Word: shores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weakness is an insistence on covering murals with so much background and foreground that he has learned only a few ways of doing faces. One expression represents nobility, and another fills in the crowd scenes. Pentaquod, the Susquehanna Indian whose migration to the Chesapeake Bay's eastern shore in 1583 begins the new novel, is later seen as Cudjo the rebellious slave. He reappears as George Washington, who visits the bay area after the Revolution, and then as Onkor, the wise and valiant old Canada goose. There is nothing wrong with bringing George Washington or a goose onstage...
...cold, moonlit mountains bending down to a deep bowl of dark water: Valdez Harbor, Alaska, the end of the endlessly fought-over trans-Alaska pipeline. Far below sits a cluster of saucer-shaped storage tanks. Pairs of fat aluminum pipes stretch toward shipping berths 500 yds. out from shore at the tip of long, brightly lit piers. At one berth, the black shape of a tanker lies like a beached whale being fed intravenously. The tanker is hooked to four hydraulically powered feeder lines. All night long it will suck crude oil out of these cold mountains for the lamps...
Once again the West tries to shore up Mobutu's regime...
...that is leaning more and more toward Moscow. Soviet technical aid and loans have reinforced the Kremlin's influence in Viet Nam. Fearful of being encircled by Soviet-dominated countries, Peking this year has dispatched high-level diplomatic missions to Burma, Nepal and North Korea in an effort to shore up good relations with border nations. The verbal fireworks that China has exploded over the refugee issue are a clear warning that Peking will respond even more menacingly to any attempt by Hanoi to overthrow the pro-Chinese regime in Cambodia or to establish Soviet naval or missile bases...
...allies should cope with what appears increasingly to be a strong Soviet-Cuban political campaign in black Africa. Three years ago, the Cubans helped the Marxist faction of President Agostinho Neto win a civil war in Angola against two other nationalist groups. The Cubans stayed on to shore up Neto's Popular Movement government and to carry on the fighting against the pesky UNITA guerrillas of Jonas Savimbi in the southern part of the country. Last year the Cubans moved into Ethiopia in a big way. Reinforced by huge supplies of Soviet equipment, they helped the unstable Marxist junta...