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...this, his last letter to them, that his Marxism had led him to a firm conviction in armed struggle as the only solution for people who fight to liberate themselves, and that he would be consistent with these beliefs. Two years later, he would be captured in a lonely canyon in the Bolivian jungle, his legs shot away, firing his rifle until it was shot out of his hands. Denied medical treatment and tortured, he died, mercifully, the next night. He would be buried in an unmarked grave. In the end, he would not even be such a good soldier...
...beneath the choppy Atlantic off the U.S. East Coast. But a year ago, some 40 oil companies were willing to pay $1.1 billion just for the right to find out. They bought leases from the Department of the Interior on half a million choice acres of the Baltimore Canyon. The tracts lie 50 to 90 miles off the coast, far enough over the horizon so that drilling rigs would be invisible from the shore; the main lease area is opposite Atlantic City, N.J. But before drilling could begin, a federal district court voided the lease sales, ruling that Interior...
With the U.S. now importing nearly half the 17.9 million bbl. of oil it consumes each day, the country needs every drop of crude it can squeeze out of the continental shelf. The Baltimore Canyon is hardly the Alaskan North Slope,* though with anywhere from 10 to 50 multistoried drilling rigs directly employing perhaps as many as 3,600 engineers, roughnecks and other workers, it may begin to look a bit like it. Even if the most optimistic guesstimates of the area's reserves (1.4 billion bbl. of oil and 9.4 trillion cu. ft. of gas) are correct, exploiting...
...home of high school Dean Robert Mangus was saved primarily by a grove of avocado trees, which served as a fire screen. Said Robert's wife Jean: "The next morning there was a beautiful sunrise. All we could hear was somebody sobbing and it echoed through the canyon...
...foreigners. Of the seven top attractions for visitors from abroad, six are National Parks: Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Mount McKinley, Redwood, Hawaii Volcanoes and Everglades. Third on the list and the only non-park is Niagara Falls...