extremely hard hit; in Honduras, for example, malaria cases rose from 7,503 in 1974 to 30,289 in 1975 and 48,804 in 1976. El Salvador, poorest and most densely populated of the Central American republics...