Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last fourteen years of his life, Dostoevsky steadily grew more conservative. As a young man he had helped establish an underground socialist press, had been arrested by the Tsarist government and sentenced to death. At the very last moment before he was to face the firing squad, a messenger arrived with a commutation of his sentence to exile in Siberia. When he returned from Siberia, he espoused a mystical sort of slavophilism that stressed spiritual communion with "the Russian people...
...countries-Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria and Spain-may soon be at one another's throats.The area in dispute is the Spanish Sahara, a barren, 103,000-sq.-mi. piece of land on the coast of North Africa that has nothing to recommend it but 10 billion tons of phosphate underground...
...shoot-out. Quilla June (Susanne Benton) then seduces Vic before he can rape her and manages to lure him to her home downunder. Quilla's community, a new Topeka, is composed of survivors convinced that America's Golden Age was in 1900 and determined to reproduce it in underground safety. Dissenters are executed by a humanoid robot dressed in overalls who snaps necks with his huge hands. Not too surprisingly, Vic doesn't fit into the Topekan society with its concern for law and order at any cost, including that of social and physical sterility. In the end, he returns...
...loyal to Franco and are fiercely antiCommunist, leftist ideas-perhaps as a result of the Portuguese experience -have apparently taken root among some younger officers. Last week three middle-ranking officers in Barcelona were arrested; they are suspected of having links with the Basque terrorists and with a Madrid underground cell of nine leftist dissidents who were charged with sedition and jailed three months ago. That kind of radicalization, if it spreads, does not promise an orderly political succession in the post-Franco era. Said a high government official last week: "I used to think the chances of an orderly...
...dotted with desert scrub. Beyond is the vast loneliness of the desert. The only evidence of man is a narrow, two-lane asphalt road that slithers along for 20 miles through the minefields and war wreckage surrounding the passes, and the bristling patch of antennas that mark the sophisticated, underground listening post at Umm Khisheib, northwest of Giddi. Except for Egyptian, Israeli and U.N. soldiers, the only people the Americans are likely to see are camel-riding Bedouins eerily wandering through the emptiness with no apparent destination...