Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western estimate, however, sets the number of Cuban dead and wounded hi Angola and Ethiopia at roughly 1,800. A few of the "walking wounded" have returned home, but the severely injured are generally treated and confined in East German and Soviet hospitals. The dead are buried on African soil...
...founded by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 as a daring experimental power and soil-reclamation project designed to be a model for regional development. During the depressed '30s, the seven-state TVA brought the cheap electricity and fertilizers and flood control that lifted the Tennessee Valley from poverty to the brink of prosperity...
...bloodletting between China and the Soviet Union? It seemed ominous-for a while. As Peking told it, one day last week a Soviet helicopter flew across the Ussuri River frontier and 2½ miles into Heilungkiang, China's easternmost province, while boats landed 30 Soviet troops on Chinese soil. There, Peking charged, the Russians "tried to round up Chinese inhabitants, shooting continually and wounding a number of them." Some captives were dragged back to the river and given "kicks and blows" before they were finally...
...scorching sun roasts the skeletons of jacaranda trees. The soil, dry and hard, looks like baked clay. Rivers, once navigated by 5,000-ton ships, are now so choked by sand bars that a canoe can barely nose through. Bridges cross dry gulches overgrown with weeds and shrubs. Many once plentiful plants and birds are gone, and human beings who live there are disfigured by skin cancer. The scene is 300 sq. mi. in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo, a once lush strip north of Rio de Janeiro that is now on its way to becoming a desert...
...East. For thousands of years we had a love affair with Eretz Israel-the land of Israel. During all our history, we Jews enshrined the value of the human being. Israel's main problem remains how to fulfill those values in a Jewish community living independently on the soil of her ancient homeland...