Word: baja
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fullerton braked to re-enter the earth's atmosphere and began a long zigzagging descent over the Pacific. When a coastline finally appeared, Skipper Lousma cheerfully announced, "I think we're booming right over the Commander in Chiefs ranch right now." In fact, he was above Baja California, rather than the hills north of Los Angeles, site of President Reagan's retreat. Apparently he was still thinking of the glide path the shuttle would have followed had it landed as scheduled the day before...
...Baja Oklahoma, Jenkins
...Baja Oklahoma, Jenkins...
...rush, its hollow quill feathers, waterproof and ½ in. in diameter, were favored as gold-dust containers. Even after the condor became a federally protected species in 1963, farming and development continued to destroy its habitat. Where condors once flourished by the thousands, all the way from Canada to Baja California, today fewer than 30 remain, living mainly in 54,000 acres of sanctuary north of Los Angeles...
...protect the vulnerable Persian Gulf. Says Jeffrey Record, a senior fellow at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis: "There is nothing we could do to block Soviet forces from an invasion of Iran's northern provinces, any more than they could block us from an invasion of Baja California...