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Basically, what you've got here storywise is a young man, played by Nelson, who's been away from his sleepy Florida hometown for a couple of years ("riding a burro through the Grand Canyon, hang-gliding off the Catalina Coast," you know, just some regular, low-key stuff to pass the time) only to come back to find out that his father, formerly mayor and general head honcho, has been killed in the interim. The circumstances of the late mayor's death are, of course, mysterious, so Billy turns amateur detective/one-man vigilante squad in order to find...
Meanwhile, the din at the Grand Canyon seems to be growing louder. Hikers claim that the thwack-thwack and droning of aircraft echo constantly through the canyon. During a five-hour walk from an overlook known as Hermit's Rest to a station near Cope's Butte, one observer counted 16 helicopters, 36 fixed- wing planes and twelve jets. The constant barrage yielded few moments of uninterrupted serenity and nothing resembling hermitism. "They remind me of a bunch of little gnats, just swarming all around," says Sharon Galbreath, who chairs the Grand Canyon branch of the Sierra Club. Concurs Fred...
...small charter companies that fly out of Grand Canyon National Park Airport, Las Vegas and other airports in Arizona, California and Utah argue earnestly that banning aircraft would deprive the elderly, the very young and the handicapped of their only chance to see the Grand Canyon from the inside out. With some 2.5 million visitors each year, the operators maintain, the park would not be serene even if there were no flights. "This is the last place I'd come for peace and quiet," jokes Judy Fogwell of Grand Canyon Helicopters...
Actually, the schedule of Operation El Dorado Canyon, as the strikes were code-named by Pentagon planners, was dictated by the military necessity of hitting Libya in the middle of the night. It was just one factor in an enormously complex operation that involved 150 aircraft and resulted in the launching of more than 60 tons of bombs. The outcome was far from perfect: the U.S. lost one F-111 fighter-bomber along with its two-man crew and unintentionally caused some civilian casualties and damage. But El Dorado also produced more than a few nuggets of military gold, including...
...arced up toward the attackers. "They fired everything they had," said a senior Pentagon official, including Soviet-built SAM-2, -3, -6 and -8 missiles and ZSU-23-4 antiaircraft guns. Said Vice Admiral Frank Kelso, commander of the Sixth Fleet, who was in overall command of El Dorado Canyon: "I don't think anybody has ever flown a mission in any more dense SAM environment than they were in today...