Word: war-torn
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Ominous pink clouds, as deadly as contaminated air, drifted out of war-torn Algeria into peaceful Tunisia last week. They were locusts, countless millions of them, spawned in areas of Algeria where the civil war had slackened normal spray control. They descended on scores of tiny oases in Tunisia's date-and-olive country. With horrified fascination Tunisians watched them swarm over the ground, in a matter of hours eat every green thing in sight, and then disappear into the hearts of the date palms, thereby dooming the trees...
...Europe's war-torn farmlands came back into production, world commodity prices fell. LAPI's income tumbled. Perón had to dip into Argentina's gold and foreign-exchange reserves, a fabulous $1.6 billion piled up during the war, to pay for the raw materials that the new industry was gobbling up. Next, he set the Central Bank's currency printing presses to work. In the chain breakdown...
...increasingly disillusioned by his Communist neighbors, paid a social call on Diem in Saigon, came away impressed: "I was told you were a man with a martial look, but I see you are charming." Added a U Nu aide: "Our press says Viet Nam is war-torn and wretched, but we find a very efficiently run country...
...student leader in the recent Hungarian revolution will give an eyewitness account of the present situation in that war-torn nation tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in New Lecture Hall...
...General Assembly session, convened late yesterday afternoon, was considering a motion by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles calling for the cessation of military activities along the war-torn Israeli-Egyptian border...