Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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City sounds were muffled. The normally clogged streets were empty save for military and police vehicles. A few cabs were in circulation, but a number of them were occupied by secret police agents who had requisitioned them. Service stations, where drivers sometimes wait for 24 hours to tank up, had plenty of gasoline but, because sales were banned, no customers. Other public transportation was running normally, though the red-and-white buses and trams, caked with mud, dirt and ice, looked like sardine cans on wheels...
...importance of the Golan Heights to Israel or, for that matter, to Syria (see map). Rising to 7,297 ft. above sea level, the heights overlook the fertile Galilee Valley, one of the country's principal breadbaskets. On the Syrian side, they merge into a level plateau-ideal tank country-that stretches 50 miles to Damascus. In 1967 the Syrians used the heights to rain fire on the Israelis at the onset of the Six-Day War. Since Jerusalem's military occupation of the heights, some 6,000 Israelis in 31 settlements have joined the 13,000 Arabs...
Doomsday again! But Dr. Strangelove has sunk to the bottom of some obscure think tank, and The China Syndrome has been diagnosed as a disease of the wrist afflicting Ping Pong addicts. From the grandly atomic, our fantasies of Armageddon have apparently deteriorated, in a few short years, to the meanly fiscal. Rollover asks us to contemplate what would happen to our money-market accounts if the Arabs were to withdraw their oil wealth from the Western banking system, convert it into a mountain of gold bars and then sit smirking atop it, watching the rest of the world lapse...
Video games appeal to our love of our nation's might, a simple hedonistic picture of power to be enjoyed for it exercise rather than its direction. "Have you played that tank one? You go and blow up other tanks, it's great." The automated aimlessness present in our acquisitive appetites fosters this mindless militarism...
...hotel restaurant. "Because you're a socialist, people expect you to dress in flour bags and eat garbage," says Germany's Hans Werner Henze, at 55 the leading composer of his generation. "But I say better a Communist in a Rolls-Royce than a Fascist in a tank...