Word: camped
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...tiny central African state of Rwanda she was known as Nyiramacibili, or "the Woman Who Lives Alone in the Forest." Her real name was Dian Fossey, and she was a onetime occupational therapist from Louisville. For most of the past 18 years Fossey had lived at a remote camp on the slopes of a dormant volcano. There she studied and befriended the rare mountain gorillas, fiercely defending the huge, gentle creatures against the encroachment of poachers. Almost everyone, including her last research assistant, Wayne McGuire, 34, a doctoral candidate from the University of Oklahoma, felt she was more comfortable with...
...Rwandan government, it turns out, had different ideas. Last week it announced it had issued an arrest warrant for McGuire, who stayed on to run the camp after Fossey's death. He left Rwanda in late July, after hearing rumors of his impending arrest. A government official, Jean-Damasdene Nkezabo, disclosed that although McGuire was regarded as the "principal author of the murder," five Rwandans who had worked at the camp were being charged as accomplices. The presumed motive was the theft of scientific research that Fossey had accumulated over the years...
...will take more players like Chris Fagan, a brawny high school basketball and football star who spent this summer at Wootten's training camp. "I've seen people out on the school grounds before class begins buying and using drugs," Fagan says of his Philadelphia high school. He is well aware of the pitfalls, the temptations, the pressures of being a young athlete. When approached, he has a ready response. "You politely tell them," he says, "to get the hell away from...
...Philmont Scout Ranch, a wide-open, 241-sq.-mi. Boy Scout camp in northern New Mexico, 15,000 scouts each year learn to set up tents and brave the elements. Rain and wind, bugs and varmints -- no problem. But bears...
Inevitably, with 10,000 candidates on the ballot, many more running as write-ins, and no firm indication of which belonged in whose camp, the presidential contenders as well as the voters grew confused. In some cases Bush and Kemp mailings touted the same candidates. For that matter, many of the delegates have not made up their own minds even unofficially. Says Detroit Attorney Gerald Rosen: "I've talked with so many delegates who have said, 'I'm for Robertson and Kemp' or 'I'm for Bush and Dole...