Word: scorpion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carpeted in a lush green. The valley of the rain-swollen Upper Nile is alive with gazelles, dik-dik and brightly plumaged birds, and the elephant grass is five feet high. Over the past several years, that luxuriant growth often concealed guerrilla fighters of the dread Any a Nya (Scorpion) independence movement, but now there are signs that one of the most long-lived conflicts in Africa has begun to ebb. Last week, TIME Correspondent William Smith visited the Sudan and filed a report on a hopeful lull in the bitter, 14-year-old struggle that so far has cost...
...description remains to be seen. Right now, his government is lavishing attention on the Communist governments of Eastern Europe in an effort to establish its socialist credentials; last month six U.S. diplomats were expelled for trying to "sabotage our revolution." In any event, since Nimeri's coup, the Scorpion seems to have lost at least some of its sting...
...early June, 1968, I was on one of the five destroyers that made up the surface force during the search-and-rescue operation for the U.S.S. Scorpion. Our mission was to search for debris along a track from Norfolk to the Azores. As a result, I cannot help but wholeheartedly agree with Thor Heyerdahl's observations about polluting the oceans...
...will say further that if the Scorpion did go down along this route, her flotsam and jetsam would undoubtedly have been lost amid the garbage that we sighted. JOHN K. HOBBS Lieutenant, U.S.N. F.P.O. New York...
SCORPIO-The Scorpion...