Word: waterless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wait more than 30 years to decide that the barren, waterless island is "sacred"? And what would they do with it? Return to human sacrifices, beginning with the U.S. military...
Mandatory rationing now affects 68 California cities and towns, including Los Angeles. Backed up by voluntary measures, consumption fell 23% in L.A. alone in July. Some homeowners are installing waterless toilets, which use a mineral-oil base that is constantly recycled and filtered through a 500-gal. waste tank under the house; every year a truck pumps out the refuse. Others have attached fiberglass tanks full of compressed air to cut down on the number of gallons of water required to flush a toilet. People are also affixing gadgets to their showers and faucets to decrease the flow. Many California...
...turbaned monk squatted in a waterless pool in New Delhi, held a match to his gasoline-soaked saffron robes and burned himself to death. The day before, a silent protest march by his fellow believers had turned into a riot. Demonstrators shouted "Death to the police!" and 238 of them were arrested in a flurry of tear gas and lath-is (long sticks...
TIME has learned that Israel has sent elite commando units more than 1,200 miles beyond its borders to occupy several uninhabited islands within 85 miles of Bab el Mandeb. It has set up a radio and radar base on one of them, Zuqar, a 70-sq.-mi. waterless chunk of rock and sand in the Hanish group only 20 miles off the coast of Yemen. (Yemen claims sovereignty over Great Hanish, but the other ten islands in the group are officially unowned.) The Israeli commandos speak fluent Arabic, wear no uniforms and fly no flags. They are rotated every...
...billion-is not one of the prime worries of MXC'S eleven-man steering committee, which is confident that private industry will be willing to foot most of the bill. Industrialists see MXC as a perfect test center for their new products and processes-everything from waterless toilets to people movers and charge accounts controlled instantaneously by computers. The primary financial objections so far have come from the Minnesota state legislature. Some senators wonder if the money needed to build MXC would not be better spent in helping existing cities and rural areas with their problems. But Otto Silha...