Word: saharans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West's most reliable allies in the Arab world, has found himself mired in a no-win war of attrition against leftist guerrillas of the Algeria-backed Polisario Front, who are fighting to turn the desolate, phosphate-rich 103,000-sq.-mi. wedge of territory into an independent "Saharan Arab Democratic Republic...
...brigade is part of the Moroccan army's elite new Saharan task force, commanded by King Hassan's intelligence chief, Brigadier Achmed Dlimi. This "Uhud Force," named after a battle famous in Arab history, has been given the best of Rabat's military machine: escorting helicopter gunships, air cover from U.S.-made F-5s and advanced French Mirages flying out of Saharan air bases at Laayoun and Dakhia. Young Moroccan officers compete for assignment to Dlimi's force, and more than 60% of the soldiers are native Saharans who know the desert terrain as well...
...military front, Hassan has been locked for almost four years in a no-win war against the guerrillas of the leftist Polisario Front, which is fighting to turn the barren but phosphate-rich, 103,000-sq.-mi. slab of desert into an independent "Saharan Arab Democratic Republic." At home, he has had to contend with rising public anger and labor strikes prompted by a deteriorating economy; it has suffered both from the decline in the price of phosphates, which provide a third of Morocco's export earnings, and from the war's cost, estimated at $1 million...
...know the present food needs of the world are not being met. But the greatest instability in food supply is in the poorest countries, not in the developed countries. According to the International Food Policy Research Institute, "the term 'food crisis' still has meaning"--in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa "where the effects of the food crisis in 1974 were most severe." But, the Institute concludes, "for the world at large" grain is abundant, has declined in price, and is being stock-piled...
...Coup, the product of this new perspective, is quite simply a marvelous book. The tale of a coup in the mythical sub-Saharan dictatorship of Kush--"a constitutional monarchy with the constitution suspended and the monarch deposed"--becomes for Updike the vehicle of a biting, driving wit, a brilliant farce that together lambastes America, the Soviet Union, radicals, bureaucrats, poets, capitalists and, of course, lovers. Being Updike, the author retains enough of his obsession with bedroom mores and manners to fill the book with ruminations of love and lust, the foibles of marriage and the freedom of adultery--but happily...