Word: wastelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iraqi officer. "They cannot take our land." For miles behind the Iraqi lines, tanks, armored personnel carriers and heavy artillery were dug into the brown-gray sand. Iraqi forces seemed to be well supplied. "The Iranians attacked in waves," said the Iraqi commander near a place in the wasteland called Al Azarh, "but they had no chance...
...Working toward nothing, the former leaders got rid of most left-wing terrorism in Argentina, but in terms of a stable government or a content citizenry, they achieved nothing. Perhaps they are most comfortable in the presence of nothing. Perhaps their wish from the start was to survey a wasteland from atop a reviewing stand, exquisitely alone in a world where everyone else has disappeared...
...news. Stymied by the resistance of affiliate stations to proposals for an hour-long evening newscast, troubled by the growth of Ted Turner's round-the-clock Cable News Network, and eager for new advertising opportunities, all three networks turned last year to the postmidnight, wee-hours wasteland of reruns and B movies. NBC and ABC each added an hour of late, late news; CBS added four. Vowed NBC News President Reuven Frank: "If changing life-styles mean people are ready to watch, we will do programs for them...
...same wasteland set directs all attention to the actors, who usually cannot handle the responsibility. This is not entirely their fault: Sellars, whose theatrical forte is opera, directs them in a stagnant, grandiose style which quickly overdoes it, as in a knights' dance which starts amusingly and continues until it becomes embarrassing. In opera this may be acceptable: in theater it is frustrating and boring...
...tons of rice and corn, causing exportable rice stocks to plunge by 69%. Not even faraway Manila is immune: six major dams, the main source of the capital's water and electricity, may soon have to be closed down. As in other blighted areas, the physical wasteland has become a political minefield. President Marcos' wife Imelda perplexed compatriots in May by reportedly pressing the government into phasing out its $320 million U.S. food-assistance program. Citing her husband's ideal of "self-reliance through self-help," the First Lady declared: "There's no reason...