Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nature completed what man began in Beirut last week. A khamsin, the seasonal wind from the desert, blew clouds of choking yellow dust into the tortured city, and between them, the storm and new political maneuvers brought an end to renewed fighting between leftists and rightists. Before the battles tapered off and an "armed truce" was reinstated, however, some 200 people had been killed in a single day in wild artillery and mortar duels. In one more senseless scene from a year long tragedy, three mortar rounds fell on a crowd of women shoppers and their children in West Beirut...
...dressed in a crisp sari, stood in the scorching early summer heat on the north Indian plain and asked that question dozens of times in Hillaur, a small village in her parliamentary constituency of Rae Bareli. The country around her told the answer: acre after acre of sere, treeless, wind-whipped fields, most of which are worked by harijans (untouchables) who sharecrop but do not own the land. Long miles of highway are untarred. Few people can afford the 300 rupees ($33) needed to wire their homes for minimum lighting provided by two light bulbs. Electric irrigation pumps are rare...
...wilderness of wind-carved rock, southern Utah's desolate Kaiparowits* Plateau is one of the most unspoiled places in the U.S. Now it seems likely to stay that way. For nearly 14 years a consortium of Western power companies has been seeking-over objections by environmentalists-to build a huge coal-fired plant on the plateau. Last week its campaign failed when two of the firms-Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric-informed Interior Secretary Thomas Kleppe that they were dropping, for the time being, their plans to build the plant...
...Radcliffe sailors would rather look ahead to this weekend's eliminations for the national championships than be reminded of last weekend. After Saturday's Regis Cup regatta at Wellesley was cancelled due to lack of wind, the 'Cliffe team went back to Wellesley Sunday, only to finish last in the Presidents Trophy Regatta...
...Radcliffe varsity tennis team, playing without the services of injured singles player Diana Olney, relied on its veteran doubles teams to pull off a clutch 6-3 victory over Dartmouth yesterday on the wind-blown Soldiers Field courts...